| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation4000. Stephen Sylvester LEONARD1311 was born on 22 September 1852 in Liberty, Union Co., IN. He died on 17 June 1892 at the age of 39 in Truesdale, Brown twp., Edwards Co., KS. He was buried in Trotter Cemetery, Lewis, Edwards Co., KS. Stephen and Carrie and five children came to Kansas by covered wagon to homestead in 1884. His brother Francis was already living in He filed a land claim November 7, 1891, and died at the age of 40 in June of the grip a few months later, leaving a 31-year-old wife and children ages 15 months to 15 years. Carrie Alice remarried in 1895 to Rudolph Marteeney, a farmer/stockman, and had another daughter, Virginia. According to tales told by Anna Johanna Tenbrink Leonard, Sylvester Benjamin (Bud) Leonard, and Rose Josephine Minet Leonard, four of the daughters were "very wild" and married each others husbands. The boys all married one wife and were "good providers." There is another rumor that another brother, William M. Leonard, came with Francis to Kansas and ended up in New Mexico (but no proof). Stephen Sylvester LEONARD and Carrie Alice RING were married in February 1876. Carrie Alice RING1311 was born on 13 July 1861 in IN. She died on 24 March 1909 at the age of 47 in Truesdale, Brown twp., Edwards Co., KS. She was buried in Trotter Cemetery, Lewis, Edwards Co., KS. Stephen Sylvester LEONARD and Carrie Alice RING had the following children:
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