I recently received the following on Charles Anway. It appeared in the Saints Herald (date unknown). Charles's adopted daughter Lela/Leila is my great-aunt and I'm looking for ANY information on her. I have found her in the 1930 census with Charles and Catharine. Lisa

Charles Henry Anway, fifth son of Erastus and Mary A. Anway was born October 6, 1873 in a little log cabin located at Cambridge, Iowa and after an illness of a number of months passed away at the home of his son, George, in Independence, Missouri, Tuesday, February 21, 1933, age 59 years, and 15 days. At eleven years of age in company of his parents, he moved from Iowa to Kansas, passing through Lamoni while the first general conference of the L.D.S. Church to be held in the basement of the old brick church was in session. In a short time the family moved to Nebraska and when he was 15 years old they returned to Iowa. He was united in Marriage, August 12, 1896, with Miss Catharine Ada Higgins, at Nevada, Iowa. To this union were born 7 children. Mr. and Mrs. Anway started their home together in Coffins, Iowa, but soon moved to Rhodes, Iowa, and later to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where their three oldest children were born. Some years later the family moved to Akron, Iowa, where he held a position as rural mail carrier for eight years. From Akron they moved to Lamoni, where for a time he sold goods for the Rawleigh Company, and in 1914 accepted a position as caretaker of the new school building in which work he continued until the Christmas vacation of the present school year when he found it necessary to give up the work on account of the serious condition of his health. During those years of service to the public schools he was more than a caretaker, he was an adviser to hundreds of boys, an assistant to the faculty after substituting in the manual training department and some times in the lower grades. When a young man, Mr. Anway united with the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, being baptized by Elder O.B. Thomas. He remained true to this faith to the end. There are left to mourn his departure, his companion: five sons, George E., Paul E., and Joseph H., of Independence, Missouri, Harold W., of Charles City, Iowa, and Mark E. of Lamoni, and an adopted daughter, Leila Mae, also of the home. A son James Earl passed away in infancy, and a daughter, Geraldine Viola, died at the age of 7 in October 1927. There are also remaining one brother, George of Colorado; two sisters, Mrs. Carrie McLam, of Colorado, and Julia Prock, of Des Moines, Iowa, four grandchildren and many other relatives and friends. Funeral services were held from Lamoni Coliseum, February 24, 1933, in charge of Elder Thomas S. Williams, Elder W.E. Prall delivering the address. Music was furnished by the Graceland College A Cappella Chorus. Interment was in Rose Hill Cemetery, Lamoni, Iowa.