Dispatch from Leonard, Iowa
Mar 29th, 2010 | By Rick@Leonard Family Legends & Legacies | Category: Featured Articles, Real People, Real StoriesEarly on in my family history research, I had the impression that my great-great-grandfather was either estranged from his birth family or completely cut off from the civilized world. That impression was based on the lack of evidence that they had communicated or visited one another.
Turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong, as demonstrated by the following letter mailed from Leonard, Iowa (the post office named in Uncle Dan’s honor) to the editor of the Adams County (Iowa) Free Press…
