Linnetta Leedham 1853-1932

LEEDHAM, BROWN, SHAW

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Date: 5/19/2006 at 23:07:26

The Mt. Pleasant News, Saturday, March 19, 1932, page 1
Linnetta Leedham Taken by Death
Miss Linetta Leedham, 79 years old, died at the home on South White street this afternoon at 1:15. She had been in failing health since in December and in the past few days had been suffering from pneumonia.
She is survived by a sister, Josephine, who had been residing with Miss Linetta on South White, and a sister, Mrs. Agnes Shaw, of Oakland, California.
Funeral arrangements will not be made until word is received from Mrs. Shaw.

The Mt. Pleasant News, Monday, March 21, 1932, page 1

Linnetta Leedham

The funeral services for the late Miss Linnetta Leedham was held at the Universalist church Monday afternoon at two o'clock. The pastor, Mrs. Laura Galer, spoke from the words in Luke 20:38. The pallbearers were Harold Davis, S.W. Shannon, Elwood Williams, R.S. Galer, John Dugdale and John Fitzpatrick, who bore the casket to the family lot at Forest Home.
Linnetta Leedham was born on Aug. 19, 1853, at the home on South White St., daughter of Charles J. and Rebecca Brown Leedham. Her parents were among the first settlers in Henry County, and her grandparents built the first brick house west of Burlington. There were 10 children, of whom four sons and four daughters grew to maturity in Mt. Pleasant, and two Miss Josephine of this city and Mrs. Agnes Shaw of Oakland, Calif. survive.
Miss Leedham was in business for some years, having a dressmaking shop on the southwest corner of the square.
Later she was head of the sewing room at the State Industrial School at Mitchelville until called home by family illness. For many years she has been housekeeper at the old home as her health permitted. She was a member of the Rebekah lodge, and always a loyal member of the Universalist church, a teacher in its school and to the last years active in its Aid society. After some months of invalidism, Miss Leedham died March 19, 1932. She will be missed by many old friends.