John Robert Leeth

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as John Leith, in the household of Perry Leith
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as John Leeth, in the household of Perry Leeth
• Census: 1880, Bokes Creek Township, Logan County, Ohio, United States; as John R. Leeth, farmer, head of household
• Residence: 1881, Paulding County, Ohio, United States
• History / Bio: 1892; Historical Atlas of Paulding Count, Ohio (Madison, Wisconsin: Western Publishing Co., 1892), p61
• Census: 1900, Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; as John Leeth, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1910, Sheridan Township, Clare County, Michigan, United States; as John R. Leeth, farmer, head of household
• Newspaper: Jul 1911; The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana), July 1911, p29

Notes:

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
John Leeth and daughter, of Clare, Mich. are guests of his daughter, Mrs. Jonas Cromley. (The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, July 15, 1911, pg. 29 Digital copy in file)

History / Bio:

John R. Leeth, a highly respected citizen of Harrison township, is a native of Pike county, Ohio, and dates his birth from the 11th of February, 1850. His parents, Perry and Lydia (Parker) Leeth, were of Irish origin and reared their son to manhood on the farm, giving him a common school education. In 1881 he removed to this county, where he has since resided, and owns a good farm, which is well cultivated. The marriage of Mr. Leeth with Miss Almira Rose, the daughter of William and Malinda J. Roberts, of German extraction, occurred on the 31st of December, 1876, and unto this union have been born these children: Algon (deceased), Lydia J. Lenora, Fairy, Andrew A., and Michael M. Mrs. Leeth was born in Gallia county, Ohio, June 26 1828. Her husband is a democrat, and the family are members of the United Brethren church.

John married Almira Rose on 31 Dec 1876 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. Almira was born on 26 Jun 1858 in Gallia County, Ohio, United States; died on 11 Mar 1911 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States; was buried in Mar 1911 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Lydia J. Leeth was born about Dec 1879 in Ohio, United States; and died.
2. Leonora Leeth was born on 2 Dec 1881 in Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; died on 29 Jul 1962 in Paulding, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; was buried in 1962 in Antwerp, Paulding County, Ohio, United States.
3. Fairy Belle Leeth was born on 28 Jun 1884 in Paulding County, Ohio, United States; died on 31 Aug 1938 in Sheridan Township, Clare County, Michigan, United States.
4. Andrew McClellan Leeth was born on 10 Sep 1887 in Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; died on 21 Jan 1960 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States; was buried on 25 Jan 1960 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States.
5. Michael Maloy Leeth was born on 19 Aug 1890 in Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; and died.
6. Algon Leeth was born on 25 Dec 1892 in Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; died on 25 Dec 1892 in Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States.
7. Bertha Alba Leeth was born on 25 Dec 1893 in Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; died on 29 Jan 1929 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States; was buried on 1 Feb 1929 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States.
8. Madona Grace Leeth was born on 11 Jan 1897 in Paulding County, Ohio, United States; died on 22 May 1970 in Michigan, United States; was buried on 25 May 1970 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States.
9. Giles Edward Leeth was born on 7 Aug 1899 in Harrison Township, Paulding County, Ohio, United States; died on 10 Nov 1974 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States; was buried on 13 Nov 1974 in Clare, Clare County, Michigan, United States.

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Perry Leith, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Perry Leeth, farmer, head of household
• Military: 1 Aug 1863, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; registered for the Civil War Draft
• Census: 1870, Benton Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Perry Leeth, farmer, head of household
• Beneficiary: 10 Jun 1874; in the will of his father, James Leeth
• Census: 1880, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Perry Leeth, farmer, head of household

Notes:

Mentioned in the will of James Leeth as son Perry Leath.

