Andrew S. Leedom

1840 - 1905  (64 years)

• Name	Andrew S. Leedom
  Birth	13 Sep 1840	Radnor, Delaware, Pennsylvania   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Apr 1905	West Conshohocken, Montgomery, Pennsylvania   [1, 3]
  Burial	17 Apr 1905	Riverside Cemetery, Norristown, Montgomery, Pennsylvania   [4]
  Notes	Age 10 in 1850 Radnor, Delaware PA census. Farmed until 1861 when he enlisted for three months in Company D, Fourth Pennsylvania Infantry. Following that term he enlisted in Company I, 51st Pennsylvania. Participated in battles of Roanoke Island, New Berne, Second Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam and Fredericksburg, in the last of which a minnie ball discolated his left wrist seriously enough to force his discharge. - Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Montgomery County by«b» «/b»edited by Samuel T. Wiley, p. 212 Some time ago I had found a burial record for an Andrew Leedom at Riverside Cemetery in Montgomery Co PA but did not know until finding his bio that the burial record was for this Andrew. Leedom, Andrew 1840-1904 Sgt, Co I, 51st PA Also listed is another Leedom: Leedom, Isaac 1830-1903 Pvt, Co H, 15th PA Cavalry The dates for both Andrew and Isaac do match the 1850 census birth year approximations for the two sons of John Leedom and Susannah Steel. Maris Family in the United States: Married Sallie Taylor Samuel Wiley source, page 212: Andrew married Sarah E. Saylor, daughter of Richard A. Saylor of Conshohocken, on 26 Feb 1874. Death date and middle inital from Civil War pension application, image on file. Civil War pension file, I 51 & D ? PA Inf Widow: Sarah E. Invalid: 12 May 1863, Application No. 2213(0?)4, Certificate No. 14600 Widow: 16 May 1905, Application No. 828257, filed PA Photocopy of pension index card on file.
  Person ID	I11842	Ives-Leedom
  Last Modified	13 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	John Leedom,   b. 17 Aug 1799, Concord Twp, Delaware, Pennsylvania d. 12 Jan 1860, Upper Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Susannah M. Steel,   b. 22 Apr 1806, Delaware Co, Pennsylvania d. 20 Feb 1882, Conshohocken, Montgomery, Pennsylvania (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1823	Radnor, Delaware, Pennsylvania
  Family ID	F865	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah E. Saylor,   b. Abt 1849   d. 23 Jun 1906, New York City, New York (Age ~ 57 years)
  Marriage	26 Feb 1874
  Family ID	F5470	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2010

  
  

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  [S268] Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Montgomery County, ((Philadelphia, Biographical Pub. Co., 1895)), 25 Mar 2006, p. 211. [S523] Quaker Meeting record, Radnor MM. [S523] Quaker Meeting record, Gwynedd MM. [S310] Obituary.