Brief Life History of Emery Stapleton
When Emery Stapleton Leonard was born on 31 December 1906, in Georgia, United States, his father, William Harvey Leonard, was 40 and his mother, Carrie Bass, was 21. He married Miriam Pearl Myers in 1941, in Escambia, Florida, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Milledgeville, Baldwin, Georgia, United States in 1910. He died on 5 August 1977, in Escambia, Florida, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Pensacola, Escambia, Florida, United States.
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- Emory S Leonard in household of William H Leonard, "United States Census, 1910"
- Florida Marriage Indexes, 1822-1875 and 1927-2001
- Emery Stapleton Leonard, "Florida, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945"
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1907 · Not for profit elections
The first act prohibiting monetary contributions to political campaigns by major corporations.
1914 · Florida Involvement in World War I
Florida contributed to World War I in several ways. The state's open land and warm climate made for a great military training location. Additional technological and agricultural developments took place in Florida as well. Roughly 42,030 Floridians joined the troops during 1917 and 1918.
1927
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Name Meaning
English; French (Léonard); Walloon (mainly Léonard): from a personal name composed of the ancient Germanic elements leo ‘lion’ (a late addition to the vocabulary of ancient Germanic name elements, taken from Latin) + hard ‘hardy, brave, strong’, which was taken to England by the Normans. A Christian saint of this name, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th century, but about whom nothing is known except for a largely fictional life dating from half a millennium later, was popular throughout Europe in the early Middle Ages and was regarded as the patron of peasants and horses. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Italian Leonardo , Polish, Slovenian, etc. Lenart or Lenard , and probably also their derivatives. Compare Larned , Learned , and Yenor .
Irish (Fermanagh): adopted as an English equivalent of Gaelic Mac Giolla Fhionáin or of Langan .
German: variant of Leonhard , cognate with 1 above.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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