George was born in 1854.[1] His mother passed away a month after his second birthday.[2] George, his sister, Mary Jane Leonard, and his brother, John Lawrence Leonard, were enumerated at the home of his aunt and uncle in the 1860 census.[3] He passed away in 1933 and is buried in West Point Cemetery on the outskirts of Liberty, Indiana, United States.[1][2][4]
In The News
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Leonard and family enterained Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Leonard, Mr. and Mrs. Lora Coffman and sons, and Mr. and Mrs. Joe. Coddington and daughter Margaret. - from The Liberty Herald, Thursday, July 6, 1919.[5]
Sources
↑ 1.01.1 Death certificate of George Leonard. Indiana Archives and Records Administration; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Death Certificates; Year: 1933; Roll: 06.
↑ 2.02.1 Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/203335166/george-washington-leonard : accessed 12 May 2021), memorial page for George Washington Leonard (1 Oct 1854–6 May 1933), Find A Grave: Memorial #203335166, citing West Point Cemetery, Liberty, Union County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by Alison H (contributor 47405223) . Birth date calculated from inscription on gravestone.
Maternal relationship is confirmed by a triangulated group on GEDmatch who share a 37.2 cM segment on chromosome 3, consisting of Kelly Leonard, GEDmatch kit # AY817142C1, and Bob Wagner, his 3rd cousin, GEDmatch kit # A319340, and RB, his 4th cousin, GEDmatch kit # A753105. (Bob and RB are 4th cousins.) Their most-recent common ancestors are John Marshall and Rachel Debolt, the 3x great grandparents of both Kelly Leonard and Bob Wagner and 3x great grandparents of RB. DNA test taker Kelly Leonard is the great grandson of George Leonard, the son of Eliza Marshall, the daughter of the common ancestors John Marshall & Rachel Debolt.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with George by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Kelly Leonard :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup J-M172, Ancestry member nrgmusic52260, FTDNA kit #924844
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with George:
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