Thomas V. LEONARD^[1]
1898 - 1918

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• Birth	20 Sep 1898	Taylor County, JACKSON Twp, Bedford, Iowa   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	03 Aug 1918	France   [1]
  Person ID	I968	Leonard
  Last Modified	22 Oct 2009

  
  

  Father	Robert Irvin LEONARD,   b. 24 Nov 1876, Taylor County, Bedford ,Iowa ,   d. 24 Apr 1941, Buchanan County, St. Joseph, Missouri
  Mother	Sarah M. KINNEY,   b. 01 Dec 1875, Worth County, Missouri? ,   d. 13 Jun 1938, Buchanan County, St. Joseph, Missouri
  Married	02 Sep 1897	Taylor County, Iowa
  Family ID	F00381	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  Per Willard R. LEONARD, Thomas V. LEONARD was killed in War War I, and is buried in France. The newspaper article was stolen in 1999. Sarah LEONARD, mother, visited the cemetery in France, per Willard R LEONARD, grandson. Bedford Free Press, Taylor County, IA Wednesday, September 11, 1918 Two more boys, who were members of Company K, have fallen on the battlefields of France according to letters received from members of the Corning company. Those mentioned are; Rollie Livingston, son of ... and Tom LEONARD, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert LEONARD, now residing in St. Joseph. His parents formerly lived in Bedford and their son joined from here last year. Word of LEONARD's death was received in two letters, one written to Bedford and the other received by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schively, now living in Villisca, from their son, Roscoe, who belonged to the same company. In the letter from Schively her mentions LEONARD being killed while they were marching and that he (Schively) was only four men behind LEONARD when he was stuck by a shell. U.S. World War 1 Mothers' Pilrimage. In the late 1920s the War Department of the United States compiled a list of mothers and widows of soldiers killed in World War 1 and offered to send them to their loved one's final resting place in Europe. Sarah M. (KINNEY) LEONARD of 2118 St. Joe Ave. St. Joseph, Mo., Buchanan County went to visit the cemetery Oise-Aisne in 1930.




• Sources

  [S00317] Sharon LEONARD GED/FBK file, Sharon LEONARD, (Name: ongoing research, emailed to me 8/29/2008;).