Richard Yardley Leedom

1784 - Aft 1860  (76 years)

• Name	Richard Yardley Leedom
  Birth	1784	prob Bucks Co, Pennsylvania   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Tax Lists	1809	Warwick, Bucks, Pennsylvania
  	PA
  	'Yarley' Leedom - Carp.
  Tax Lists	1815	Warwick, Bucks, Pennsylvania
  	PA
  	Richard Y Leedom - 4 acres @ $70 each, 1 cow, total value $596, tax $00.81
  Census	1820	Warwick, Bucks, Pennsylvania
  	PA
  	Yardley Leedom: 3M <10, 1M 26-45, 1F 10-16, 1F 26-45
  Census	1830	Warwick, Bucks, Pennsylvania
  	PA
  	Richard Leedom: 1m 5-10, 1m 10-15, 1m 30-40, 1f <5, 1f 5-10, 1f 15-20, 1f 30-40«b»«/b»
  Tax Lists	1843	Warwick, Bucks, Pennsylvania
  	PA
  	Richard Y. Leedom - total value $100, tax $00.20 [no specific inventory of land or livestock]
  Census	1850	Warminster, Bucks, Pennsylvania
  	PA
  	Enumerated 28 Aug, visit 39, family 40: Isaac Leedom - age 35, carpenter, b. PA Margaret - age 26, b. PA Robert P. - age 4, b. PA John - age 2, b. PA Richard Y. Leedom - age 66, carpenter, b. PA Family 41: William H. Phair - age 26, shoemaker, b. Ireland Leah - age 25, b. PA Mary Ann - age 2, b. PA Catherine - age 3 mos, b. PA Jane Phair - age 21, b. Ireland Jane Forbes - age 87, b. Ireland Twining McDowell - 19, shoemaker, b. PA James Livzey - age 19, shoemaker, b. PA Role: Household Member
  Census	1860	Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania
  	PA
  	Enumerated 22 Jun, Stewart Alms House, visit 972, family 972: Yardley Leedom - age 71, b. PA, pauper
  Occupation	House carpenter  [1]
  Death	Aft Jun 1860	prob Bucks Co, Pennsylvania
  Notes	Richard is first listed in the 1809 Tax records of Warwick as 'Yarley' Leedom - Carpenter. Richard Y. Leedom is then listed in Bucks County Tax records almost continuously from 1811 to 1844. There are several baptisms of Leedoms in the records of the Neshaminy Presbyterian Church of Warwick both as children and as adults, but that of Ann is the earliest found so far: Ann Leedom - 19 Jan 1823, residence Warwick, Adult (possibly Ann Sterling herself) There was a group of 35 adult baptisms at the Neshaminy Church on 11 May 1845 among them Matilda, Yardley, and Isaac Leedom. (Listed also was Wesley Wood, later to be the husband of Matilda Leedom. He would have been 21 years old at the time.) Sadly, there is no grouping of any sort in the listing. In the 1809 Tax list of Bucks county and in the 1820 census of Warwick Richard was referred to as 'Yarley' and 'Yardley' so it's possible that the the third adult Leedom baptism in 1845 was Richard himself and not another child. Richard resided with his son Isaac in Warminster in 1850, named as Richard Y. Leedom. His wife, Ann, had died in 1833 and his son James had died in 1835. Isaac himself would die in 1852 in Dauphin Co, PA. A 71 year old Yardley Leedom is listed in the Bucks County Alms House in the 1860 census, enumerated 22 Jun. This might be Richard despite the possible age discrepancy. His birth year of 1784 is given only in The Leedom Family with no source cited. It is possibly Richard and Ann's two sons who were listed in the Warwick township Lists of Poor Children, 1824-1830. Both Isaac and James were listed in 1824 and in 1825. There are no other Leedom children in the Warwick township list in those two or any other years.
  Person ID	I5218	Ives-Leedom
  Last Modified	1 Aug 2023

  
  

  Father	John Leedom,   b. 23 Apr 1759, Middletown Twp, Bucks, Pennsylvania d. Bef 9 Apr 1818, prob Southampton, Bucks, Pennsylvania (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Anna Yardley,   b. 27 Mar 1766, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania d. Aft Dec 1827, prob Bucks Co, Pennsylvania (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1784
  Family ID	F450	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Sterling,   b. Abt 1793, poss Pennsylvania d. 27 Oct 1833, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 40 years)
  Marriage	5 Feb 1811	Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania   [2]
  Children	1. Margaret Leedom,   b. 24 Dec 1813, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania d. 19 Jun 1904, Arcola, Douglas, Illinois (Age 90 years)   2. Isaac Leedom,   b. Abt 1817, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania d. 18 Aug 1852, Middletown, Dauphin, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 35 years)   3. James Leedom,   b. Cal 3 Nov 1818, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania d. 4 Apr 1835, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 16 years)   4. Matilda Leedom,   b. Abt 1828, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania d. 31 Aug 1885, Bucks Co, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 57 years)
  Family ID	F3488	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022

  
  

• Sources

  [S125] Sara A.L. Eachus, Leedom Family, (Dorrance & Co. 1982), CS71 .L4815 1982. [S611] Marriage notice.