The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-10-12
HAS ATTENDED ALL REUNIONS.
Aged Reidsville Veteran Has Record
of Which He is Proud.
Spartanburg Herald.

Spartanburg Herald.
r. NJ. Leonard, Confederate veter-
an and prominent citizen Of Reds
Vile, has not missed a reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans during
the past twenty-seven years-it is a
record in which he takes great pride.
Along in the Revolutionary period
there were three brothers named Leo
nard, who left their home in Virgin
ia and travelled south on their horses.
One Of thees settled in Greensboro,
N. c., another in Haversham county,
Ca, while the third, Jonas Leonard,
settled at the spot where Sharon Bap-
tist church now stands-about two
and a half miles from Reidsville. Jo-
mas Leonard was the grandfather of
T. NJ. Leonard. His youngest son
was Robert Leonard, and when his
father died he inherited the home
place. Robert was the father Of T.
NJ. Leonard. Sharon Methodist
church was organized at this old
home place, and the father of T. M.
Leonard donated the church several
acres of land.
Confederate Army Service.
Mr.. Leonard entered the Confeder-
ate army when a lad in the fall of
1864, and was placed in company l,
4th South Carolina regiment, of
which Johi w. Ferguson, of Lau-
rens. wa scolonel; the Late Judge D.
A. Townsend, of Union, major, and
the late DR.. T. E. Wood, of Reids-
vile, captain. Terry Beacham was
first lieutenant, John Thompson, Sec
ond lieutenant, and James H. Ander-
son, of Moore, third lieutenant. Mr..
Leonard was first sergeant, and W.
D. Brandeburg, now living in Column
bia, second sergeant. William caid-
we'll and Prof. D. A. DuPre, OF Spar
tanburg, were members of this COM
pany. This command was assigned to
duty down near Savannah and Char
lesion. Mr.. Leonard is also mem
ber of the Spartanburg county pen
sion board, along with S. B. Ezeli,
chairman, and Capt. N. F. Walker.
Returning from the civil war, Mr..
Leonard engaged in merchandise bus
mess and extensive farming opera
tions. Within the past few years he
was retired from active business.
A Genuine Southerner.
No more loyal Confederate ever
donned the grey than T. NJ. Leonard.
He talks Interestingly Of the stirring
days of the sixties and the great cause
that was lost. He is on the staff OF
Gen. Washington A. Clark, comman-
der of the South Carolina Confeder-
ate Veterans, as assistant adjutant
general with the rank of major.
In Memory of His Son.
In his hospitable home in this town
in the sitting room there are num-
ber of pictures. Among them is
portrait of the late James q. Car
Isle, of Wofford college, another is
a large picture of the famous evan
selfst. Sam P. Jones; so it isn't hard
to guess to what denomination Mr..
Leonard belongs, despite the Presby-
terian atmosphere in which he has
lived and moved and had his being
so long. Among these pictures is one
hanging over the center Of the man
tie, and under it another. The first
is large portrait of Walter Guy
Leonard, who died in 1902, in his
18th year, after completing his third
vear at Wofford; he would have grad
uated with the class of '03 had he liV-
ed. The second is that Of hand
some two-story eight-room brick
dwelling that Mr.. Leonard had built
at the Epworth orphanage in Colum-
bia, the orphanage Of the Methodlsts
of the state, in memory OF his boy.
The orphanage authorities haye nam
ed it the Guy Leonard Home"