Obediah Leonard NC-KY 1878 newspaper
The Kentucky Advocate (newspaper) of DanvilleBoyle Co., Ky issue of Friday -15 Mar 1878
Lincoln Co., Ky..."Obediah Leonard's Secret".
45 years ago, Obediah Leonard, who is now 93 came to the Green River region in this county from North Carolina. He got a position as a laborer on a farm and in the course of time fell in love & married a woman much younger than himself.A thrifty family grew up around them....she imagined that she was his only love, perhaps she would have died in this belief had not two of the sons, hearing of the whereabouts of their father, come all the way, one from Wisconsin & the other from Missouri to look upon his face again in the flesh.Of course the old man did not recognize them, but a recital of some of the occurences of the long dead past convinced him that they were really his sons, and he fell upon their necks & wept.The boys who are rapidly descending the decline of life, one is 53 & the other 58, say that many years ago Mr. Leonard married their mother & to him was born 7 children, that a misunderstanding caused a separation of man & wife and finally a divorce was obtained.The old man then started off across the country and was never heard of by his family till recently and thus was a secret which had been kept for 48 years revealed to the public.
NOTE: I know nothing further of this family, this was just an old newspaper article I ran across.