Perry married Lydia Parker on 4 May 1845 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. Lydia was born about 1826 in Ohio, United States; died on 23 Jun 1892 in Pike County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Jun 1892 in Waverly, Pike County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Lydia Leith, in the household of Perry Leith
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Lydia Leeth, in the household of Perry Leeth
• Census: 1870, Benton Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Lydia Leeth, in the household of Perry Leeth
• Census: 1880, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Lydia Leeth, wife, in the household of Perry Leeth

Other Events:

• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as James Leith, farmer, head of household
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as James Leeth, Jr., in the household of J. B. Newland
• Census: 1870, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as James Leeth, farmer, head of household
• Will: 10 Jun 1874, Pike County, Ohio, United States
• Probate: 18 Jul 1874, Pike County, Ohio, United States

Notes:

Will:

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JAMES LEETH
—In the name of the Benevolent Father of All: I James Leeth of Pike County Ohio do make and publish this my last will and testament.
—Item 1st. I give and device to my beloved wife all my real estate also my goods and chattels that I may be possessed of during her natural life however selling so much thereof as may be sufficient to pay my just debts. At the death of my said wife the real estate aforesaid I give and devise to my sons Perry Leeth, Levi Leeth, John Leeth, James P. Leeth Samuel Leeth and Elias Leeth each an equal share and to their heirs.
—2d. I give and bequeath to the heirs of my son Jesse dec’d one hundred and fifty dollars. Also to the heirs of James Newland and Louisa Newland’s heirs the sum of fifty dollars. Also to Samantha Monroe one hundred dollars to be paid out of my estate after the death of my wife by my executor. I do hereby nominate and appoint my son Perry Leath Executor of this my last will and testament. I also authorize him to sell so much of my personal property as will pay my just debts. In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 10th day of June 1874.
James Leeth (seal)
Signed and acknowledged by said James Leeth as his last will and testament in our presence
And signed by us in his presence.
S. H. McKee
S. W. Shaw

James married Basheba Walls on 13 Feb 1824 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. Basheba (daughter of Levi Walls, Jr. and Susannah Harmanson) was born on 2 Jul 1803 in Pike County, Ohio, United States; died on 3 Feb 1887 in Buchanan, Pike County, Ohio, United States; was buried in Feb 1887 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Bathsheba Walls
• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Aheshaba Leith, in the household of James Leith
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Bathsheba Leeth, in the household of J. B. Newland
• Census: 1870, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Barbara Leeth, in the household of James Leeth
• Beneficiary: 10 Jun 1874; in the will of her husband, James Leeth
• Census: 1880, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States

Other Events:

• Census: 1820, Sunfish Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, head of household
• Census: 1830, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, head of household
• Census: 1840, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, head of household
• Property: 25 Apr 1849, Pike County, Ohio, United States; purchased 50 acres for $100 from John C. Rainey; Address:
  (part of entry #14633)
• Property: 11 May 1849, Pike County, Ohio, United States; purchased 40 acres for $75 from John C. Rainey; Address:
  (part of entry #14633)
• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, farmer, head of household
• Property: 30 Jul 1858, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; sold 80 acres for $500 to James Walls; Address:
  part of Entry and Survey No 4271 being Entered by Andrew Ellison
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Levi Walls, farmer, head of household

Notes:

Property:

Signed: John C. Rainey
Witness: Elza Walls and James Wallace Walls
v11, p282

Property:

Signed: Levi (his mark) Walls and Susan (her mark) Walls
Witness: Saml Shattuck and Elias (his mark) Walls
v17, p323

Levi married Susannah Harmanson about 1805 in Monongalia County, Virginia, United States. Susannah (daughter of Levin Harmanson and Mary Woodard) was born on 16 Jul 1788 in Delaware, United States; died in 1874 in Pike County, Ohio, United States; was buried in 1874 in Pike County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Susan Harmanson
• Name: Susannah Harnarson
• Census: 1850, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Susannah Walls, in the household of Levi Walls
• Census: 1860, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Susan Walls, in the household of Levi Walls
• Census: 1870, Pebble Township, Pike County, Ohio, United States; as Susan Walls, in the household of her son James Walls
• Newspaper: 26 Feb 1874; Pike County Republican (Waverly, Ohio), 26 February 1874
• Property: 27 May 1875, Pike County, Ohio, United States; sold 83 acres for $900.00 to James W. Thompson; Address:
  (part of A. Ellisons Survey #4271)

