Fountain County IN Archives Biographies.....Royal, Leonard 1814 - 
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Author: H. W. Beckwith (1881)

   Leonard Royal, farmer, Newtown, son of James and Phebe (Graves) Royal, was
born in Madison township, Butler county, Ohio, May 18, 1814. In 1827 the family
moved with a four-ox team and settled in Richland township; his father entered
the W. 1/2 S.W. 1/4 Sec. 15, T. 20, R. 7; afterward he entered the E. 1/2 N.W.
1/4 Sec. 15, and Mr. Royal now owns this last piece and occupies it for his
home. His mother died in 1853; two or three years after his father moved to
Grundy county, Illinois, where he died about two years ago, of cancer. Mr. Royal
followed coopering some forty years, but about twelve years since quit the
business; meantime he did not neglect to do farming. He was married to Mary Jane
Miller November 25, 1842. They had nine children: John and James, twins, which
died next day after birth; Isabel, born June 15, 1844, wife of Aaron Gardner:
Francis Marion, November 13, 1845; Harriet L., November 3, 1847, died in
infancy; Phebe E., October 9, 1849, married William H. Hyatt, and died October
15, 1876, leaving a son and a daughter; Catherine, May 27, 1852, wife of Logan
Kell; Clinton, August 31, 1854; Artemecia Penelope, April 9, 1857, married first
to Charles Pugh; after his death she married John Hoots in Missouri. His wife
died March 15, 1863, and on September 30 of the same year he married Priscilla
S. Fogg, by whom he had five children: William L., June 17, 1864: James Walton,
December 4, 1865; George B.. January 10, 1868, died October 26, 1870; Margaret,
January 19, 1869, died June 28, 1869; Mary Etta, August 10, 1870, died December
28, 1873. His wife died on the same day the last child did. On March 11, 1875,
he married Mary Irvin, who died March 24, 1880. His fourth marriage was with
Rebecca, relict of David Jones, and occurred June 12, 1880. She was born in
Adams county, Ohio, July 2, 1827. She married John Hyatt in Kentucky. In 1849
they moved to Iowa and settled in Davis county; the next year her husband went
overland to California, and in 1853, when returning home, died in San Francisco
of inflammation of the brain, just after having recovered from the smallpox. Her
marriage with David Jones took place September 13, 1855. He died May 14, 1878.
Mr. Royal belongs to the United Brethren church and has been a professing
christian about twenty-three years; he has held the offices of trustee and
steward. His present wife has been a Methodist twenty-four years. His oldest
son, Francis Marion, served six months at the end of the war, in Virginia. He
was in Jacob Dice's company. Mr. Royal went from the whig party into the republican.

Additional Comments:
Richland Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF FOUNTAIN COUNTY,

TOGETHER WITH
HISTORIC NOTES ON THE WABASH VALLEY,

GLEANED FROM EARLY AUTHORS, OLD MAPS AND MANUSCRIPTS
PRIVATE AND OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE, AND OTHER AUTHENTIC, THOUGH, FOR THE MOST
PART, OUT-OF-THE-WAY SOURCES.

BY H. W. BECKWITH,
OF THE DANVILLE BAR; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETIES OF
WISCONSIN AND CHICAGO.

WITH MAP AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHICAGO: H. H. HILL AND N. IDDINGS, PUBLISHERS.
1881.

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