A Wilson Family Tree

Notes for Martha Leonard

Names of children are from a John Wanamaker e-mail, except for Jeanette, who is listed in the "names occurring frequently" for the Abiel Leonard collection (general correspondence).

From the Wanamaker manuscript:

Martha Leonard was born in Fayette, Mo. in the family’s “log cabin” in which they were living while waiting for completion of Oakwood. She married Dr. Joseph D. Smith, a native of Virginia and a Fayette physician. The marriage was on 15 June 1854. During the war Dr. Smith was made medical director of the St. Joseph district and for some time served as surgeon of the Ninth Cavalry, Missouri State Militia – the unit commanded by General Odon Guitar, who married Martha Leonard’s sister Kate. Reeves Leonard, brother of Martha and Kate, was a Captain, then Major in the unit. The Smiths moved to St. Joseph immediately after the war and remained there until their deaths. They were a very prominent family in St. Joseph, both professionally and socially, where the doctor was a distinguished physician, educator and gifted linguist. He died in 1900 at the age of 71.

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