Misc. Notes
He began the Moody ancestry research from Edmund Moody to Leonard Warren Moody employing the eminent genealogist, Donald Lines Jacobus, and The College of Arms, London. A copy of this genealogy was found in the effects of Leonard Wood Moody, after his death in 1969, by his son David Leonard Moody, who continued the work. He was age 1 and living with parents at 423 Franklin Street, Elmira, New York in 1880.
®76 He was 8 years old when he moved with his parents to Gardner, Kansas in 1887. On 1 March 1895 he was 16 and lived in Gardner, Kansas with his father, mother and sister Laura L., age 4.
®222 His father died in 1896 when he was 17. On the 1900 US Census he is 20 years old and living with the family of his uncle, Franklin Washburn, at 921 Clain? Street, Racine, Wisconsin, while attending school.
®248 He was an agent for the New York Life Insurance in Iola, Kansas, and then moved to Kansas City to become superintendent of the Kansas agents for Equitable Life Insurance Company (from the Iola Register). Miss Smith, of London, met Leonard on a trip to America in 1904. The wedding was planned for San Francisco on 15 Mar 1905. Miss Smith embarked from England on 15 February 1905 on the steamer Baltic. When Leonard, who was in Salt Lake City on business, heard of her arrival in New York, he arranged for her to meet him and they were married on 27 Feb 1905 in Salt Lake City. On the 23 April 1910 US Census he was a stock broker and he and Helen were lodging at the Chicago Beach Hotel, Chicago, Illinois. On 12 Sep 1918 he lived at the Westgate Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri while his wife lived at the Carlton Hotel in Kansas City. He worked for the Thomas Rudy? Insurance Company at 605 Republic Building in Kansas City. He was 5 feet 10 Inches tall, of slender build with brown eyes and gray hair.
®36 From August-September 1927 they lived at 36 Dunbarton Road, Brixton Hill, London S.W. 2, England (was this his wife’s former home?) On 4 Oct 1927 he sailed from Southampton, England to New York on the SS Olympic. His address was 156 Liberty Street, New York City. He worked in New York City for the Petroleum Conversion Corporation, 136 Liberty St. in 1928. On the US Census of 8 April 1930 he was a securities broker and he and Helen lived in Apartment 715 they rented for $85 per month in a building on Austin Street between 82nd Drive and Sefferts Boulevard in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. In 1942 on his Draft Registration Card he and Helen lived at 83-46 118 Street, Kew Garden, Long Island, New York. He was self employed in mining in Dillon, Montana. He died in 1946 at Jackson, Montana, 50 miles from Dillon where he was staying at the Andrews Hotel while working a mining deal at the Saginaw Mines. He was buried in Dillon, Montana. His nephew Leonard Wood Moody made an effort to have him disinterred and reburied in Gardner, Kansas.
Was he disinterred and reburied in Gardner, Kansas? (He is not listed in the Gardner, Kansas cemetery where his parents are interred.) Check the SS death index.
From August-September 1927 they lived at 36 Dunbarton Road, Brixton Hill, London S.W. 2, England (was this his wife’s former home?)