Notes:

Newspaper:

OLD FOLKS INTERVIEWED NO. XXVIII
Susan Wall,
"I was born in Delaware. The exact year I do not know, but suppose I will be 86 years of age on the 16th of July next. My father's name was Levin Harnarson, he died when I was three years old. My mother's name was Mary Woodard. They had only two children, myself and Sabra. She married Elias Walls, brother to my husband. About 4 years after my father's death, my mother married Levi Wall and they moved to West Virginia, near Morgantown in Monongalia County There we lived till I was about 18 years of age when they came to Pike County, Ohio, and settled in the wilderness of Leeth Creek, in Pebble Township, and I have lived on Leeth Creek ever since. My mother had six children by Levi Wall, and when we came to Ohio besides Sabra and myself there were Samuel, Elizabeth, Sarah and Thomas and they had born to them in Pike County, Fanny and Lemuel. When my mother married Levi Wall, he was a widower with six children. But none of them came to Ohio with us, except my husband.
When we arrived on Leeth Creek there were but two inhabited cabins on it, and they belonged to Elias Wall, brother to my husband who came here several years before our family did, and the other was occupied by Elizabeth Lane on the place known as the Levi Russel farm, which adjoins the farm owned by my husband, and which I have lived nearly all the time since I came from Virginia.
I married Levi Wall, in Virginia and had been married upwards of a year when we moved to Ohio. My husband bought land on Leeth Creek which now adjoins the infirmary farm near Idaho. He went to work and erected a cabin. Besides the two cabins spoken of above, there was one old uninhabited one in Idaho, near where the old saw mill was. My stepfather chinked and repaired that old cabin and moved into it where he lived several years, when he bought and moved farther up on Leeth Creek, where he built and lived some years, when he moved to Bear creek in Scioto County, where he died 46 or 47 years ago.
I have had eleven children viz. Bashiba, Levin, Elias, Levi, Joshua, Samuel, Mary, Matilda, Elizabeth, Nancy and James. I raised all of them all to manhood and womanhood, and all married except Levin, Elizabeth and Samuel. They are dead and so is Mary. Bashiba married James Leeth, by whom she had ten children; Elias married Malinda Wall and had eight children, when she died, and he married Margaret Shattuck by whom he had six children. Levi married Mary Ann Wallace who have had nine children. Joshua married Amy Wall and had seven children, when she died, and Joshua married for his second wife Margaret Haines, by whom he had three children. Mary married James Leeth and had by him 10 children. Matilda married Cornelius Leeth by whom she had had seven children. Nancy married John Leeth by whom she had had eleven children. James the youngest married Mary Shattuck by whom they have had ten children, of whom nine are living.
I have had eleven children, eighty-one grandchildren, ninty six great grandchildren, and five great great grandchildren, a total of one hundred and ninety-three, much the greater part of whom are living.
My husband answered to the famous general call in 1814 left home, but when examined by the surgeon was pronounced unable to bear the fatigues of soldier life, so he returned home. He lived to be 85 years of age and died 10 years ago last June. His remains were deposited in Leeth Creek burying ground only a short distance from where he lived since we came together to Ohio, and where a number of his children, grand children, and other kinfolks lie buried. I am living with James, my youngest son.
My experience in life has been that of people generally in agricultural districts, who have lived from young womanhood in one locality. But while I have lived on in the even tenor of life, great changes have been wrought in the world's history, which I leave others to chronicle, the knowledge of which is to be perpetuated by future generations through the instrumentality of the art of printing."

Property:

Signed: Susan (her mark) Walls, James (his mark) Walls and Mary Walls
Witness: H. W. Overman and Saml. Shattuck
v24, p174

Notes:

Married:
now West Virginia