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Cecil Gilbert Leek 1899 - 1982

Cecil Gilbert Leek of Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, FL was born on June 12, 1899 in Lower Bank, Burlington County, New Jersey United States to Charles Platt Leek and Edith Young. He had siblings Olga Winona Leek and John Everett Leek. Cecil Leek married Lillian Warner, and died at age 83 years old on October 9, 1982 in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, FL.

Cecil Gilbert Leek

Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, FL 33309

June 12, 1899

Lower Bank, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States

October 9, 1982

Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida, United States

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Cecil served in the military during World War 1. He wed on March 17,1920 in Atlantic County, N.J. to Lillian Warner and had 2 children.
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1899

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June 12, 1899

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Lower Bank, Burlington County, New Jersey United States

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October 9, 1982

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Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida United States
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Cecil Gilbert Leek lived 17 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 83.

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In 1899, in the year that Cecil Gilbert Leek was born, the meaning of Chinese "oracle bones" was rediscovered. Farmers in China had been turning up the bones in their fields for generations but most often they were ground up and sold as medicine. The chancellor of the Imperial Academy and a friend noticed, before they ground the bones, that they had writing. The bones had been used around the second millennium BC for divination.

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In 1900, Cecil was only 1 year old when Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. NAWSA was created by Anthony in 1890 in order to fight for the right of women to vote in the United States. Membership in NAWSA began at 7,000 and in the decades of the struggle - women didn't get the right to vote until 1920 - membership rose to 2 million.

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