Third Generation

30. George W. LEONARD was born in 1811 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA. He died on 2 September 1853 at the age of 42 in Raynham, Bristol Co., MA.³⁵ He was buried in Pleasant Street Cemetery, Raynham, MA.³⁶ George and Daniel are said by Lothrop "perhaps to be sons of James Leonard and Eunice Smith (James 2, William 1). Same in Field Genealogy. Sutton VR's show a marriage of September 2, 1805 of a Daniel Leonard and Sibyl Davis of Douglas. Which Daniel?

He was a farmer living in Raynham at the time of the 1850 Census, which lists his children: Cordelia 13, Melvin 11, George E., 9. He was called George W. Leonard in the marriage record of his son Joseph to Laura Goff.

There's another George W. Leonard born in 1810, d. 2 Sep 1852 -- think there's an error here. That George is the son of Job Leonard and Susannah Wilbur, rather than James Leonard and Eunice Smith or Daniel Leonard and Sibel Davis.

According to Raynham VR, he died of consumption (TB).

George W. LEONARD and Ruth Hoar LEONARD were married on 3 April 1833. 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).

George W. LEONARD and Ruth Hoar LEONARD had the following children: