Gideon Lease

  General Notes:

Quoted Text: Windsor Twp, Cowley County, E.D.#66. Shows Gideon 56 married for 7 years. Shows occupation as "Post Master". Does not show his wife living with him. Shows he owns a farm, free of mortgage. 2 servan ts living with him: one a farm laborer one a day laborer.

Quoted Text: Oley Twp; p. 67Quoted Text: Familien Register - Geburten. Belonging to Kim Ringler. Says: John & Catharine Lease. Sons and daughters born from. Gideon Lease was born Sept 24, 1843. Baptized by Revd. T. Miese Dec 25th, 1843. Wit nesses: Isaac Schrador, Mary Mellot. Lovina Lease was born Apr. 13th 1845. Bapticed (sic) by Revd. T. Miese 1845. Witnesses: Jacob Hoyer, Sarah Hartman. James Delles Lease - Dec 27th, 1846. Baptice d (sic) by Revd Isaac Miese July 4th, 1847. Witness William Seyler, Mary Breidigam. Lewi Lease was born May 31st, 1848. Baptized by Revd I. Miller 17th Aug 1848. Witness August Breidigam, Susan Bloch . Harmina Catharine Lease born Oct 21st, 1849. Baptized by Revd. A. Hermann. Witness Abraham Hartman and Sarah his wife. Jacob Lease was born Sept. Baptized.... Witness...

Hanna Aammaline Lease born Oct 31st, 1853. Baptized by Revd. A. Hermann. Feb 5th 1854. Witness Benjamin Housman and Hanna his wife Amanda Lease was born Sept 25th, 1856. Baptized by Revd A. Hinderlider EDec 26, 1856. Witness John Lease and Catherine his wife.

death: 14 MAR 1903
Leavenworth, Kansas?
Quoted Text: Letter from Belle Bartgis to Cinly Diehl, written June 23, 1902. Says she went "up to Floral the 9th of May to see Gideon Lease. A man living there wrote us that he was sick) and found him in a pitiab le condition. He had dropsy and heart trouble and consumption and was filthy and dirty. I persuaded him to take medicine and to put on clean clohtes and have his bed cleaned up. The man who took car e of him could not get him to let them clean him up nor get him to take medicine after the doctor left it, He made application to go to the soldier's home at Leavenworth but they were afraid he woul d not live to get there, but after I left he did not give them any trouble about taking his medicine and he started for the Soldier's Home two weeks ago today. I have not heard anything from him since ."

Quoted Text: Memorial Card for Gideon Lease, upon his death. Says, "Died March 14, 1903".


Letter from Gideon Lease to his cousin, Cinly Diehl. Written 12 March, 1882.

Dear Cousin, With pleasure I will inform you that I am well pleased with that paper. You may do so again. I hope you are all well at present.

I have nothing to brack (sic). Although I still keep employed at the Range, you must excuse me for remaining quiet so long. We had quiet (sic) a snow on the twenty first of February and on the 8 an 9 of March.

It is about gone now and the geese went north. Well I did not hear from Mary since you spoke in your last letter. Rest of folks well as far as I know. Although I was not there for six months. I own the two farms blackened with the lead pencil. That farm in Cowley has forty acres broke out, and I want you to come and farm it for me. I will give you three bushels out of four. It is nice and level. I would farm it myself, but I have not much of a team. I have a little mule eleven hands high and a little wagon, front wheels two feet high and three feet track. I went to town with it once and they made an awfull fuss. I bought the sixty acres for two hundred and fifty dollars, and the one hundred and sixty for four hundred dollars subject to a mortgage of two hundred and fifty. O I guess you don't care to know about my farms, but I want to get me a lot in Grenola also. Here you can see how a little stream and little fishes in the stream runs on my sixty acres at present, and them little dots are little timber. I did not know what to write when I commenced but I am full now...yours, Gideon Lease, Grenola, Elk Co, Kansas. Write some time again and send me some Springfield papers and the farming world is nice. I wish I was also at home and taking care of my parent and Children. How is your boy Henry growing.

(Picture of bird) This is for Henry from Gideon.

Pension File #467.705, paper dated 9 Sept, 1901 shows Gideon served as "Postmaster at Floral, Kansas for 12 years on Dec 17, 1900". ²

Gideon married Emma Palm Boyer, daughter of Philip Boyer and Catherine Palm, in Aug 1869 in Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA. (Emma Palm Boyer was born on 5 Oct 1847 in Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA, died on 13 Mar 1877 and was buried in Friedens Church Cemetery, Oley, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA.)

Gideon next married Mary E. Howard on 22 Dec 1892 in Grenola, Elk County, Kansas. (Mary E. Howard was born in 1859.)