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Note: 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; TX TX TX: Occ.: clerk, steam railroad shop Kathleen Ferguson 29; IN Homer H Ferguson 14 ; LA Ruth E Ferguson 12 ; IN Leneda O Ferguson 8: LA Lenard W Ferguson 5 :LA ........................................................................... 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. ....................................................................
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