Paul Elsworth Leas Sr. ²

  General Notes:

A native of York county he was son of the late Nathaniel and Rebecca Staub Leas. His wife the former Mazie Spangler predeceased him.

He was a retired farmer and custom butcher and had been employed by Reading township road supervisors.

He was survived by children: Mrs Aubrey (Ellen) Hinkle, East Berlin; Mrs. Charles Marks, Carlisle; Mrs. Kenneth Boyce, York; Mrs. Ralph Eisenhart, East Berlin; Mrs. Kirt O. Miller, Arthur and Fred of East Berlin ;Mrs. William Wilt Jr, East Berlin; Paul E. Leas Jr, Glen Rock; Mrs. Harold Borror, Lockport, NY; Mrs. Dale Shoemaker, Dover; Harold Leas, East Berlin; 44 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren

  Noted events in his life were:

• Residence: US Census, 1900, Washington Township, Southern District, York, Pennsylvania.

• Residence: (at time of death), 1968, East Berlin, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Paul married Mazie Spangler, daughter of Emanuel Spangler and Ellen Margaret Deardorff, on 29 Jul 1916 in Reading Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA.¹ (Mazie Spangler was born on 28 Jul 1898 in Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA, died on 6 Mar 1946 in Pennsylvania, USA and was buried in Mummerts Meetinghouse Cemetery, Abbottstown, Adams County, Pennsylvania, USA.)