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309. Ernest Leonard Wall20 was born in 1900 in [Howell County], Missouri. He was born in 1900. He appeared in the census in 1900 in Howell County, Missouri. Ernest L. 5/12 son m m w Feb 1900 MO TN MO He appeared in the census in 1910 in Howell County, Missouri. Ernest L. 10 son m s w farm laborer MO TN MO He appeared in the census in 1930 in Butler County, Kansas. Ernest L. 30 son m s w smithman MO OH MO He died in 1962. Another note regarding Grandpa Ernest Leonard WALL. He received the Carnegie Presidential Medal of Honor from President Eisenhower for saving the life of a young girl who had crawled onto the railroad tracks. Grandpa WALL was a train conductor for Santa Fe Railroad and leaped from the moving train grabbed the girl off the tracks and proceeded to fall into a stone quarry. He experienced health problems for the remainder of his life though he died from Emphysema caused by being a lifetime smoker. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor 5 November 1952. He and Grandma WALL are buried Walnut Valley Memorial Park, El Dorado, Butler Co. Kansas This is the same Medal of Honor the passengers of the plane that went down in Pennsylvania during the 11 Sept 2001 attack on America by the Bin Laden network received posthumously. (James E. Wall)

Ernest Leonard Wall and Jeanetta Mae Farrar were married about 1932. Jeanetta Mae Farrar20 was born in 1912. She died in 1998. Ernest Leonard Wall and Jeanetta Mae Farrar had the following children:

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Edward Ernest Wall.

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Mary Lou Wall.