Regiment: 21st United States Colored Troops
Company: C
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 11 May 1863 at Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 25 April 1866 at Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Copy of portrait of Leonard Wilson Roane.
Leonard Wilson Roane (8 September 1874-21 December 1912), the son of Patrick Henry Roane, Sr. and Susan Price, was born on 18 September 1874 in Varina, Henrico County, Virginia, United States. He married Julia Ella Bates on 1 April 1896 in Varina. They were the parents of two daughters Susan "Susie" Julia Roane and Ella Bates Roane. He later married Abigail "Abbie" Smith.
Leonard worked as a shipbuilding engineer in Newport News, Virginia, where he died on 21 December 1912.
He was the 4x great-grandson of Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia and Revolutionary War Patriot.
Leslie Stainton tells the story of her ancestor who became an enslaver after first coming to the United States "impoverished". His family became so prominent, they were well known to author Margaret Mitchell, whose novel romanticizes Southern plantations of this era.
