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Leonard, Ebenezer (b. 1813)
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The History of Upshur County West Virginia
From its Earliest Exploration and Settlement to the Present Time
by W. B. Cutright
Buckhannon, W. Va., July 1, 1907

Pages 495-496

EBENEZER LEONARD, Sr., who emigrated from Bridge Water, Mass., in
1816, to the waters of the Middle Fork River about a mile south from
the postoffice at Queens, married Elizabeth Burr, daughter of John
Burr, in 1811. Mr. Leonard and wife came here with the Tenneys and
the Burrs. The genealogy of the Burr family from the best evidence at
hand is at follows:

Reverend Jonathan Burr, was born in the County Suffolk, parish of
Redgrave in 1604, and was the son of one Joseph Burr. After his
immigration to this country he entered upon the duties of the
ministry and for a time shared the church with the Reverend Cotton
Mather.

Jonathan Burr emigrated in 1639, and the only information of his
immediate family is that about his three sons, Jonathan, John and
Simon. John Burr born in 1660, and had a son, John, who was born in
1695. The ancestor of the Virginia family.

John Burr the third moved to Bridgewater, Mass., and there married
Silence Howard. To this union was born a son in 1731, whose name was
Jonathan. He married Martha Cudworth, daughter of Colonel Cudworth of
Situate, Mass. The Cudworth family having recently emigrated from
London.

To Jonathan Burr and Martha Cudworth was given a son, in 1769, whose
name was John. He married Mary Copeland of Bridgewater, Mass., and
they moved to Virginia in 1816.

Their children were: Julia, wife of Anthony See; Ebenezer, who
married Wealthy Gould; Soloman Franklin, who married Lucinda Earl;
Mary, wife of Henry Simpson; Mercy, wife of Hanson Boggess, and Levi,
who married Mary Ellen Cooper of Buckhannon in 1850, and whose second
wife was Elizabeth Copeland of Harrison County, daughter of David and
Olive Copeland. Mary Ellen Cooper, was a daughter of Mary Cooper of
Virginia.

The surviving children of Levi Leonard by his two wives are Miss
Florence, by the first, and Miss Olive Copeland Leonard by the
second, both of whom live in the town of Buckhannon.

EBENEZER LEONARD, the subject of this sketch was born in
Massachusetts in the year 1813, and when quite a small boy came with
his parents to what is now Upshur County, West Virginia, settling
first in the Middle Fork River, near Queens; afterwards on French
Creek. He was married to Wealthy Gould (who still survives him), in
1836. There were born to them eight children, only three of them
living to grow to womanhood; Lucinda, married to James Sexton, Amy,
married to A. B. Clark, and Melessa, married to George C. Carper, the
last named the only one now living.

Mr. Leonard by his industry and frugality became before his death one
of the wealthy men of the county, and was widely known for his
liberality in supporting the church and other worthy objects. He was
for years a ruling elder in the Presbyterian church at French Creek
and at Buckhannon. His death occurred March 8, 1892, age 79 years.

Our picture represents his widow, Mrs. Wealthy Leonard, who is still
living at the age of 88 years, and her great grandson, Ralph Clark
Hansen, son of W. S. and Lena Clark Hansen, and grand son of A. B.
and Amy Leonard Clark.

There are now living representing the family of Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer
Leonard one daughter, five grandchildren, thirteen great
grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. These are good
representatives of that good old New England Puritanical stock that
has wielded quite an influence in the loyalty, education and
political interests of Upshur County.

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There is a tombstone in French Creek Presbyterian Church Cemetery,
French Creek, Upshur County, WV

   Wealthy, wife of Ebenezer Leonard (1819-1909)
   
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