This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: LEATHERMAN Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DZB.2ACI/2498 Message Board Post: MEMORIAL SKETCHES - MR. JOSEPH LEATHERMAN One of the veteran pioneers of Perry Township, Joseph Leatherman, died at his residence in Elizabethtown, Sept. 4, 1881, in the 85th year of his age. He was a native of Washington county, Pa, born there January 20th, 1797, married to Sarah Smith, April 6th, 1820 and removed to Perry Township in this county in 1827. Mrs. Leatherman died in 1867, and he contracted a second marriage in 1869, Mrs. Catherine Bishop, who survives him. Four of his six sons born to him are still living, He was a member of the Church of the Disciples in Elizabethtown, of which he had been a member almost half a century. The Newark American Friday, November 11, 1881 Courtesy Post Only