Stephen Leard and Harriet Wood had 7 children: + Edward Frederick b. 1854. Ella never married. +JamesJim b. 1858. +Johnson b. 1860. George Seymour b. 1861, d. July 1954, bur. 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 Leard . Jessie Craig Collection . Jessie Ella Leard . Jessie Craig Collection . Edward Frederick b. 1854, d. 1906, bur. Peoples Cem., son of Stephen Leard and Harriet Wood , m. 1884 Jessie Ella Nicholson , b. 22 Feb 1851, d. 4 June 1954, bur. Peoples Cem., daughter of Hannah and Alexander Nicholson. Edward and Jessie, 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. 6 Jan 1885. Florence Grosvenor b. 1887, d. 1909, bur. Peoples Cem.. 192