A Wilson Family Tree
Notes for Reeves Leonard
From the Howard County Advertiser, 17 Jan 1878 (obtained from John Wanamaker):
Major Leonard died at his mother’s residence near this city last Saturday morning at 1 o’clock, in the 40th year of his age, the deceased was a son of the late Judge Abiel Leonard of this vicinity. He was a man of unusally fine literary attainments, having spent several years abroad in study, after completing a full course at Dartmouth. It is said that he was the most thoroughly educated cultured man in letters of his age in the state, having graduated at the Berlin University, Germany. Maj. Leonard returned to his home just at the outbreak of the war between the states, and at once espoused the union cause, accepting a captain’s commission in the ninth Missouri State Militia from which he was rapidly promoted to the rank of Major, which he held till the close of the war.
At the cessation of hostilities he married Miss Alice, a daughter of the late J.B. Gardenhire of Jefferson City and removed to Fort Scott, Kansas, where he entered into the practice of law.
On account of failing health he was soon compelled to abandon his profession and returned to his old home, where he has since remained in feeble health. A few weeks since he was seized with a dropsical affection which resulted in death as above stated. The funeral obsequies at the Episcopal church which were very solemn and impressive were witnessed by a large assemblage of the friends of the family, after which the remains were conveyed to the cemetery and deposited in the family lot. The deceased leaves a widow and two little children to mourn his loss.
According to John Wanamaker, in the Civil War he served under General Odon Guitar, who later married his sister Kate.
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