Person:Jefferson Leavell (1)

The DOW FAMILY TREE at http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/26288863/person/12242005201?ssrc= says Thomas Jefferson Leavell died 17 Feb 1890 in Wayne County, Indiana, and is buried in Brick Cemetery, Wayne County, IN.

Memoirs of Wayne County and the city of Richmond, Indiana; from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Wayne County Vol. 2, page 445-6 Moses Keever, one of the prominent agriculturists of Jefferson township, was born in Wayne county, Indiana, Jan. 25, 1870. His father, Jackson Keever, was born in Wayne county, and the grandfather, Joseph Keever, was the father of ten children: Malinda married John Brooks, Seneca married Phoebe Waltz, Moses was the third and Jackson was the fourth in order of birth, Joseph died in 1844, William married Anna Bales, Margaret married Alahlon Beeson, Miles married Margaret Lamb and after her death Ellen Martin, Abram married Mary Jackson, and Mary J. married Warren Lowrey. The father, Jackson Keever, followed agricultural pursuits all his active career, lie was domestic in his tastes and lumest and honorable in all the relations of life, lie was a prominent Democrat and his religious faith was expressed by membership in the United Brethren church, lie married Miss Mary E. Fleming, daughter of David ami Lucy (McMurray) Fleming, of Wayne county, and of this union were horn seven children: Marcus, who is a mechanic in New Castle, married Martha Mahoney; Ella is the widow of Jefferson Leavell and has a daughter, Daisy, who is a graduate of the Hagerstown High School and has for many years devoted her time and attention to leaching; Katy died in childhood; Granville, a mechanic at Muncie, lnd., married Minnie Abbott and the)' have a daughter, Eva; William died in childhood; Moses is the next in order of birth; and Elizabeth is the wife of Harrison V. Brown, of Muncie, lnd., and they have a son, Robert. She graduated in the Hagerstown High School in 1893 and devoted several years to teaching, in the meantime graduating in the State Normal School.