Brief Life History of Leroy Alexander
When Leroy Alexander Bird was born on 9 December 1911, in Jefferson, Chesterfield, South Carolina, United States, his father, Leonard Leroy Bird, was 33 and his mother, Rena Melton, was 27. He lived in Largo, Pinellas, Florida, United States for about 18 years. He died on 24 July 1985, in Jefferson, Ashe, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Piney Creek, Alleghany, North Carolina, United States.
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- Leroy A Bird in household of Rena M Bird, "United States Census, 1930"
- Leroy Alexander Bird, "North Carolina Deaths and Burials, 1898-1994"
- L A Bird in entry for Miss Jennie D Bird, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"
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1912
Historical Boundaries: 1912: Pinellas, Florida, United States
1931
The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: nickname for a young or a small and slender person, from Middle English brid, bird, burd (Old English bird, brid, perhaps also byrd) ‘bird, young bird’, also ‘young man, young woman, child’.
Irish: Anglicized form of a number of Irish names erroneously thought to contain the element éan ‘bird’, in particular Ó hÉinigh (see Heagney ), Ó hÉanna (see Heaney ), Ó hÉanacháin (see Heneghan ), and Mac an Déaghanaigh (see McEneaney ).
Americanized form (translation into English) of various European surnames meaning ‘bird’, as for example German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) Vogel , French Loiseau , Czech Ptáček (see Ptacek ) and Pták, Polish Ptak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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