Second Generation

2. Reuben LEONARD was born on 10 April 1797 in England. He died on 30 November 1881 at the age of 84 in Parker, Armstrong Co., PA. Name is spelled "Rheuben" on gravestone.

He and Ann are listed in Gloucestershire records as marrying in March 1822.

He and Ann apparently arrived in America in 21 May 1822 on the Schooner, Two Friends. He left from Bristol, England.

"An iron works in Kensington (PA) was built in 1825 by George Lewis and Reuben Leonard (A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and her People). Reuben and his brother Samuel operated the first ironworks in the city (Pittsburgh), later called the Kensington rolling mills. They moved to Bear Creek in 1833 and took over the ironworks there, which they operated at a profit until sometime after 1840, when Reuben retired. Reuben died at the old Parker homestead in November 188-. (Armstrong County: Her People Past and Present, Vol. 2, p. 535)

Reuben LEONARD and Ann Lee EDWARDS were married on 16 March 1822 at St. Nicholas Church, Bristol in Gloucestershire, England. Ann Lee EDWARDS was born on 16 March 1793 in England. She died on 3 August 1860 at the age of 67 in Parker, Armstrong Co., PA.

Reuben LEONARD and Ann Lee EDWARDS had the following children:

4	i.	Charlotte "Lottie" LEONARD was born (date unknown).
5	ii.	James Bowen LEONARD was born in 1824.
+6	iii.	Anna LEONARD.
+7	iv.	John B. LEONARD.
+8	v.	Reuben Edward LEONARD.
+9	vi.	Emma F. LEONARD.
10	vii.	William Penn LEONARD was born in 1831 in PA. Did he marry Christina Earnest?
11	viii.	Cornelius Bowen LEONARD was born in 1832 in PA.
+12	ix.	Simeon LEONARD.