[5] At a young age, Leah was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect that led doctors to predict she would not survive childhood.

[7] After a year of teaching and still determined to find work in engineering, she applied for a position with consultants Howe & Wise.

[5] Realizing she needed a license to further her career, Moncure enrolled in the University of Texas (UT) School of Engineering.

Her work took her all over Texas: Houston, Beaumont, Lufkin and Galveston, performing such varied tasks as road design, traffic/right-of way research and studies of intersection channelizing, embankment settlement and expansion joints.

[8] Outside of her profession, she was an avid fisherman, symphony lover and member (and one time president) of the Austin Altrusa Club.

The event was hosted by the King's Highway Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR), which was instrumental in obtaining the marker, and the Bastrop County Historical Commission.

Seeing the need to share and celebrate Moncure's story, she researched and wrote the marker application as a project for the King’s Highway DAR Chapter.