Zachariah Leard and Judith Elliott

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Husband Zachariah Leard ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - northern Ireland
     Christened: 
           Died: Abt 1820 - Young Twp, Indiana Co, PA
         Buried:  - Ebenezer Presbyterian Cemetery, Lewisville, Indiana Co, PA

       Marriage: 

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Wife Judith Elliott ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: Abt 1826
         Buried:  - Ebenezer Presbyterian Cemetery, Lewisville, Indiana Co, PA

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Children

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1 F Mary Leard ³

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           Born: 1 Apr 1785 3
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         Spouse: James Hart (      -      ) 3

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2 M William Leard ³

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           Born: 31 Mar 1788 3
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3 M James Leard ³

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           Born: 2 Nov 1790 3
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4 F Eleanor Leard ³

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           Born: 20 Mar 1793 - Ireland 3
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         Spouse: [Unk] McCoomb (      -      ) 3

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5 M John Leard ^{2 5 6}

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            AKA: John Laird 4
           Born: 16 May 1796 - Young Twp, Indiana Co, PA 3
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           Died: Mar 1858 - Blacklick Twp, Indiana Co, PA 3
         Buried:  - Ebenezer Presbyterian Cemetery, Lewisville, Indiana Co, PA

         Spouse: Mary Ann "Polly" Elder (1800-      ) 2 4 5 6
           Marr: Elders Ridge, Young Twp, Indiana Co, PA

         Spouse: Jane Smith (      -      ) 3

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6 F Judith Leard ³

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           Born: 26 May 1799 3
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         Spouse: William Stewart (      -      ) 3

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7 M Samuel Leard ³

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           Born: 2 Dec 1801 3
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           Died: while young
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8 M Zachariah Leard ³

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           Born: 12 Oct 1807 3
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General Notes: Husband - Zachariah Leard

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The Leards of Blacklick township, Indiana County, are one of the best known among the pioneer families of that part of Pennsylvania. The family is of Scotch origin, but for generations the home of this branch has been in the North of Ireland, where Zachariah Leard, the founder of the line in Indiana County, was born and grew to manhood. There he married, and with their family they left their native land in February, 1796, coming to America. Proceeding across Pennsylvania to the west of the Allegheny mountains, they settled in what is now Young township, Indiana County, on a farm near Ebenezer Church, establishing a permanent home there, where the parents passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Leard followed farming. He died on his farm about 1820, and was buried in the cemetery of the Ebenezer Presbyterian Church, of which he was a faithful member. His wife survived him several years, dying about 1826, and is buried beside him. She, too, was a member of the Ebenezer Church.

The year 1771 was the date of the arrival in Young township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, of Zachariah Leard, who came there from Ireland, his birth-place, his home in the northern part of that island. He was the founder of the family in this country. [GPHWP, 566]

1 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 822.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 566.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 823.

4 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 200.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 503.

6 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 823, 961.