Obit: Leonard, Henry L. (1826 - 1910)

 

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon

Email: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

 

Surnames: Leonard, Stevens, Heath

 

----Source: The Granton News (Granton, Clark Co., WI.) May 27, 1910

 

Leonard, Henry L. (28 May 1826 - 18 May 1910)

 

On Wednesday, May 18th the soul of a good man beloved in this community left this worldly life to join the spirit world in the great beyond, Henry L. Leonard a neighbor of this community for some 85 years.  For 25 years he lived almost within talking distance of Mr. and Mrs. A. Heath, and they speak with highest esteem of the deceased.  It is also said that an unkind word never passed over his lips during their quarter of a century of neighborly life.  His home was filled with a mingling of love and devotion.  In all of his walks of life his being was characterized with true worth and that sterling integrity to who’s memory and works all who knew him can point with pride.

 

Henry Leonard was born in the state of Mass., May 29, 1826 and came to Wisconsin when but 17 years old.  He enlisted in the infantry of U. S. Volunteers of Wis., early at the Civil War and was honorably discharged at its close.  He died May 18, 1910, at the home of his daughter Mrs. Byron Stevens at Spokeville.  His son George, now in Colorado, and his daughter Emma (Mrs. Stevens) are left to mourn his loss.  In 1879 he was married to his second wife, Mrs. Stevens, mother of the Stevens boys.  It was somewhat out of the ordinary that the G.A.R. did not take part in his burial, as he when with us was prompt in attending their meetings and soldiers’ reunions.  He was buried beside his second wife at the Cole School House Cemetery near Spencer on Friday of last week.

 

 


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