Stephen Leard and Harriet Wood had 7 children:

+Edward Frederick b. 1854.

Ella never married.

+Jarnesjim b. 1858.

+Johnson b. 1860.

George Seymour b. 1861, d. July 1954, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., not married.

+Hamilton b. 1870.

Jessie Mae b. 1883, d. 1956, m. Harry Clark, b. 1877, d. 1951, son of Amos Clark and Nancy Murray, Victoria. They had 4 children: George m. Dorothy Short; Arthur m. Ina Ford; Nadine m. Everett Wotton; Keith m. MadoraJordon.

Edward LeardJessie Craig Collection. Jessie Ella Leardjessie Craig Collection.

Edward Frederick b. 1854, d. 1906, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., son of Stephen Leard and Harriet Wood, m. 1884Jessie Ella Nicholson, b. 22 Feb 1851, d. 4June 1954, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., daughter of

Hannah and Alexander Nicholson.

Edward andJessie, as a young couple, cleared the land beyond the brook on the Jimmy B. farm and also acquired one and one half acres of marshland. They were members of the Tryon Methodist Church.

Edward Leard and Jessie Nicholson had 4 children: +Frederick Alexander b. 6Jan 1885. Florence Grosvenor b. 1887, d. 1909, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem..

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