STEUBEN REPUBLICAN, Wednesday, December 18, 1895, pg. 1, col.1

HENRY F. LEAVITT

	Mr. Henry F. Leavitt, aged 70 years, brother of Geo. P. 
Leavitt, died at his home in Garnett, Kansas, on Wednesday, 
December 4.  He was sick only a short time.  The deceased was 
born on September 8, 1895, at Warren, Trumbull county, Ohio, 
and came to Kansas in 1891, and located at Garnett where he 
engaged principally in farming, although he lived in town.  
Mrs. Jennie Smith Leavitt, his wife, whom he married in 1860, 
at Angola, Indiana, still survives him.  No chidren were born 
to them.  Besides Geo. P. Leavitt, of this city, there are two 
other brothers, H. H. and J. H. Leavitt, who reside in 
Anderson county.  Also he leaves a sister, Mrs. B. D. Green, 
living in Watseka, Ill.  There, too, his mother lives, a 
hearty matron at the ripe old age of 99 years.  Funeral 
services were held on the 6th inst. At Garnett, Kan., and 
interment in Elmwood cemetery, Paola, Kan.  Mr. Leavitt was 
well known and highly respected throughout eastern Kansas, and 
in fact wherever his business called him.  He was a useful 
citizen, an honest, upright man.  Paola, Kansas, Western 
Spirit.