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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; 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. ....................................................................
About Kathleen Anna Augusta Jones:
Found in 1940 Census, LA, Caddo Parish, Shreveport, ED 9-33A, sh. 7A. Addr: 1451 Harvard Ave. Household
Members: Katherine Ferguson 38 (Kathleen) Ruth Ferguson 21 Lenda Ferguson 18 (Leneda) Leonard
Ferguson 16 .................................................................
Obituary - Kathleen
Ferguson Spring
Graveside services for Mrs. Kathleen Ferguson Spring, 92, of Shreveport, were
held at 10 a.m., Monday, September 16, at Greenwood Cemetery, with the Rev. Crawford Williams, pastor
ofI ngleside Baptist Church, officiating. Arrangements were under the direction of Rose-Neath's Southside
Chapel.
Mrs. Spring, a native of Washington, Indiana, died Saturday, Sept. 14, at Westwood Manor
Nursing Home, following a long illness. She was a homemaker, and member of the Ingleside BaptistChurch.
She
is survived by two sons, L. W. Ferguson, and Homer H. Ferguson, both of Zwolle; one daughter, Leneda
Eley of Shreveport; one sister, Stella Mae Lones of Lima, Ohio; two brothers, Lev Jones of Lima, Pirkie
Jones of California; numerous grandchildren; great grandchildren; nieces and nephews .................................................................
Picture of Kathleen (Jones) Ferguson
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