Leonard Martin MeltonAge: 80 years1867–1948
- Name
- Leonard Martin Melton
- Given names
- Leonard Martin
- Surname
- Melton
 Birth | October 30, 1867 |
 Marriage | Mary A Clark — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 14 months)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 10 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 30 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
 Birth of a son#1 | Joseph Blanford Melton May 1, 1906 (Age 38 years) |
| Birth of a son #2 | Joseph Leonard Melton Melton August 9, 1907 (Age 39 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 48 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 49 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 50 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Jean Melton March 5, 1927 (Age 59 years) |
| Death of a wife | Mary A Clark January 12, 1929 (Age 61 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 61 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Marriage | Willie Fossie Shemwell — View this family December 23, 1933 (Age 66 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 74 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 78 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
 Death | June 18, 1948 (Age 80 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Saint Louis Cemetery |
| Family with Mary A Clark |
| himself |
Leonard Martin Melton Birth: October 30, 1867 — Daviess, Kentucky, United States Death: June 18, 1948 — Henderson, Kentucky, United States |
| wife |
Mary A Clark Birth: 1871 — Daviess, Kentucky, United States Death: January 12, 1929 — Henderson, Kentucky, United States |
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Marriage: — |
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| son |
Joseph Blanford Melton Birth: May 1, 1906 38 35 Death: August 20, 1983 — Henderson, Kentucky, United States |
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15 months son |
Joseph Leonard Melton Melton Birth: August 9, 1907 39 36 Death: August 2, 1982 — Henderson, Kentucky, United States |
| Family with Willie Fossie Shemwell |
| himself |
Leonard Martin Melton Birth: October 30, 1867 — Daviess, Kentucky, United States Death: June 18, 1948 — Henderson, Kentucky, United States |
| wife |
Willie Fossie Shemwell Birth: January 20, 1884 39 38 — Tennessee, United States Death: January 1, 1967 — Henderson, Kentucky, United States |
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Marriage: December 23, 1933 — |