Leonard Hancock
submitted June 2008 "I don't have any stories on [Uncle] Leonard while at Croft. My family didn't talk
about him much when I was growing up. I only saw him a handful of
times, typically around the holidays.
Uncle Leonard was born in Williston, SC
in 1906.
As a child, he witnessed the hardships that come with sharecropping;
and with the case of his uncles, gambling and bootlegging. That
said, his family moved to Rochester, NY in the early 1920's. The
family had a bad taste in their collective mouths about SC."
[Leonard Hancock was a resident of NJ
when he was drafted into service in September of 1941 at the age of
36.]
submitted by,
George Geder
all photos courtesy of George Geder |
