Elizabeth Leeson's Daughters

These portraits and photographs of Elizabeth Leeson's daughters were also in the faded and dusty box I took from a closet and started scanning to preserve them. The three children of Alfred and Elizabeth, Alice, Ethel and Albert (born October 3, 1897 at W. 458 Williams Street, Port Chester ~ a suburb of New York city) were baptized in St. Peters Lutheran Church of Manhattan. [Information furnished by Alice Leeson Dworak, who received it from Mildred Westerman, clerk.]



Alice was the eldest daughter. This portrait

could have been taken when she was about

eighteen, or perhaps when she married John

Dehaven. They had a daughter, Frances, and

a son. Later, Alice married a man named Bailey.

 

Frances married Peter McCurdy February 3, 1938.

Their two children, Paul and Pamela, died at a

young age in Gold Hill, Oregon.

 

Whether later widowed or divorced, Alice re-married.

At the time of her death in 1970 her name was Alice Dworak.

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This snapshot, taken September 7, 1937

in Medford, Oregon is labeled, "Dew

and Alice."

 


 

Ethel's portrait was also undoutably taken in Spokane, Washington before she married.

 



 Family portrait of Ethel, her husband,

Ray Garland, and their son, Ellsworth.

During the early 1930s they lived at

Spirit Lake, Idaho where Ray cut cordwood

and sold it to Spokane businesses. Later,

Ray and Ethel moved to Oregon, and then

to California. Ethel was always clever with

her hqnds, making all sorts of crafts, and

selling them.

 

As a young girl, she sold belts and purses she

made from rattlesnake-skins. She and Ray had

a small gift shop, and for some  years, earned

their living from handmade items they sold. 



Ethel died in Stockton, California in 1970.

Family ancestry information has been posted previously. Use the Archives, scrolling downward and reading each previous post.

When Arthur Frank Vanek and Mona Inez Leeson wed on August 31, 1949 they linked the following family trees, [Maternal ~ Muench and Leeson] [Paternal ~ Vanek and Gremaux].

Muench Ancestry ~ Leeson Ancestry ~ Vanek Ancestry ~ Gremaux Ancestry