Person:Edith Leonard (2)

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Edith Emma Leonard
b.13 Jul 1874 Metamora, Woodford Co., IL.
d.14 May 1959 Champaign, Champaign Co., IL.
Parents and Siblings
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m. 23 Feb 1871
  1. Baby LeonardAbt 1872 -
  2. Edith Emma Leonard1874 - 1959
  3. William Henry Leonard1877 - 1878
Spouse and Children
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m. 15 Dec 1897
  1. Ray Franklin Dobbins1901 - 1974
  2. Dorothy Courtney Dobbins1903 - 1988
  3. Leonard Oliver Dobbins1907 - 1998
  4. Lloyd Dobbins1907 - 1907
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Facts and Events
Name Edith Emma Leonard
Gender Female
Birth? 13 Jul 1874 Metamora, Woodford Co., IL.
Marriage 15 Dec 1897 Ford Co., ILto Oliver Beard Dobbins
Death? 14 May 1959 Champaign, Champaign Co., IL.

1880 United States Federal Census > Illinois > Woodford > Roanoke > District 230 William Gullett 60 Prissilla Gullett 68 Fannie E. Gullett 16 Edith Leonard 4 (gr. dau.)

The year that Edith Emma was born, 1874, her family moved to Ford Co., IL. Her mother died shortly after the birth of John Henry, Dec. 24, 1878, and Edith and her baby brother were taken to Woodford Co. by the grandparents (Gulletts). The baby died the following summer and Edith remained until school age when her father brought her back to Ford Co.. She attended school in different districts where she could be boarded, spending the weekends with her father at his home. Her father remarried in 1882 to Anna Whorrell of Woodford Co. They had two sons, John Thomas and William Hendricks. About 1892 the family moved to a farm in Butler Co., KS. Edith began teaching school in Wellington, KS. After three years, she went back to Illinois and stayed with her Aunt Fanny who lived near the Union school west of Blackford. Taught school there for a year and then married O.B. Dobbins, Dec. 15, 1897.

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