Leland, Louisa (1848-1920)

LELAND

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 9/22/2019 at 16:18:35

Louisa Leland
Apr 1848 - Mar 15, 1920

(From the 1891 Biographical History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa. p.594)
LOUISA STODARD LELAND, of Garner Township, section 27, has been a resident of Pottawattamie County since 1878. She was born in Joliet, Will County, Illinois, the daughter of George and Eva (ATZLE) WITTY, the former a native of Saxony, Germany, on the Rhine. Our subject grew to womanhood in Joliet, where she received her education. She was engaged for some time in selling boots and shoes in Chicago and Joliet. She has a farm of 117 acres of well improved land, situated three miles east of Council Bluffs, which is devoted largely to small fruits and a vineyard and on which is a fine residence, which cost $4,000. She was married in Joliet, Illinois, when twenty years of age, to MAJOR STODARD, a native of Joliet. He was a soldier, having served in the late war. He died in Joliet in 1880, leaving one child, named Magdeline. Mrs. STODARD was again married in 1884 to Mr. LELAND.
[Louisa Leland is buried in Walnut Hill Cemetery, Council Bluffs, Iowa under the name of Louisa Stoddard, even though she is listed in the 1920 census as Louisa Leland]