Person: Mary Louise Leonard

• Oklahoma Allottee

  Kansas Allottee

  Treaty Reserve Recipient

  Myaamia Language Source

  Nationality: Myaamia
  Family Group: Roubidoux & Leonard
• ID: 2369
  

  Gender: Female

  Date of Birth: Knw 09-04-1830
  Location of Birth: Fort Wayne, Indiana

  Date of Death: Knw 02-28-1894
  Location of Death: N/A
• Biography/Notes:
  Mary Louisa Roubidoux was born on the reserve of her grandmother Josette Beaubien, near Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was the sister of Eecipoonkwia (John Baptiste Roubidoux), who would become chief of the Miami Nation in Kansas. It appears that her family moved north and settled in Michigan for a period of time prior to the removal of the Myaamia from Indiana. This move was possibly caused by the death of her father Joseph Roubidoux in 1842. While there, in 1851, she married Moses Leonard. In the 1860s, Mary and Moses rejoined their relatives in Kansas, where she and her children were allotted land. Their daughter Mary Bridget Leonard married David Geboe and received her own allotment. One of the eldest allottees, Mary Louisa died just a few years after the allotment process was completed.