Commited suicide by hanging. His brother Uriah commited suicide by gunshot to the head two years earlier.
Buried in Keener Cemetery, Sylva, Jackson County, NC
Sources
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLSJ-1V8 : accessed 7 August 2017), Ransy J Leatherman, Cowee, Macon, North Carolina, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 108, sheet 2A, family 26, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1121; FHL microfilm 1,375,134.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZJS-4J9 : accessed 6 August 2017), Loranzy Leatherman, Sylva, Jackson, North Carolina, United States; citing ED 115, sheet 1B, line 94, family 21, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1306; FHL microfilm 1,821,306.
"North Carolina Deaths, 1906-1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F36M-Q43 : 17 July 2017), Isaacs Leatherman in entry for L. G. Leatherman, 23 Oct 1930; citing ..., Jackson, North Carolina, reference cn 33, State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh; FHL microfilm 1,943,025.
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