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About the Leonard William Ferguson Family:
Picture of Leonard Ferguson Family
This marriage ended in divorce.
About Leonard William Ferguson:
Leonard, like his father before him, was a longtime Kansas City Southern Railroad employee, retiring
around 1956. ..............................................................
WWI Draft Registration
Card, dated June 5, 1917: Age: 25 Born: Jan. 5, 1892, Marshall, Tex. Address: 1932 Walnut,
Shreveport, La. Married, one child Occupation: Laundry Wagon Driver, Excelsior Steam Laundry Height:
Short; Build: Stout; Eyes: Gray; Hair: Light ...............................................................
Found
in 1920 Census, LA, Caddo Parish, Shreveport Pct. 9, ED 62, Sh. 14A. Leonard Ferguson 28 (Occupation.:
wagon driver, steam laundry) Kathleen Ferguson 20 Homer Ferguson 3 8/12 Ruth E Ferguson
8/12 Leonard and family were living next door to his parents and renting a house owned by them at
1966 Walnut St. .................................................................
Found in
1930 Census, LA, Caddo Parish, Shreveport, ED 36, Sh. 7B. Address: 1451 Harvard St. William L Ferguson
36; clerk, steam railroad shop Kathleen Ferguson 29 Homer H Ferguson 14 Ruth E Ferguson
12 Leneda O Ferguson 8 Lenard W Ferguson 5 ...........................................................................
Obituary
of Leonard William Ferguson
(From Shreveport Journal)
FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN OKLAHOMA
L.
W. Ferguson Sr., of Heavener, Okla., a resident of Shreveport for 45 years, died in a hospital in Oklahoma
after a short illness.
He was an employee of Kansas City Southern until he retired nine years
ago.
Mr. Ferguson is survived by his widow; two sons, L. W. Ferguson Jr., and H. H. Ferguson;
two daughters, Mrs. James Eley, and Mrs. R. C. Hardy, all of Shreveport; his mother, Mrs. J. W. Ferguson
of Shreveport; a brother, J. A. Ferguson; sister, Mrs. Ray Wyatt and a number of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Funeral
Services are to be at Dowden Funeral Home at Heavener, Okla. at 10:00 a.m. Thursday. Other arrangements
are incomplete. ....................................................................
About Kathleen Anna Augusta Jones:
Picture of Kathleen (Jones) Ferguson
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