Lenard's Rock is identified in the 1913 Sherman County atlas in the center of Section 8, T1N, R19E. Information will be welcome and appreciated concerning the Rock in this atlas. Is it the same as the one described below? Some clues. The Sherman County Historical Society moved, preserved and erected a six-foot basalt column in 1993 on the road from Wasco to McDonald, near the Oregon Trail Crossing of the John Day River. It had been removed from its original site long before that, and reportedly broken in two parts by a road grader after that. It appears that inscriptions include: / D.T.H. / OCT 17 / R / R / JAN 9 / 1891 / --7 / CHAS BO / LA GRAVES / Oct 1. Not in any particular order. Daniel G. Leonard lived on the John Day River at the Oregon Trail Crossing site and operated Leonard's Ferry and Leonard's Bridge at his stage stop. He settled on the John Day River in 1861, built the bridge in 1863 with his partner, Underwood. In the 1860 census of Wasco County, OR, Fall River [Deschutes River] Precinct, P.O. Cascades, he was 40 b NH, wife Sarah 24 b TN, child Francis, 2 born OR. In the 1870 census he lived E of the Deschutes River in Wasco County, in the household of Edward L. Grimes and his family. He was born ca. 1818 in Vermont/NH and was shot to death at his place in 1878. He is buried in Pioneer Cemetery in The Dalles, OR. Reportedly he married first a woman who divorced him about 1855; had a common-law wife Sarah [Elrod] Jaquith who separated from him ca. 1870s; married Marie Gysin, a Swiss/French immigrant, license May 18, 1875 Multnomah County, OR. Ed Irby of Arlington, OR in 1979 reported that Dan Leonard was the father of his mother-in-law. Dan and Sarah apparently had four children, two that died by 1870, Frances and George who were living in 1870. Sarah lived at the John Day River home in the late 1850s until ca 1878. Marie/Mary Leonard was accused of shooting Leonard and was acquitted. She became Oregon's first female lawyer ca 1885 and had a siter Rosa Schlickeiser who lived in or near Wilsonville and died 1912 in Multnomah County. References: 1860 and 1870 Wasco County, OR Censuses; Oregon Historical Society Quarterly June 1955, page 126; Pioneer Graveyard in The Dalles, OR; With Her Own Wings p 206; The Columbia Gorge Story by Warren, 1977; Fred Decker, a Corvallis, OR writer, in the Sherman County Journal, July 29, 1976. Submitted by Sherry Kaseberg, Wasco, OR. Visit the National-Award-Winning Sherman County Historical Museum Moro, Oregon www.shermanmuseum.org/ May through October Daily 10-5 [email protected] USGenWeb - www.rootsweb.com/~orsherma/index.htm