Rice Boone Leas 1
- Born: 1806-1809, Kentucky, USA
- Died: 24 Nov 1876, Indiana, USA at age 70
- Buried: Parr Cemetery, Alton, Crawford County, Indiana, USA
General Notes:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maluhia/pafg06.htm Crawford Co, IN 1850 census shows Rice Lease living with his mother and that he is a 41 year old boatsman.
Odds and Ends (http://genealogytrails.com/ind/crawford/odds-n-ends.html)
On January 22, 1915, W. B. Deuschar's store building was torn down and moved away to a new location on High Street. This building was built by Rice B. Lease and Peter Claycomb for Nathaniel Hollcroft and E. P. T. Hollcroft in 1860. On that very same spot Marcus Gaither built the first shack in Alton about 1830.
The election to determine whether Indiana should have free schools was an interesting one. The old poll book for Alton and Boone townships shows that these votes were cast: Jacob Miller, James Riley, John Southards, David G. Kline, James Riddle, Amos Butt, John Waddle, William Seaton, William Dean, Elisha Peckinpaugh, Will-iam Good, James Johnson, J. J. Main, Machrum Main, Sam Heath, Robert Levi, Jacob Miller, William Lake, Levi Riddle, Ezra Carberry, John Parr, J. W. Guthrie, Ben Cole, Peter Carberry, William Wilbur, Sam Johnson, John Sheckel, Silas Sheckel, John Brown, William R. Hollcroft, Thomas Chanley, Shadrock Clark, Cornelius, Abel Heath, James W. Gaither, Sr., Harrison Deen, Abraham Osborn, Isaac Myers, Asa Kemp, John H. Borer, Moses Lake, Robert H. Fullenwider, George Heath, Green Kellums, Benjamin N. Hollcroft, James E. Esline, William Giffer, Charles S. .Myers, Clayborn A. Pierson, J. R. Ridge, J. H. Meylin, William H. Fullenwider, Thomas Gaither, James A. McGann, Daniel Wilbur, William H. Lowe, T. H. Cum-mins, Stephen Deen, Jr., D. W. Newman, G. M. Robert, Jacob Goldman, Henry Fullenwider, H. B. Meylin, R. B. Lease, E. P. T. Hollcraft, A. K. Rice, D. T. Wilbur, A. H. Jones, Elisha Springer, John Sheckels, Jr. D. W. Newman and James A. McCann, Clerks.
Noted events in his life were:
• United States Census: Resided, 1820, Charlestown, Clark County, Indiana, USA.
• Resided: U.S. Census, 1850, Boone Township, Crawford County, Indiana.
• Residence: U.S. Census, 1870, Alton, Boone Township, Crawford County, Indiana, USA.
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