Numa Leonard (1778 - 1855)

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Numa was born March 25, 1778 in West Springfield. He was the son of Juba Leonard and Amy Worthington.

Vinton's "The Giles Memorial" gives his wife as Betsey Landruff, Rome, N.Y.

Numa and Betsey were counted on the census in Rome, Oneida, New York, in 1850.^[1] He was 70 years old and Betsy was 60. A 25-year old Irish woman named Ann lived in the home. They didn't know her last name.

Numa died Jan. 31, 1855, at age 76, and is buried in Rome Cemetery, Rome, Oneida, New York. (Lot 3 Section C)^[2]

There is another Numa buried in the same section at Rome Cemetery. He died Mar. 21, 1870, and his age was reported as 80^[3]. This would make him born in 1790. Numa's father was Juba, so this may be a transcription error and possibly a son? A pending photo request of his grave may help answer these questions.

Numa is also buried in the same section as Benjamin Leonard, who died a year and a half prior, on June 10, 1853.^[4] There was a man named Benjamin on the 1850 census in Rome.^[5] He was a 33-year old druggist born in Massachusetts, living with Ann M. Leonard (age 27), who was listed as head of household indicating she probably wasn't his wife. Benjamin was born abt. 1816, so he may have been a son of Numa. Ann may have been his sister.

Another older grave in Section C is that of Anna Elizabeth Landon, born in New York in 1821 and died Dec. 16, 1827, at the age of 5 or 6. Her headstone reads: "In memory of Anna Elizabeth Landon, adopted daughter of Numa & Betsey Leonard who died Dec. 16, 1827, in the 6 year of her life". Her Findagrave memorial gives her parents as George Landon (1788-1843) and Cynthia Douglas (1798-1825). The little girl lost her mother in 1825, when she was about 4 years old and her father remarried to Almena Landon in 1829. He is buried in Stephentown, Rensselaer, New York, and Anna was adopted by Numa and Betsy.^[6] George Landon's memorial on Findagrave reveals there was another daughter, as well. Cynthia D. Landon was born in 1824. She married and died in 1852 and is buried in Canaan, Columbia, New York.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ 1850 U.S. Federal Census at FamilySearch
2. ↑ Findagrave memorial for Numa Leonard
3. ↑ Findagrave memorial for Numa Leonard d. 1870
4. ↑ [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13165469/benjamin-leonard Findagrave memorial for Benjamin Leonard
5. ↑ [https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-63Y9-FVQ?view=index&action=view 1850 U.S. Federal Census
6. ↑ Findagrave memorial for Anna Landon Leonard
7. ↑ Findagrave memorial for George Landon

• "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-997M-Y9NK-H?cc=2061550&wc=Q4D7-K62%3A353349501%2C353471401%2C353472001 : 20 May 2014), Hampden > West Springfield > Births, marriages, deaths 1774-1836 vol 1 > image 8 of 205; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
• Vinton, John Adams. The Giles memorial : genealogical memoirs of the families bearing the names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison, Leonard, Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Robinson, Sampson, and Webb; also genealogical sketches of the Pool, Very, Tarr and other families, with a history of Pemaquid, ancient and modern; some account of early settlements in Maine; and some details of Indian warfare, p. 289. Archive.org