Smith Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Henry Leonard
INDEPENDENCE, VA — Tyson Leonard, of Independence, Virginia, was born in Swainsboro, Georgia, in 1939 to Elizabeth Tyson Leonard and P.D. Leonard Sr and died of natural causes in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Jan. 15, 2020, surrounded by family. His ancestors were early settlers of Emanuel County, Georgia and Davidson County, North Carolina, having descended from Valentine Leonard, the first Leonard to arrive in the North Carolina Piedmont. Tyson grew up on North Main Street in...
