Ninth Generation

6375. Glenford Sigsbee LEONARD was born on 10 April 1898 in Lenawee County, MI. He died on 23 December 1974 at the age of 76 in Kissimmee, Florida.⁴¹⁴⁰ He was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Scottville, MI. The middle name, Sigsbee, comes from the commander of the battleship Main, when it was sunk in Havana Harbor, Cuba, on February 15, 1898. His mother died within hours of his birth. Per Kathleen Rodegeb, e-mail, 4 February 2006.

In the 1920 Census, they were living in Victory, Mason Co., MI. Glenford was a farmer.

Glenford Sigsbee LEONARD and Margaret Elizabeth GUNN were married on 15 June 1918 in North Woodward M.E. Church, Detroit, MI. Margaret Elizabeth GUNN, daughter of Robert Burnside WILEY and Rose BEEBE, was born on 21 September 1896 in Wiley, MI. She died on 27 November 1983 at the age of 87 in Kissimmee, Florida.⁴¹⁴¹ She was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Scottville, MI. She was born Olive May Wiley, but adopted by the Gunn family when she was 2 and given a new name.

Glenford Sigsbee LEONARD and Margaret Elizabeth GUNN had the following children:

+7117	i.	Alton Lewis LEONARD.
+7118	ii.	Glenford Sigsbee LEONARD.
+7119	iii.	Beulah May LEONARD.
+7120	iv.	Charles Wesley LEONARD.
+7121	v.	Alan Hugh LEONARD.
7122	vi.	David Augustus LEONARD was born on 26 August 1930 in Mt. Morris, Genessee Co, MI. He died on 13 June 1952 at the age of 21 in Korea. He was buried in Brookside Cemetery, Scottville, MI. As an Army corporal, he died of wounds by a missile during the Korean conflict, probably on Old Baldy.