Sarah
(Harbaugh) Leonard
(1810-1876)
Sarah
(Harbaugh) Leonard was born on Nov. 18, 1810 in or near Rockwood, PA, the daughter of Leonard and
Elizabeth (Pritts) Harbaugh.
When Sarah was a girl, her mother died. A few years later, when she was about 9, her father then married young widow Martha (Minerd) Imel, who became Sarah's step-mother.
Sarah married Benjamin Leonard (1806-1877) and lived near Ohiopyle, Fayette County, PA.
The Leonards had 11 children -- Eli Leonard, Isaac Leonard, Rev. Amos Potter Leonard, Samuel Leonard, Anne Young, Reuben H. Leonard, Rebecca Farmer, Christmas Leonard, Mary Potter, Martha Turney and Robert Bacom Leonard.
Benjamin and his son in law, George Perry Potter, were "the first to manufacture splint chairs on Meadow Run," says the 2000 book, The Explorer's Guide to the Youghiogheny River Gorge, Ohiopyle, & S.W. Pennsylvania's Villages, by Marci McGuinness and Bill Sohonage.
The narrows of Meadow Run in a rare old photographic postcard
Benjamin's sons Reuben and Christmas "kept his business going long after his death."
Sarah died on Aug. 18,
1876, at the age of 66.
Benjamin passed away just six months later, on Feb. 12, 1877. He was age 71. His grave marker is seen at right, still legible when photographed in May 2001.
They are buried at the Irwin Memorial Cemetery (formerly known as Belle Grove Cemetery) near Ohiopyle.
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