Leah Margaret (Wright) Appleby (1885 - 1948)

Born May 1885 in Bond County, Illinois

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Descendants

Died 28 Oct 1948 at age 63 in Bemidji, Beltrami, Minnesota, United States

Biography

Leah was born in 1885.

She is the daughter of Charles Wright and Melinda Adcock.

Census

Year: 1900; Census Place: Grand Forks Ward 5, Grand Forks, North Dakota; Roll: 1228; Page: 16B; Enumeration District: 0070; FHL microfilm: 1241228. Text: Name: Mary Wright Age: 22 Birth Date: Oct 1867 Birthplace: Illinois Home in 1900: Grand Forks Ward 5, Grand Forks, North Dakota Race: White Gender: Female Relation to Head of House: Daughter Marital Status: Widowed Father's Name: Charles D Wright Father's Birthplace: Illinois Mother's name: Margaret Wright Mother's Birthplace: Illinois Mother: number of living children: 0 Mother: How many children: 0 Occupation: View on Image Neighbors: View others on page Household Members: Name Age Charles D Wright 46 Margaret Wright 40 Mary Wright 22 Leah Wright 15

Sources

• United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9VN-GWP : accessed 28 March 2016), Margaret Wright in household of Charles D Wright, Grand Forks city Ward 5, Grand Forks, North Dakota, United States; citing sheet 16B, family 302, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,228.

• 1920 US FEDERAL CENSUS, MINNESOTA, ROUSEAU, ROOSEVELT, DISTRICT 242, lines 24-29 [image 3/6] January 5, 1920 JOSEPH L. APPLEBY, head, renting, male white, age 40, married, can read and write, born Iowa, parents born US, teamster, lumber company; LEAH M. APPLEBY, wife, white female, age 34, married, can read and write, self and parents born Illinois, EVELYN I APPLEBY, daughter, wf, age 15, single, attends school, can read and write, born Minnesota, father born Iowa, mother born Illinois; CORA M APPLEBY, daughter, wf, age 13, single, attends school, can read and write, born Minnesota, father born Iowa, mother born Illinois; EDNA V APPLEBY, daughter, wf, age 8, single, attends school, born Minnesota, father born Iowa, mother born Illinois; LEONA F. APPLEBY, daughter, wf, age 5, single, born Minnesota, father born Iowa, mother born Illinois;

• 1940 US FEDERAL CENSUS Border Crossings: From Canada to U.S., 1895-1956. Port of Portal North Dakota, June 1910 LEAH APPLEBY, age 25, female, wife, Canadian, lived in Stasburg Canada, came from husband Lorenzo Appleby, Strasburg Canada, going to Grand Forks, North Dakota with children, EVELYN, age 6, CORA age 4, & Josephine age 1 yr, 6 months. [Circumstantial evidence says these records are for "our" Leah. Her sister Mary is counted in Rouseau in 1920, married to William Appleby born 1876 in Iowa. One of Mary's children is born in Canada about 1911 and other family members came in through Portlal ND too]

• 1906 CANADA, CENSUS OF MANITOBA, SASKATCHEWAN AND ALBERTA, SASKATCHEWAN: Sub-District Description: Townships 19 in ranges 17, 18, 19, 20 part of township 20 in range 17 south of Indian Reserve, and Townships 20 in ranges 19 and 20, all west of the 2nd, Sub-District: 28B, family immigrated to Canada 1905 Section 34, township 21, Range 23, Meridian 2, # of horses 3, LORENZO APPLEBY, head, male, married, age 26, Born Iowa, LEAH APPLEBY, wife, age 20, born Illinois, EVELYN APPLEBY, daughter, age 2, born Minnesota,

• DEATH: MARGARET L APPLEBY, age 63, Minnesota, Deaths and Burials, 1835-1990, birth: 1885, death: 28 Oct 1948, Bemidji,​ Beltrami,​ Minnesota, parents: CHARLES D WRIGHT, MALINDA ADCOCK, spouse: JOSEPH APPLEBY, certificate number: 000654, certificate year: 1948, state file name: 000654, registration batch: NF349DO, typed or handwriten: H, indexing project (batch) number: I10384-0, system origin: Minnesota-EASy source film number: 2139216