Brief Life History of Burl Leo
When Burl Leo Brown was born on 20 October 1898, in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States, his father, James Monroe Brown, was 36 and his mother, America Haseltine Pack, was 30. He married Lela Vaul Simonds on 8 March 1919, in Polk, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Shoal Creek Township, Cherokee, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Gaston, North Carolina, United States in 1985. He died on 4 March 1985, in Gastonia Township, Gaston, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Gaston Memorial Park, Gastonia, Gaston, North Carolina, United States.
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- Leo Brown, "United States Census, 1900"
- Burl Brown, "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
- Burl Leo Brown, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1899
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Name Meaning
English, Scottish, and Irish: generally a nickname referring to the color of the hair or complexion, Middle English br(o)un, from Old English brūn or Old French brun. This word is occasionally found in Old French, Middle English and Old Norse as a personal name or byname (Middle English personal name Brun, Broun, ancient Germanic Bruno, Old English Brūn, or possibly Old Norse Brúnn or Brúni). Brun- was also an ancient Germanic name-forming element. Some instances of Old English Brūn as a personal name may therefore be short forms of compound names such as Brūngar, Brūnwine, etc. As a Scottish and Irish name, it sometimes represents a translation of Gaelic Donn (see below). Brown (including in the senses below) is the fourth most frequent surname in the US. It is also very common among African Americans and Native Americans (see also 5 below).
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Ó Duinn (see Dunn ) or for any of the many Irish and Scottish Gaelic names containing the element donn ‘brown-haired’ (also meaning ‘chieftain’), for example Donahue .
Irish: phonetic Anglicization of Mac an Bhreitheamhnaigh; see Breheny .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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