Leonard Sibley 
Leonard was born in 1758 in Halifax County, VA.1 Leonard's father was Robert Sibley and his mother was Jerusha Chandler. His paternal grandparents were John Sibley and Mary Unknown. He had four brothers and a sister, named John, Elijah, Robert, Gabriel and Mary. He was the second oldest of the six children. He died at the age of 74 in 1832 in Henry county, KY.1 General Notes
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Leonard was engaged in the freighting business in prince Edward County, Virginia, until 1814. He was crippled in one leg when a wagon passed over it. He moved his family to the Henry-Trimble-Ol dham Co., Ky., area in late1814 and purchased 200 acres of land on corn Creek, near the prese nt town of Bedford, KY., and M and Nancy Tandy. The Deed is dated 16 January 1815 and was recorded 30 July 1815 at the Henry Co Clerk's Office. About1818 he purchased Fairmount Plantation n which consisted of about 600 acres and a huge, eight room log house called Fairmount, located on a promontory overlooking the Little Kentucky River. The house had separate guest rooms at each end of the front porch and massive stone chimneys at each end of the house. This home was built by Colonel William Marshall,Jr., in 1780 on land granted to him for his Revolutionary War service. Fairmount lies about three miles north of Sulphur, Ky., on the west side of the Little Kentucky River. It was owned by Coleman Mayfield Sibley in1975.
‌Leonard and Judith were married in a religious ceremony in 1784 in Prince Edward County, VA.1 They had three sons and eight daughters, named John, Albert Gallatin, William Tyree, Mary Booth (Polly), Nancy, Pamela Caroline, Elizabeth, Sallie, Harriet Lavinia, Judith and Martha A.
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