Obituary - Leroy Amos Leonard - Grayson Co., VA

                        L E R O Y  A M O S  L E O N A R D

                          SUBMITTED BY BUFORD C WILSON
                           Buford_Wilson@Hotmail.Com

THE SUBJECT OF THIS SKETCH WAS BORN SEPTEMBER 9TH, 1838. HIS BOYHOOD AND 
YOUTHFUL DAYS WERE UNEVENTFUL TILL THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES WHEN HE ENLISTED 
WITH THE CAUSE OF THE SOUTH, JULY 4TH, 1861. HE JOINED COMPANY C., AFTERWARDS 
JOINED COMPANY F., TWENTY-NINTH VIRGINIA REGIMENT; WAS CAPTURED AT COLD HARBOR 
IN 1864 AND PUT IN PRISON AT ELMIRA, N. Y. WHERE HE REMAINED TILL THE SURRENDER. 
HE RETURNED HOME AFTER THE SURRENDER AND APRIL 23RD, 1867, WAS HAPPILY MARRIED 
TO ELLEN LEONARD FROM WHICH UNION WERE BORN ELEVEN CHILDREN, SEVEN OF WHICH MRS. 
CORA WILLIAMS, McLKOUTH, KAN., ALBERT LEONARD, MISS EMMA LEONARD, GALAX; MRS. 
ETTA REAVIS, OLDTOWN, W. H. LEONARD, CLEVELAND, WASH, E. A. LEONARD, ROXBURG, 
OREGON, MRS. FANNIE McKENZIE AND MISS FLORENCE LEONARD, GALAX, ARE LEFT TO MOURN 
THEIR LOSS. THE OTHER FOUR AND THE MOTHER AND WIFE PRECEDED HIM TO THE SPIRIT 
WORLD. HIS WIFE HAVING GONE ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO.

HE WAS A GOOD FATHER, A QUITE UNASSUMING BUT SUBSTANTIAL CITIZEN. ABOUT 
FORTY YEARS AGO, HE GAVE HIS HEART TO GOD AND JOINED THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL 
CHURCH AND LIVED AT PEACE WITH HIS GOD AND NEIGHBORS TILL HIS SUDDEN DEATH, JULY 
25TH, 1912. HIS LIFE WAS ACTIVE AND FULL OF LABOR TILL HIS DEATH. HE OFTEN 
EXPRESSED HIMSELF AS TO THE WAY HE WANTED TO GO; THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO HE SICK 
AND HAVE TO BE WAITED ON, BUT THAT HE WANTED TO GO WHILE ABOUT HIS DAILY DUTIES. 
HIS HOUSE WAS IN ORDER AS THE FOLLOWING WILL PROVE, WRITTEN AWHILE BEFORE HIS 
DEPARTURE. "ALBERT I AM NOT GOING TO STAY HERE MUCH LONGER I KNOW. EVERY HOUR I 
THINK WILL BE MY LAST.  -ILLEGIBLE- GO AT THE CALL OF THE LORD. I LEAVE THIS 
WORLD AS I FOUND IT, AT PEACE WITH ALL. I WANT PLAIN CLOTHING PUT ON ME WHEN I 
LEAVE, SUCH AS I WORE WHILE LIVING. I WANT NO SHOES, I HAVE NO WILL TO MAKE, BUT 
GOOD WILL TO ALL."

WE HOPE TO MEET HIM SOMEDAY AND ARE REMINDED OF THE LANGUAGE OF THE PSALMS. 
"LET ME DIE THE DEATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS. LET MY LAST END BE LIKE HIS.

E C WILLIAMS

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