John Wesley Pleasant (1874 - 1955)

Born 31 Oct 1874 in Chariton County, Missouri, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Ethel Anna Leathers — married 2 Aug 1903 in Douglas County, Missouri, United States [uncertain]

Died 10 Dec 1955 at age 81 in Iuka, Pratt County, Kansas, USA

Name

John Wesley Pleasant

Birth

31 OCT 1874 Chariton Co., MO(north central MO).

One of his grandfathers was said to be an Indian; John had high cheekbones and other Indian features.

Census

1900 Douglas Co., MO Census - John appears with his first-cousin J.W. LEATHERS (John's and J.W.'s mothers were sisters, maiden name Whitaker).

Aug 1903 - John married Ethel LEATHERS (daughter of J.W.'s sister Sarah Frances). John was 28 and Ethel was 20.

1904 - John & Ethel had their first child, Nellie.

Sometime between 1905-1910 - John & family moved to John's hometown in Chariton Co. Either this trip, or the later trip west to Oklahoma/Kansas in the 1910s, was in a covered wagon. Nellie remembered that when she was a little girl the family moved via covered wagon.

1910 census: MO, Chariton Co., Bee Branch (ED 26, sheet 1)

Between 1911-14 the family moved to Okla., then on to KS by 1920.

In 1914 they lived in Oklahoma, where Marie was born.

1920 census: KS, Pratt Co., Lincoln Twp., p. 69

1930 census: KS, Pratt Co., Iuka Twp. p. 222

They rented farmland in Kansas, and over the years they lived on 3 different farms in north & south Pratt County and south Stafford County. They always struggled financially, never owning any land. In their later years they lived in town in Iuka.

10 DEC 1955 - John died in Iuka, Pratt Co., KS

Occupation

Farmer

Sources

• This person was created through the import of PittsPenn_2010-09-21.ged on 22 September 2010 by MG Pitts.

• Research by Cliff Gobin, Houston, TX, (8/05/1998).