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Stonewall Jackson "Jack" LEESON

Stonewall Jackson "Jack" LEESON

Male 1866 - 1951  (84 years)

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  • Name Stonewall Jackson "Jack" LEESON 
    Born 28 Dec 1866  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Birth date given as Dec 28 1866 in obituary and on headstone, and age 21 at time of Aug 1888 marriage would also put birth in about 1866 or 1867. But 1900 Census shows his age as 31, with birth date Apr 1869. W.B. Haught's "Genealogy of the Haught Family of America," 1948, pp. 166 and 169, incorrectly identifies him as Jacob Leeson.
    Gender Male 
    Census 1870, 1880  Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1888  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1900  Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1908  Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Census 1910  Clay District, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1920  Southwest District, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation farmer  [5] 
    Residence 1951  Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7] 
    Died 9 Apr 1951  [2] 
    Buried White Oak ME Church Cemetery, near Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [8] 
    Person ID I5559  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 23 Oct 2018 

    Father John P. LEESON,   b. 12 Nov 1829, Doddridge Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Mar 1875, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 45 years) 
    Mother Sophia MCINTYRE,   b. CA 1844, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Jan 1920, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Family ID F3468  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Martha Alice HAUGHT,   b. 1868, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 May 1903  (Age 35 years) 
    Married 12 Aug 1888  Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [9] 
    Notes 
    • 1900 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Clay District), enumerated on Jun 12 1900:
      Jack S. Leeson, 31, farmer, married 12 yrs; wife Alice, 29, b. Sep 1870, married 12 yrs, mother of 7 children (all still living); dau Clara, 11, b. Jun 1888; dau Hattie, 9, b. Dec 1890; dau Florence, 8, b. Jun 1891; son Okey, 5, b. Jun 1894; dau Lottie, 3, b. Aug 1896; dau Lora, 2, b. May 1898; dau (unnamed), b. May 1900.

      Mary Alice Haught Leeson died iin childbirth n 1903. Stonewall Jackson Leeson remarried Susie Vanhorn in 1908.

      1910 Census, Ritchie Co, WV (Clay District), enumerated on May 3 1910:
      Stonewall J. Leeson, 43, farmer, married 2 yrs (2nd marriage); wife Susan, 49, married 2 yrs (1st marriage), no children; dau Hattie L, 18, single, clerk in grocery store; dau Florence, 17, single, servant for private family; son Okey, 15, laborer at odd jobs; son Lot, 13; dau Lora D, 11; dau Eva, 9.

      1920 Census, Doddridge Co, WV (Southwest District), enumerated on Jan 20 1920:
      Stonewall J. Leeson, 53, farmer; wife Susie, 58.

      Susie VanHorn Leeson died of tuberculosis in 1926.
    Children 
     1. Carrie Bell LEESON,   b. 22 Jun 1889, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1987  (Age 97 years)
    +2. Hattie Lee LEESON,   b. 9 Dec 1889, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Sep 1958, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    +3. Florence Edna LEESON,   b. Jun 1892, Holbrook, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Apr 1984, Grove, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 91 years)
     4. Okey LEESON,   b. 30 Jun 1894, Berea, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Oct 1918, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 24 years)
     5. Lot LEESON,   b. 17 Aug 1896,   d. 2 Oct 1912  (Age 16 years)
    +6. Lora Deloras LEESON,   b. 19 May 1898, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Aug 1977, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
     7. Mary Eva LEESON,   b. 16 May 1900, Pullman, Ritchie Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Sep 1993, Clarksburg, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years)
     8. William Allie LEESON,   b. 26 May 1903,   d. 29 Dec 1909  (Age 6 years)
    Documents
    5559_StonewallJacksonLeeson_AliceHaught_MarriageRecord_12Aug1888.jpg    		5559_StonewallJacksonLeeson_AliceHaught_MarriageRecord_12Aug1888.jpg
    Family ID F1912  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Susie VANHORN,   b. 1860, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Jul 1926, Oxford, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Married 2 Aug 1908  Gilmer Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Family ID F1913  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S14] Obituary.

    2. [S5] Headstone.

    3. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11790072&Type=Marriage.

    4. [S1739] Gilmer County WV Marriages 1845-1933, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (Jan 1989)).

    5. [S2140] 1900 Census, Ritchie County, WV (Clay District).

    6. [S1577] Obituary of sister.

    7. [S1594] Obituary of brother.

    8. [S123] Ritchie County, West Virginia Cemeteries through 1993, Ritchie County Historical Society (David M. Scott, Editor), (McClain Printing Co, Parsons, WV, 1995).

    9. [S1554] Doddridge County Marriage Records, West Union, WV, http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=11790072&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as Stonewall Jackson Leeson, 21, b. & res. in Doddridge Co; and Alice Haught, 19, b. & res. in Doddridge Co. Married Aug 12 1888 "on the public highway before witnesses," officiated by M. C. Czigans. Informants for marriage license: S. J. Leeson & D. M. Haught.

    10. [S1739] Gilmer County WV Marriages 1845-1933, (Wes Cochran, 2515 10th Ave, Parkersburg WV 26101 (Jan 1989)).
      Identified as Stonewall Leeson, widowed, age 42, b. Doddridge Co, res. Ritchie Co; and Susan Vanhorn, age 46. Married Aug 2 1908.