Ninth Generation

4706. Dorothy Stansbury LEONARD was born on 14 Sep 1898. Dorothy did quite a bit of research on the Leonard family, includingvisiting England to check the areas of the early ironworkers. She cameaway from research over there convinced that the Leonards were indeeddescendants of early French ironworkers and not minor English nobility(e.g., Sampson Leonard). Her Leonard family work is in the stacks atNEHGS. Material on her direct line comes from her work, with additionsfrom checking census records.