Avery LEONARD^{[1, 2]}
1798 - 1888

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• Birth	30 Jul 1798	Washington Co., PA.
  Gender	Male
  Buried	Feb 1888	Union Pisgah Cemetery, Seneca County, Ohio   [3]
  Died	03 Feb 1888	Seneca County, Ohio   [3]
  Person ID	I204	Leonard
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2009

  
  

  Father	Caleb LEONARD,   b. 23 Sep 1726, Dighton, Bristol, MA. ,   d. 1814, Washington Co. PA., Bealsville cemetery
  Mother	Jemima MINTHORN,   b. Between 1720 and 1730,   d. 1768
  Married	27 Jan 1748	Mendhan, Morris, NJ
  Family ID	F00048	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Nancy SMITH,   b. 25 Jul 1801, Washington County, Pennsylvania ,   d. 02 Mar 1873, Seneca County, Ohio
  Married	1820
  Children	1. Samuel Hootman LEONARD,   b. 04 Aug 1821, Deersville, Harrison, Ohio ,   d. 04 Aug 1888, Seneca County, Ohio   2. Sarah Ann LEONARD,   b. 30 Aug 1829,   d. 21 Jul 1840, Seneca County, Ohio   3. William Finley LEONARD,   b. 16 Nov 1825, Harrison County, Ohio ,   d. 1902, Seneca County, OH.   4. Verdin W. LEONARD,   b. 14 Apr 1826,   d. 06 Aug 1836, Seneca County, Ohio   5. Hiram S LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   6. Levi LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   7. Avery H LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   8. Jonathan LEONARD,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. UNKNOWN   9. Sarah Angeline LEONARD,   b. Mar 1841,   d. 30 Jun 1841, Seneca County, Ohio
  Family ID	F00134	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  History of Seneca County, Ohio (Warner, Beers & Co. Chicago, 1886) Venice Township p. 1031 AVERY LEONARD, farmer, Attica, one of the early settlers of Venice Township who still survive, was born in Washington County, Penn., July 30, 1798. His parents were natives of Connecticut. The father, Caleb LEONARD, was a descendant from the Puritans that landed on Plymouth Rock, and the mother, Sarah (Hale) LEONARD, was of English descent, being a daughter of Gideon Hale, who served under Gen. Wolfe, when he fell at the taking of Quebec from the French. His father died at the ripe age of eighty-seven, in Washington County, Penn., and the mother in her eighty-second year, in Seneca County, Ohio. Our subject received his education in the common schools, and early learned the blacksmith trade. He was married, in 1820, to Nancy, daughter of Samuel Smith, also a native of Washington County, Penn., being of German and Spanish descent, and who died in 1872, in Seneca County, Ohio. To this union were born nine children-seven sons and two daughters: Samuel H., Sarahann, William F., Verden W., Hiram S., Levi, Avery H.. Jonathan and Sarah Angeline. Verden W. was killed by a falling tree in his eleventh year; Sarahann, died in her seventeenth year, and Sarah Angeline, at the age of three months. The other six are still living-two in this county and four in Huron County-all having been engaged in farming a part of their lives. Three are still active farmers, and three are ministers of the Gospel. Avery LEONARD came to -Venice Township, this county, with his family, in the year 1834, and settled in the woods, where his children were educated in the log-schoolhouse. In politics the father and sons are all Republicans. The subject of this memoir in religion was raised a Presbyterian, and on Christmas day, 1823, under a deep conviction of sin, he gave his hand to the Methodist Episcopal Church as a seeker of the pearl of great price, and in the month of June, 1824, being in his twenty-sixth year, after seven months of terrible struggle, he realized that he was made a new creature in Christ Jesus. He remained a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church until the Methodist Protestant broke off from the mother church, when he became a member of the Methodist Protestant Church. About a year after locating in this township, he and his companion, with five others, united in forming a Methodist Protestant class in the community where they lived, since which time he has changed his church relation to that .of the United Brethren, where he now holds his membership. Mr. LEONARD is now in his eighty-eighth year, enjoying a good old age with his son, W. F., with whom he makes his home.




• Sources

  [S00072] Caleb Leonard, Sr. Will, Caleb Leoanrd Sr., (Name: transcribed by Jennie Leonard Hutchinson;). [S00170] History of Seneca County, Ohio, Warner, Beers & Co., (Name: CHICAGO: WARNER, BEERS & CO., 1886;), http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Seneca/SenBVenice.htm. AVERY LEONARD, farmer, Attica, one of the early settlers of Venice Township who still survive, was born in Washington County, Penn., July 30, 1798. p1031 [S00387] Union Pisgah (Swamp) Cemetery, Venice Township, Seneca, Ohio, Listing Online, Row 13 Grave 6 Section A. [Leonard, Avery d. 3 Feb 1888 89y 1m 3d]