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William Smith Leffard

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Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
27 Feb 1873 (aged 75)
Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA
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Alexandria, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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From a biographical sketch of Adam Russel Leffard, we find this information about his father, William Smith Leffard.
"William S. Leffard was a Philadelphian, born in that city July 7, 1797. In earlier life he was a shoemaker but later became a farmer. He died in 1874, and his wife in 1884, both at an advanced age. Their children were nine in number: Anna Mary, who married James Cornelius, of Porter township,Huntingdon county, both deceased; Joseph S., of McVeytown, Mifflin county, married to Emma Beigle; Rose E. (Mrs Osburn Laird), of Spruce Anna Elizabeth (Mrs. John S. Laird), who died in 1889; Enoch I., married Caroline Wittaker, resides in Alexandria,, Huntingdon county; John R., of Porter township, married Margaret Brenneman; William S., agent of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad of Warren, Warren county, Pa., married Alice McClure, of Petersburg, Huntingdon county, who died in 1895; Adam Russel; Sarah C. (Mrs. Scott Beigle), of Spruce Creek. Three of their sons were soldiers in United States army during the war of the Rebellion; one of them, Joseph S. Leffard, was a cannoneer, having charge of one of the guns of Battery D, First Pennsylvania Reserves, Light Artillery, the battery from which the first shot was fired in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va."
SOURCE: Runk's 1897 Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, pg 93

LEFFARD-Near Alexandria, February 27, 1873, William S. Leffard, aged 75 years, 7 months and 20 days. Huntingdon Journal, April 2, 1873, pg 3.
From a biographical sketch of Adam Russel Leffard, we find this information about his father, William Smith Leffard.
"William S. Leffard was a Philadelphian, born in that city July 7, 1797. In earlier life he was a shoemaker but later became a farmer. He died in 1874, and his wife in 1884, both at an advanced age. Their children were nine in number: Anna Mary, who married James Cornelius, of Porter township,Huntingdon county, both deceased; Joseph S., of McVeytown, Mifflin county, married to Emma Beigle; Rose E. (Mrs Osburn Laird), of Spruce Anna Elizabeth (Mrs. John S. Laird), who died in 1889; Enoch I., married Caroline Wittaker, resides in Alexandria,, Huntingdon county; John R., of Porter township, married Margaret Brenneman; William S., agent of the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad of Warren, Warren county, Pa., married Alice McClure, of Petersburg, Huntingdon county, who died in 1895; Adam Russel; Sarah C. (Mrs. Scott Beigle), of Spruce Creek. Three of their sons were soldiers in United States army during the war of the Rebellion; one of them, Joseph S. Leffard, was a cannoneer, having charge of one of the guns of Battery D, First Pennsylvania Reserves, Light Artillery, the battery from which the first shot was fired in the battle of Cedar Creek, Va."
SOURCE: Runk's 1897 Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, pg 93

LEFFARD-Near Alexandria, February 27, 1873, William S. Leffard, aged 75 years, 7 months and 20 days. Huntingdon Journal, April 2, 1873, pg 3.

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