Fifth Generation

143. Ezekiel LEONARD was born on 31 August 1816 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA.¹⁶ He was born about 1817 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA. He died on 21 August 1895 at the age of 78 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA.⁹⁶ He was a shoemaker in Norton. In the 1850 Census, Ezekiel, 33, wife Sally, 32, Ezekiel 10, Louis E., 7, Irving L., 4, and Edwin A, 2, were all living in Norton.

Note that he was living near the Hathaway Leonard family and Otis Leonard family, Otis also being a shoemaker. That part of Massachusetts (near Brockton and Middleboro) was, for a time, a center of shoemaking in the US.

Ezekiel LEONARD and Sally R. FIELD were married on 29 September 1837. They were married on 29 October 1837 in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA.⁹⁷ Sally R. FIELD was born on 27 December 1817 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA. She died on 27 April 1896 at the age of 78 in Norton, Bristol Co., MA.⁹⁶ She was born in Taunton, Bristol Co., MA.

Ezekiel LEONARD and Sally R. FIELD had the following children: