Jacob Leonard

LEONARD, ROTH

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 8/16/2014 at 13:20:41

Jacob Leonard died at his late home three miles east of Grant, Iowa, October 25, 1902. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1837. In May 1861 he enlisted in Co. G. 21st Reg. N.Y. Inf. Vol., and was discharged in 1863 on account of disability caused by a gun shot wound in his right arm. He was married to Miss Esther Roth in 1853 and the next year moved to Lafyette County, Wisconsin, where he lived for eleven years. In the spring of 1876 he moved to Iowa, living one year in Montgomery County. In 1877 he moved his family to a farm in the edged of Adams County, where he resided until the time of his death. His wife and six children mourn his loss, the oldest child being dead. The funeral exercises were held in the Methodist Episcopal Church in Grant under the direction of the G.A.R. The sermon was preached by Rev. J. W. Caldwell to a very large concourse of friend and neighbors. The interment was in the Grant Cemetery, the burial ritual of the G.A.R. being used.
Adams County Free Press, November 5, 1902, page 8