| Fifth Generation - Stella Leach daughter of Frances, granddaughter of Wesley Harvey, g-granddaughter of Michael, g-g grand daughter of Nathan of Nathan |
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| Stella Leach was born to Frances Ann Maddox and George Woodward Leach on April 26,1873. George Woodward Leach was born December 31, 1850 and died September 28, 1873 aged 22yrs. 8 mo. 28 days. After her father's death, Stella and her mother Frances lived with Wesley Harvey Maddox, Stella's grandfather. |
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| MADDOX FAMILY HISTORY |
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| Circa 1883 J.L. Rhine Studio Montpelier |
| Circa 1888 - Ben Ashbaugher Studio Bluffton |
| Circa 1889 - inscribed on back "teachers who attended Normal School in Bluffton" |
| Circa 1889 - inscribed on back "teachers who attended Normal School in Bluffton" |
| Circa 1889 - Ben Ashbaugher Studio Bluffton |
| Stella Leach was reported to have been a school teacher in Wells County, Indiana. Stella can be seen in the first photo in front of the tall gentleman in the back row. |
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| "...as I look back on my childhood, some of my most happy times were spent with my grandfather, with whom my mother and I lived, when we used to go nutting in the woods and out in the clearing to blow stumps and burn the brush heaps. (brush sheaps I used to call them) I also always looked forward to the almost every other Saturday in the winter time when Mother and I would go to "Grandmas" as I always expressed it, where lived my two grandparents and my uncle. These were always times of corn-popping, nut cracking and taffy making...." - "Letters To My Son" by Stella Leech to William Horace Melton May 11, 1916 |
| Stella performs, gets married and suffers a tragic loss - click here. |
