Leo Mitchell

Name: Leo Mitchell
Alias: Leo McClay Mitchell
Birth Name: Leon Kennesaw Mitchell
Hometown: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthplace: Mulberry, Kansas, USA
Died: 1938-10-08 (Age:31)
Pro Boxer: Record

Leo Mitchell, brother of of fellow boxer Andy Mitchell, started his pro career as a light-heavyweight on the American West Coast before moving to Wilkes-Barre, PA. (See also the Sept. 1930 The Ring magazine, p. 59.)

According to a news item in digital form with the caption, "Three Killed In Car Crash," in the October 9, 1938 edition of the Los Angeles Times on Newspapers.com, Leo Mitchell, a 29-year-old "Long Beach light-heavyweight boxer," died of injuries that he sustained when his motor vehicle struck another motor vehicle on the "Coast Highway" in Seal Beach, California on Friday night (October 7, 1938).

According to a record in digital form on the California, Death Index, 1905-1939 database on Ancestry.com, one Leo M. Mitchell, 31 years of age, died in Orange County, California on October 8, 1938.

According to a copy of his marriage license in digital form on the California, County Marriages, 1850-1952 database on the FamilySearch genealogical website, one Leo McClay Mitchell, a 29-year-old native of Kansas and a resident of Long Beach, California, married Lucille Natallie Masserdotti in Long Beach, California on July 28, 1937. It was Leo's second marriage. At the time of the marriage, Leo was working in the "S. Police."

According to his page on Eve's Leaves Family Tree by 2Evie2 on the Family Tree Section of Ancestry.com, one Leon Kennesaw Mitchell was born in Mulberry, Kansas on July 26, 1907 and died in Seal Beach, California on October 8, 1937.