| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Seventh Generation1395. George LEONARD116 was born on 30 March 1839 in Nichols, Tioga County, NY. He died on 30 August 1882 at the age of 43 in Nichols, Tioga County, NY. He learned the trade of stone mason. He was engaged for some years in lumbering and was pilot of lunber rafts on the Susquehanna River. He enlisted 11 Aug 1862 in Company G, 109 Regt., New York Volunteer Infantry. He was ill with typoid fever and he was severely wounded in front of Fort Hell 2 Apr 1865. Mr. Leonard enlisted on August 11, 1862, in Co. I., 109th New York Vols., and was in all of the numerous and bloody engagements in which his regiment took part during his term of service (among them being the battle. of the Wilderness, Fairfax C. H., and North Anna river) except when he was ill with typhoid fever from August, 1864, to March, 1865. Mr. Leonard was severely wounded in front of Fort Hell on April 2, 1865, in both an arm and a leg by a bursting shell. Taken from the field to the hospital at Alexandria, Va., he was there mustered out of service on June 5, 1865. George LEONARD and Mary PROTHERO were married about 1858 in NY. Mary PROTHERO116 was born on 22 September 1839 in England. She died in June 1894 at the age of 54. George LEONARD and Mary PROTHERO had the following children:
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