| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Sixth Generation1178. John G. LEONARD1311 was born on 19 February 1792 in Morris Co., NJ. He died on 5 April 1866 at the age of 74 in Silver Creek?, Union Co., IN. He was buried in West Point Cemetery, Liberty, IN. Did he move, with other Leonards, Kitchells, and Wards, to Ohio and then Indiana? Family tradition is that John G. forded the Ohio River from an area in Pennsylvania to Ohio with Saloma Ward's parents and her brothers' families. There is in existence somewhere a family bible of John G. and Saloma Leonard. He is believed to be the J.G Leonard on William H. Moore's general store account book, 1817 to abt. 1820, in Hamilton Co., OH. The 1820 federal census of Hamilton Co. shows John living there with a wife, a son, and a daughter. In the 1850 Census, he was a mechanic, 58, born in NJ, living in Clinton twp., Union Co., Indiana, with his wife Saloma, 58, Rachael Leonard, 21, John J. Leonard, 18, and Mary E. Shaeffer, 3. John J. was a farmer. Is he the son of this David Leonard? There are two David Leonards b. abt. 1737. Some family trees have David married to Mary Hall. John G. LEONARD and Saloma Dessie WARD were married about March 1813 in Chatham twp, Morris Co., NJ. Saloma Dessie WARD, daughter of Stephen WARD and Mary Polly GENUNG, was born on 10 November 1796 in Essex Co., NJ.1312 She died on 18 April 1877 at the age of 80 in Union Co., IN. She was buried at Next to her husband. in West Point Cemetery, Liberty, IN. John G. LEONARD and Saloma Dessie WARD had the following children:
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