He married Alice Corey Bacon in 1907 in Green County, Arkansas. They had three children together, one son, and two daughters.
Together with h
is brothers Charles Walter Stedman and William Telfair Stedman, he purchased a hardware store in Paragould, Arkansas in 1905 and named it Stedman Hardware Company until they sold it in 1944
He was a director and Vice President of the National Bank of Commerce in Paragould, a member of the first Paragould Municipal Light Plant Board, and the city's first Board of Paving Commissioners..
He also served on the building committees of the First Methodist Church and the Vandervoort Hotel. He operated a store in Bay Spur for a time, and owned farm land in western Greeene County.
He passed away in 1948 in Paragould and was buried in Linwood Cemetery.
A C Bacon in the Arkansas, U.S., County Marriages Index, 1837-1957, Ancestry.com. Arkansas, U.S., County Marriages Index, 1837-1957 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011., Ancestry Record 2548 #2919001
"United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6K74-89BM : 10 February 2023), Leonidas Udolphus Stedman, .
"Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VJTS-H15 : 27 November 2014), Leonidas Eud Steadman, 14 Jul 1948; derived from "Arkansas, Death Index, 1914-1950," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); a multigenerational derivative citing Division of Vital Records, Arkansas Department of Health, Arkansas Death Index, 1914-1950 (Arkansas: Arkansas Genealogical Society).
"United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q57T-G6G3 : Fri Oct 20 10:35:42 UTC 2023), Entry for Mr Leonidas Udolpho Stedman and C W, 15 Jul 1948.
"United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q53H-9XZ7 : Fri Oct 20 17:23:26 UTC 2023), Entry for Leonidas J Stedman and A G, 16 Jul 1948.
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22857033/leonidas-u-stedman: accessed 16 January 2024), memorial page for Leonidas U. Stedman (1870–14 Jul 1948), Find A Grave: Memorial #22857033, citing Linwood Cemetery, Paragould, Greene County, Arkansas, USA; Maintained by Connie Jean (contributor 46825692).
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