Leonidas Morgan April 28, 1847 - May 10, 1923
Twenty-three-year-old Leonidas Morgan was in Salt Lake City
in 1870 working as a school teacher in his brother John Morgan’s college. He
lived with his brother and sister-in-law Helen Melvina “Mellie” Morgan, and
their 5-month-old baby daughter.
Since that time Leonidas Morgan has been elusive—one of John
Morgan’s missing siblings.
John Morgan noted Leonidas’ kindness to him during an 1883
visit to Chicago, Illinois.
1883, November 8, Up early this a.m. and took the 6:44 train
into Chicago. Lon [Leonidas] assisted us and was very kind.
Other than that I have had no luck locating him. This
morning after reading James Tanner’s post on the value of probate records, I
followed one of the links he provided.
Ever looking for my Great Great Grandfather Garrard Morgan’s
actual place of death and the date he died, I searched for his name in Illinois. And up came,
“Garrard Morgan in entry for Leon Morgan,
“Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947”
Leon Morgan died May 10, 1923 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, at
76. He was born April 28, 1847 in Greensburg, Ind. to Garrard Morgan and Eliza
Hamilton. His occupation was Salesman Advertijements [sic], and he was married
to Mary E. Morgan.
Instead of Mary E.
as his wife appeared in more than one census, her name is Marie Rice Morgan. She was married to Leon Morgan on November 27, 1895 in
Pittsfield, Berkeshire, Massachusetts. Leon’s parent as they appear on the Massachusetts, Marriages, 1695-1910
records are Gaward Morgan and Eliza
H. Hamilton. That is a very different way to write Garrard. Perhaps that’s the
way it sounded to a clerk, or the way it looked from someone’s handwriting.
Their children are, Sarah D. H. Morgan, born October 5, 1896
in E. O. Essex, New Jersey, and Leon Morgan, born November 18, 1897 in E. O.
Essex, New Jersey. From “New Jersey, Births and Christenings, 1660-1980”
Leon Morgan family is found in Chicago, Cook, Illinois Census 1910, 1920, 1940.
This is wonderful sleuthing, Bessie!
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