Jonas Leonard SARGENT^[1]

1885 - 1953  (67 years)

• Name	Jonas Leonard SARGENT
  Born	12 Dec 1885	Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	Shop worker
  Died	3 Apr 1953	Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts
  Buried	Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I26856	Main
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2009

  
  

  Father	Joseph Herbert SARGENT,   b. 23 Jan 1852, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 15 Dec 1933, Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts  (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Addie Laurene Elizabeth LEONARD,   b. 29 May 1857, Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts ,   d. 18 May 1942, Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts  (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F9286	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Fannie May BROOKS,   b. 19 Jul 1891, Charlestown, Sullivan, New Hampshire ,   d. 21 Jan 1950, Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts  (Age 58 years)
  Children	1. Walter Leonard SARGENT,   b. 18 Jun 1913, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont ,   d. 28 Jun 1913, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont  (Age 0 years) + 2. Mildred Marquerite SARGENT,   b. 14 Jan 1917, Brattleboro, Windham, Vermont ,   d. 11 Oct 1976, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts  (Age 59 years)   3. Gertrude Leona Lorraine SARGENT,   b. 18 Jan 1922, Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts ,   d. 26 Mar 1923, Erving, Franklin, Massachusetts  (Age 1 years)
  Last Modified	9 Dec 2023
  Family ID	F9285	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Jonas Leonard Sargent was born December 12, 1885, the third child and first s/o Herbert and Addie Sargent. The family was probably living in the house that Addie and her sister Cora had inherited from her stepfather Warren Stratton. At least they were there the following summer when Leonard's sister Ava later recalled that Lenny's baby carriage rolled off the stone wall that raises the lawn above the road, scaring everyone, but little harm done to baby. Ava also remembered that they lived on Northfield Mountain during the blizzard of 1888. The house has for many years now been owned by the McCassie family. Leonard grew up in a very small town setting, with a garden and afew farm animals and plenty of chores. Even with that and school, hefound time for fun including the fairly new sport of baseball, and playedon town teams. He joined the volunteer fire department probably as ateenager (still considered a rite of passage by teenage Erving boys).Clyde remembers hearing about the old hand-pump fire "truck" which alsohad to be pulled by hand by several men. Quite a feat if the fire werein Farley, for instance. Of course, he had to try other places, and at least by 1907 he was in Bartow, FL as were his sister, Gertie and her husband. Leonard worked in Florida cutting pitch pine trees for the manufacture of turpentine. Somewhere along the way he also acquired some photography equipment and dabbled in that craft, although sadly, no one knows of any existing examples of his work. He must have missed New England for by 1909 he is listed in the Brattleboro city directory as working at the White River Chair Company and boarding at Stewart Place. His brother Wayne also worked in Brattleboro off and on, and in the 1910 census they were both working at the Estey Organ Factory. Leonard was twenty five and the stage was set for the next chapter in his life. Named for his long since deceased maternal grandfather, he was known from the beginning as Leonard. Perhaps because he was born in the middle ofthe winter on Northfield Mountain, his birth was never recorded in the records of either Northfield or Erving. If nobody told the town, however, somebody told the newspaper and his birth notice was published on December 21, 1885 in the Greenfield Gazetter and Courier --" In Erving,December 12, a son to Herbert J. and Addie Sargent".

  
  

• Sources

  [S44] Orcutt_001 gedcom file, Robert Waddell.