Ancestors
Lester Harold Leonard
1891-1952 · Wareham
Born 1891, Wareham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Died 1952
Father: Clarence E. Leonard
Mother: Florence J. Wallace
Children include Glenn
Lester Harold Leonard was born at Wareham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, on 11 July 1891. He was the son of Clarence Eugene Leonard and Florence Jane Wallace, who had married at Taunton three years before. His brothers and sisters included Elmer Carlton, William E., Florence M. and Lottie Mildred.
On Christmas Day 1914, at twenty-three, he married Grace F. Snell at Wareham. Grace was eighteen, from East Wareham, the daughter of Jesse E. Snell and V. Josephine Stringer. The town clerk entered the marriage on page 274 of the register, as number 67 for the year.
Their first son, Glen Elmer Leonard, was born at East Wareham on 5 September 1915. By 1920 the family had moved up to Somerville, the city just north of Boston, where a second son, Everett Wallace Leonard, was born on 17 September 1920. Everett's middle name was Lester's mother's maiden name.
Lester later went west to southern California. His son Everett married Jeanne Lynn Hoover at Los Angeles on 24 March 1951 and named his father as Lester H. Leonard. Lester died at Los Angeles on 1 April 1952, at sixty. His death record gives his birth as 11 July 1891 in Massachusetts and his mother's maiden name as Wallace. He was buried at Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier, the large cemetery in the hills east of Los Angeles.
Sources
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, Wareham marriages 1914, page 274 no. 67, FamilySearch ark 1:1:N4XQ-FJZ, image 3:1:S3HY-68TS-3F4.
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, Wareham births 1915, page 239, FamilySearch ark 1:1:FXKV-212, image 3:1:S3HY-6SF9-ZJ3.
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, Somerville births 1920, page 158, entry 1386, FamilySearch ark 1:1:QLGY-WDWW, image 3:1:3QS7-89MN-F367.
California, County Marriages, 1849-1957, Los Angeles, 1951, page 102, FamilySearch ark 1:1:K8DL-P2X.
Massachusetts marriage register, Wareham, 25 December 1914 (FamilySearch 1:1:N4XQ-FJZ, image 3:1:S3HY-68TS-3F4); Massachusetts birth registers, Wareham 1915 (1:1:FXKV-212) and Somerville 1920 (1:1:QLGY-WDWW); California county marriage, Los Angeles, 1951 (1:1:K8DL-P2X); Find a Grave memorial 232080449
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, Wareham births 1891, page 601, FamilySearch ark 1:1:FXND-TDJ.
California, Death Index, 1940-1997, FamilySearch ark 1:1:VP7F-QBB; burial: BillionGraves, Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, FamilySearch ark 1:1:7HYR-RSPZ.
Massachusetts birth register, Wareham, 11 July 1891, page 601 (FamilySearch 1:1:FXND-TDJ); Massachusetts marriage register, Wareham, 25 December 1914 (1:1:N4XQ-FJZ, image 3:1:S3HY-68TS-3F4); Massachusetts birth registers, Wareham 1915 (1:1:FXKV-212) and Somerville 1920 (1:1:QLGY-WDWW); California county marriage, Los Angeles, 1951 (1:1:K8DL-P2X); California death index, 1 April 1952 (1:1:VP7F-QBB); California county birth and death records, 10 June 1952 (1:1:QLKL-1NBD); BillionGraves, Rose Hills Memorial Park (1:1:7HYR-RSPZ); Find a Grave memorial 232080449
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