Fourth Generation


80. Thomas Churchill LEONARD was born on 5 January 1821 in Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., MA.40 He died on 27 April 1890 at the age of 69 in Warwick, RI. He was buried in Mayflower Hill Cemetery, Taunton, MA. He was tutored by a very brilliant mother. He met Sabrina while traveling on the old Erie Canal at Canastota, NY. They lived for a time in Peterboro, and William was born there. They then went to Killingly, CT, and later to Palmer, MA. Thomas was a stone cutter and owned a shop of his own. (Per Harriotte Standish Leonard, The Leonard Dictionary)

He died in Warwick at age 70 yrs., 3 mos., 21 days, of disease of bladder, pyaemia. He was a marble worker.

The cemetery lot of George Leonard includes the graves of Thomas C. Leonard 1820-1890, Sabrina L, his wife, 1821-1853, Frederick A., their son, 1853-?, Frank T. Leonard 1851-1929, Emily J., his wife, 1855-1916, George T. Leonard 1887-1931, and Grace G.,his wife, 1889-1918.

He was also married to a Partridge and a Mooney, dates unknown, no children.

Sabrina Lorraine CHAFEE41, daughter of Walter CHAFEE and Anne HYDE, was born in 1826 in Peterboro, NY. She died on 29 November 1853 at the age of 27 in Palmer, MA. Palmer, MA, does not have a death record for her. She died of injuries suffered when moving a trunk, rupturing a blood vessel.

Thomas Churchill LEONARD and Sabrina Lorraine CHAFEE had the following children:

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William Henry LEONARD.

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Francis Thomas LEONARD.

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Frederick A. LEONARD was born on 19 September 1853. He died in Lost at sea..

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iv.

Lucy LEONARD was born (date unknown).

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v.

Louise LEONARD was born (date unknown).