Fifth Generation

751. Silas LEONARD⁶⁸⁴ was born on 11 Nov 1778. He died on 2 Feb 1864 in Parma, Munroe Co., NY. He was buried in Cemetery at Parma Center, NY. "About 1798 three brothers, Jonathan, Silas, and Lewis Leonard, then agedrespectively eighteen, twenty, and twenty-two, left their Connecticuthome on foot, carrying on their backs their earthly possessions, alsoprovisions for the journey, and after enduring the usual hardships ofsuch a trip, with minor adventures, such as crossing the Genesee River ona broken ice-floe at Hanford's Crossing and getting lost in the densewoods, they at last reached Atchison Settlement near Parma Center, wherethey located. Undiscouraged by hardships they hewed their way tocomfortable homes, and all lived to extreme old age. Silas, the olderbrother, became the father of Mrs. Lucina Efner, she being the youngestof a family of nine."

In the 1850 Census, Silas, wife Rachel, and children Silas, 23, andLucinda, 21, were living in Palma, NY, next to the Jonathan Leonards. Inthe 1860 Census, Silas, 81, farmer, wife Rachel, 75, were living withCharles Efner, 32, Farm laborer, wife Lucinda, 31, and Sidney Efner, 22,farm laborer.

Did Silas marry Clarissa Savil? Flink-Hanson Family Genealogy has thiswife and children Warren, Lucy Savil, Clarissa Elizabeth, George Quincy,and John S.

Rachel BUSH was born about 1785 in NY. She died on 1 Jan 1867 in Parma, Munroe Co., NY. She was buried in Cemetery at Parma Center, NY. Silas LEONARD and Rachel BUSH had the following children:

1586	i.	Mary LEONARD685 was born on 27 Jun 1810.
1587	ii.	Lucinda LEONARD was born on 20 Jan 1811. She must have died young.
+1588	iii.	Asa LEONARD.
1589	iv.	Catherine LEONARD was born on 3 Feb 1814.
+1590	v.	Lester LEONARD.
1591	vi.	Lucy LEONARD was born on 15 Mar 1820.
+1592	vii.	Gilbert LEONARD.
1593	viii.	Silas LEONARD was born in 1827 in Palma, Monroe Co., NY.
+1594	ix.	Lucinda LEONARD.