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 |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
3 Sep 1958 |
Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Buried |
8 Sep 1958 |
Long Grove Cem., Maynard, IA (funeral in Oelwein) |
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.
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Person ID |
I14512 |
Windemuth Descendents |
Last Modified |
7 Jun 1998 |
Father |
Andrew McLeish, b. Scotland , d. Maynard, Iowa |
Mother |
Katherine Strawn, b. 26 Jan 1852, Durand, Howard Twp., Winnebago Co., Illinois , d. 2 Sep 1910, Maynard, Iowa (Age 58 years) |
Married |
26 Nov 1868 |
Iowa |
Family ID |
F10366 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Jesse Taylor, b. Perth, Scotland , d. Maynard, Iowa |
Married |
18 Aug 1893 |
Children |
| 1. Gordon McLeish, b. May 1894, d. Jan 1973, California (Age ~ 78 years) |
| 2. James McLeish, b. 8 Nov 1895, d. 1977, Baker, Oregon (Age 81 years) |
| 3. Marjorie Alice McLeish, b. 9 Feb 1898, Maynard, Iowa , d. 4 Sep 1987, Maynard, Iowa (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 |
| 6. Kathryn McLeish, b. 27 Jan 1904, d. Webster City, Iowa |
| 7. John McLeish, b. 1907, d. 1907 (Age 0 years) |
| 8. Robert McLeish, b. 8 Aug 1909, Oklahoma , d. 1995, Littleton, Iowa (Age 85 years) |
| 9. Ruth Dorothy McLeish, b. 19 Jul 1915, Strawberry Piont, Iowa , d. May 1964 (Age 48 years) |
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Family ID |
F10365 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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