b. 10 Dec 1941, m. 2 May 1964 Margaret LaVoie; Dorothy Lorraine b. 2 Dec 1942, m. 14 Nov 1964 Herman Penner; Mary Marilyn b. 23 Nov 1944, m. 17 Sept 1966 Peter Morrison; DonaldJohnson b. 29 Apr 1948, m. 6 Nov 1982 Lauretta Dale Quigley; Velda Dianne b. 11 Dec 1950, m. 3July 1971 James Garry Paynter.

Alva Stewart b. 13 Dec 1907, In. Marcia Almira Webber, b. 3 Feb 1910. They lived in the USA and had 2 children: Shirley Lorraine b. 30 Aug 1929; Thomas Edward b. 11 May 1937.

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Hamilton b. 1870, d. 2 Aug 1945, bur. Tryon Peoples’ Cem., son of Stephen Leard and Harriet Wood, m.Jennie Thomson, b. 9June 1868, d. 20 March 1945, bur. Tryon Peoples Cem., daughter of Charles Muttart Thomson and Sarah Jane MacWilliams. See Thomson history. ‘They had no children.

Hmnilton and Jennie lived on the Crossroad, first in the Joseph Wood house. This house was passed from Joseph to his son John and his wife, Sarah Wadman, and on their deaths to their daughter, Carrie Wood. Ham Leard and Jennie Thomson moved in with Ham’s Aunt Carrie and farmed the land. Ham sold the homestead in 1930 to Burpee and Norine Thomas Carr and Ham and Jennie moved to the James Thomson house. Earle and Mabel Clarke Sawler bought the house from Burpee and Norine in 1933. It was sold and moved through the woods in 1953 to Harry Dawson’s farm on the River Road. Richard Newsome bought the farmland. The timber in the Joseph Wood house is hand- hewn and the joints are mitered indicating that the house must have been built in the early 18003.

Sources: Baptismal Records; Census; Leard History; Jessie Craig; George Leard research.

Ham Leard house being moved in 1953. Vernon Inman collection.

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