Seventh Generation

1317. Jay LEONARD¹¹³ was born on 25 May 1840 in Agawam, Hampden Co., MA. He died on 7 October 1918 at the age of 78. He was a private in Co. G., 37th Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers. He was a miller and enlisted on 16 Aug 1862. He was later promoted to corporal.

In the 1870 Census, he was a teacher, living in Allison, Lawrence Co., IL, with his brother Joseph, a merchant. In the 1880 and 1900 Censuses, he was a farmer living in Allison with his family. In the 1900 Census, it states that he had 6 children, of which 5 were surviving as of that date.

Jay LEONARD and Mary Catherine BIBLE were married on 25 May 1872. Mary Catherine BIBLE was born in June 1854 in VA. She died in 1925 at the age of 71.

Jay LEONARD and Mary Catherine BIBLE had the following children:

+1770	i.	Nancy Ellen "Ella" LEONARD.
1771	ii.	Joseph LEONARD was born in 1878 in Russellville, Lawrence Co., IL.
1772	iii.	Philip LEONARD was born in May 1880 in Russellville, Lawrence Co., IL.
1773	iv.	Ethel LEONARD was born in 1885 in Russellville, Lawrence Co., IL.
+1774	v.	Mabel LEONARD.