The C. A. McAdams FamilyOur American Rootsby Charles G. Petersen |
Staley Children |
Eunice
Family Group
Eunice married Stephen Leigh (or Lee) on May 22, 1858 in Allen
County, Ohio. Stephen was born in Allen County around 1831.
They moved immediately to Washington Township in Paulding
County, Ohio, which is on the Indiana border just a little north
of Allen County. They raised 3 children: William (b. 1859),
Wyatt (b. 1861), and Phillise Eva (b. 1864).
During there first years of marriage,
they lived on a farm with his parent
Unlike most head of households, Stephen was not a farm own,
in the 1860 and 1870 census, he is simply listed as a farm
laborer and by age 49 in 1880, he is listed as having no
occupation. By that time, they had moved to Goshen Township
in Auglaize County just south of Allen County. Stephen died before
1900, When Eunice is listed as a widow and working as a nurse
in Pleasant Township in Puttnam County, the county just north
of Allen County. Eunice apparently died before 1910 probably
in Ohio.
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