Isaac LEONARD

  General Notes:

Olentangy Gazette
1840 - July 3.
In Eden on the 29th ult. by O. D. Hough, Dr. Isaac Leonard to Miss Nancy Thurston, all of that place.
From Longwell Family Paper Thelma Christiansen.

from Linda Hoffman
Following is a transcription of Isaac's will. The daughter's names are
bolded and underlined for emphasis.

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Will of Isaac Leonard dec'd
Pleas held at the Court House in Delaware on the 1st day of April A.D.
1845 before the honorable Orsamus Bonjour president Judge & Ahab
Franks, William Gillons & Marshall L. Griffin, Esq his associated Judge
of the court of common pleas in & for the county of Delaware in the
state of Ohio.
This day the last will & testament of Isaac Leonard, deceased was
produced in open court & proved by his testimony of the subscribing
witnesses as reduced writing approved thereto & ordered to be recorded
and therefrom on motion of George Leonard & O. D. Hough the execution
in said will named.
It is ordered that letters testamentary be granted them upon them
entering into bonds in the sum of $2000.00 with Charles Neal & Abijah
Leonard as security. And it is further ordered that William Williams,
Benjamin F. Loufborrow & Granbury R. Dalby appraise property of said
estate.
I Isaac Leonard of the county of Delaware in the state of Ohio do make
and publish this my last will & testament in manner and form following
that is to say
First \endash It is my will that my funeral expenses & all my just debts be
fully paid. Second I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Nancy in
lieu of her dower the rents, profits use occupancy and benefit of all
my real property after the payment of my debts, until each of my four
children, Minerva, Sarah L., Frances & Harriet Leonard shall come to
full age. I mean eighteen years during which time my said wife is to
maintain & suitably school & educate said children but if said children
should all die before they become of age as aforesaid or if my wife
should marry before that period then from that time she is only to have
the use of one third of my real property during her life, and after my
said children come of age as aforesaid if my wife still remain a widow
it is my desire that my said wife enjoy & receive one third of the use,
profits & rents of my real estate and that the other two thirds be
equally divided among my several children.
Third, I do hereby nominate & appoint George Leonard & O. D. Hough
executors of this my last will & testament hereby authorizing &
empowering them to compromise, adjust, release & discharge in such
manner as they think proper the debts & claims due such. I also
authorize and empower them if it shall become necessary to pay my
debts, to sell by private sale or otherwise in such manner & upon such
terms of credit as they shall think proper or otherwise all or any part
of my real estate & deed to purchasers to execute acknowledge & deliver
in fee simple. I also give my executors the exclusive right of
renting & taking care of my real property until my children come of age
for which they are said to have such reasonable compensation as may be
allowed by the court. Fourth after my personal property has been
appraised by the appraisers that will be appointed by Court & a years
support set off for my wife & children which I desire to be done soon
as possible after my death when my executors will be also authorized
and empowered to sell all or any part of my personal property either at
public or private sale or in both ways as they may think most to the
advantage of my estate & if my executors deem the allowance for the
year support too small for the widow & children the may give them such
further portion of my personal property as they may deem necessary &
proper. I hereby revoke all former wills by me made. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this nineteenth day of
September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty four.
Isaac Leonard [seal]

Signed & acknowledged by the said Isaac Leonard as his last will &
testament in our presence and signed by us in his presence \endash Abijah
Leonard, Joseph Leonard.

The state of Ohio, Delaware County Court of Common Pleas April term
1845. Personally appeared in open court Abijah Leonard and Joseph
Leonard who being duly sworn depose and say that the paper before them
purporting to be the lst will and testament of Isaac Leonard now
deceased was by the said Isaac Leonard acknowledged, published &
declared to be his last will & testament in the presence of these
deponents that the said deceased was of lawful age, that he was of
sound and disposing mind & memory and under no restraint as they verily
believe; that they subscribed the same as witnesses in the presence &
at the request of the testator and in the presence of each other.
Abijah Leonard Joseph Leonard
Sworn to & subscribed in open court this 1st day of April
AD1845. W D Hein Clerk
Recorded the foregoing will April 12, 1845
Attest W. D. Hein Clerk

Isaac married Jane FINLEY, daughter of John FINLEY and Sarah Cochran MOORE, about 1830 in , Delaware, Ohio.¹²⁷ (Jane FINLEY was born Cal 21 Aug 1807 in , Jefferson, Ohio,¹²⁷ died on 11 Mar 1840 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States and was buried in Old Eden Cem., Kilbourne, Brown, Delaware, Ohio.)

Isaac next married Nancy THURSTON, daughter of Daniel Greene THURSTON and Francis "Fanny" THAYER, on 29 Jun 1840 in Delaware Co., Ohio, United States.²⁶ (Nancy THURSTON was born on 10 Apr 1821 in Kilbourne, Brown, Delaware, Ohio, died on 14 Nov 1911 in Peru, Morrow, Ohio and was buried on 15 Nov 1911 in Green Mound Cem., Kilbourne, Delaware, Ohio, USA.)