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    John Strawn McLeish

    Male 1869 - 1958  (88 years)


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    • Name John Strawn McLeish 
      Born 20 Sep 1869  Jefferson Township, 2 1/2 miles South Maynard, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Male 
      Died 3 Sep 1958  Colorado Springs, Colorado Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Buried 8 Sep 1958  Long Grove Cem., Maynard, IA (funeral in Oelwein) Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Notes 
      • William Durne Milne (who married Jesse's sister, Eliza) and John McLeish had gone to the same school. So William brought John with him when he came to visit his Uncle at Christmas time. His Uncle lived across the street from the McWilliams.
        This is how Eliza met William and her sister, Jesse, met John McLeish. Jesse and John were married that same year.
      • The year John and Jessie were married, 1893, was the same year as the year the World's Fair was held in Chicago. Andrew McLeish, John's father, suggested that that John and Jesse keep house for John's siblings while Andrew and Katherine went to
        the World's Fair. But John and Jesse went on their honeymoon instead so Eliza went to the Andrew McLeish home and helped John's sister, Maggie, who was only 13 and very pretty.
      • John's father, Andrew, gave him 80 acres of farmland from the homestead in Jefferson Township, Fayette County, Iowa - 2 1/2 miles south of Maynard, Iowa. They farmed here until 1908 at which time John sold his land and moved his family to Texas
        where he purchased land. They built a house and a barn but they had no crops.So after a year, they went to Oklahoma and picked cotton. This is where there daughter Kathryn started Kindergarden.
      • They then came back to Iowa and lived near Strawberry Point and Oran. Sometime after 1915, they moved to a farm one mile north of Louie Barks farm which was 2 1/2 mile north of Maynard, Iowa.
      • When his wife died in 1934, Andrew moved to Colorado. He died there in Colorado Springs in 1958 at the age of 89. He was buried September 8, 1958 in Oelwein, Iowa.
      Person ID I14512  Windemuth Descendents
      Last Modified 7 Jun 1998 

      Father Andrew McLeish,   b. Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Maynard, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Mother Katherine Strawn,   b. 26 Jan 1852, Durand, Howard Twp., Winnebago Co., Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Sep 1910, Maynard, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 58 years) 
      Married 26 Nov 1868  Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F10366  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family Jesse Taylor,   b. Perth, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Maynard, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Married 18 Aug 1893 
      Children 
       1. Gordon McLeish,   b. May 1894,   d. Jan 1973, California Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years)
       2. James McLeish,   b. 8 Nov 1895,   d. 1977, Baker, Oregon Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years)
       3. Marjorie Alice McLeish,   b. 9 Feb 1898, Maynard, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Sep 1987, Maynard, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 89 years)
       4. Eva McLeish,   b. 1899,   d. 1899  (Age 0 years)
       5. Nell Della Emma McLeish,   b. 11 Nov 1901,   d. Oelwein, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location
       6. Kathryn McLeish,   b. 27 Jan 1904,   d. Webster City, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location
       7. John McLeish,   b. 1907,   d. 1907  (Age 0 years)
       8. Robert McLeish,   b. 8 Aug 1909, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1995, Littleton, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 85 years)
       9. Ruth Dorothy McLeish,   b. 19 Jul 1915, Strawberry Piont, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. May 1964  (Age 48 years)
      Family ID F10365  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart