Third Generation

28. Daniel LEONARD was born about 1808 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA. Birth date from gravestone -- 23 at death in 1831. He died on 25 May 1831 at the age of 23 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA.¹⁰ He was buried in Winneconnet Cemetery, Bay Road (NE corner), Norton, MA. First husband of Ruth Hoar Leonard, per ECL. Brother of George? He was only 16 when he married?

Lois Badger in The Leonard Dictionary quotes Emma Burt, genealogist of Taunton, and the Franklin Pratt papers that Daniel was probably the son of James Leonard and Eunice Smith of the William Leonard-Sarah Bolton line. Others of this line are buried in Winnecunnet Cemetery. Note that there is conflict over the ancestry of Daniel and George Leonard.

Daniel LEONARD and Ruth Hoar LEONARD were married on 8 December 1823 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA.¹⁰ Ruth Hoar LEONARD, daughter of William LEONARD, was born on 3 October 1807 in Massachusetts. She died on 2 January 1881 at the age of 73 in Brockton, Plymouth Co., MA. She was buried in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Raynham, MA. In the 1850 Census, she was living with her husband, George, and their family. In the 1860 Census, she was living with son Melvin G. and his wife in Dighton. In the 1870 Census, she was living in Taunton, "keeping house" apparently in the household of Liba Babbett. In the 1880 Census, she was living with son Daniel, Hannah, his wife, and Augusta Leonard, 19, their daughter.

The White Family Genealogy says that Ruth Hoar Leonard married first, Daniel Leonard of Norton; second, George Leonard, brother of Daniel, her first husband; Daniel and George were, perhaps, sons of James and Eunice (Smith) Leonard. The Lothrop and Field genealogies also have Daniel and George as sons of James and Eunice Smith Leonard. That's different from what's here: Daniel and George being sons of Daniel, who is son of Seth and Ruth Hoar. Which is correct?

When Ruth married George, she was listed as "of Easton." A Ruth Leonard, dau of Isaac Leonard of Easton, was born 22 Dec 1806 and is the wife of this George in some accounts..

Note that her sister, Dinah, married a Field (Stillman Field).

Daniel LEONARD and Ruth Hoar LEONARD had the following children:

+121	i.	Daniel LEONARD.
122	ii.	Ruth LEONARD was born in 1826 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA. She died in 1842 at the age of 16.
+123	iii.	Louisa Burt LEONARD.
124	iv.	Jarvis R. LEONARD was born in February 1830 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA. In the 1850 Census, Jarvis, 19, was living in Bridgewater, a shoemaker living with Martin Howe and family. Martin was also a shoemaker.