| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Eighth Generation413. John H. LEONARD was born in December 1852 in Providence, RI.71 He died on 22 July 1924 at the age of 71 in Rhode Island.87 He was 70 years of age at death. He listed George A. and Emily as next of kin. Almira was his second wife. He was working as a farm laborer in Seekonk on the farm of Edwin and Mary Sylvester in the 1870 Census. He was born in RI. Almira Worthington, 27, was also living at the farm, along with William Worthington, 12. John H. (Henry?) Leonard married Almira. The family is listed as living in Seekonk, Bristol Co, MA in the 1880 Census (National Archives T9-0523m oage 197B). John H. is not listed among the children -- dead, away, error, child of someone else? He may have been a night watchman in a planing mill in the 1880 Census. The family is listed as living at 332 Jenkins Avenue, East Providence, in the 1900 Census. Fred, Sylvester, and Ida were still living at home. In the 1920 Census, John H., foreman at a chemical factory, was living 102 Lewis Avenue in the Rumford section of East Providence. Living with him were his son, Frederick, 45, a carpenter at a chemical factory, daughter Ada, 28, unemployed, and son Raymond, 20, a teamster at a chemical factory. No wife is mentioned. The children were born in Massachusetts (probably Seekonk). John H. LEONARD and Almira W. WORTHINGTON were married on 28 March 1872 in Seekonk, MA. Almira W. WORTHINGTON, daughter of Sylvester W. WORTHINGTON and Mary CALVIN, was born in June 1841 in Pawtucket, RI. She died before 1920 at the age of 79. John H. LEONARD and Almira W. WORTHINGTON had the following children:
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