• Leonard was a member of the Mormon Battalion.  According to the Journal History, 18 August 1846, 5, he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the way to California, about four miles west of the Kaw River, by Levi M. Hancock.

Levi W. Hancock/Jefferson Hunt/James Pace/Andrew Lytle Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 17

Sources

• Eleventh Quorum of Seventies, Minutes, May 19, 1852, vol. 1, in Seventies Quorum, Records, CR 499, reel 34.
• Journal History, 18 August 1846, 5.
• Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 23.