Leech, Clarence Judson

LEECH, WOOLEY, ORR, HARKEN

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 11/22/2003 at 12:53:27

Fulton’s History of Jefferson County
Vol. 2, page 463.

For more than 13 years Clarence Judson Leech has been engaged in general farming and stock-raising on a 120 acre tract, Sec. 12, Black Hawk Township. Mr. Leech was born in Richland, Keokuk Co., Feb 27 1868, his parents being John and Maria (Wooley) Leech. The father, who was of Scotch extraction, was born in Ohio, where he learned and in his early manhood followed the blacksmith’s trade, but later took up farming. With his wife and family he removed to Jefferson County in 1870, buying a farm in Black Hawk township, a mile east of District No. 1 school. After residing there for 27 years he went to Clark, Iowa, where he lived for two years. At the expiration of that time he returned to Black Hawk township, settling on the farm adjoining the one now owned by his son Clarence on the west. He lived there for four years, then went to Osceola, Iowa, thence to Wyoming, locating at Sheridan, where he passed away on the 13th of July 1910. The mother died in 1887, while the family were living in Black Hawk township…..

Mr. Clarence Judson Leech was married at Pleasant Plain, on the 21st of December 1892 to Miss Mary L. Orr, daughter of Robert and Sarah (Harken) Orr (see Howard Grove Cem. for ORR). The father was a butcher by trade and was for many years engaged in business in Pleasant Plain, where he passed away in 1897. The mother is still living and continues to make her home in Pleasant Plain. Unto Mr and Mrs Leech there has been born one daughter, Nellie M., who is 17 years of age and a student in the Richland high school…..Methodist…..McDowell Chapel…..

Transcribed from Jefferson County Records, Vol. 6, page 126, I have no relationship to the subject