A.J & P.C Lease was Andrew Jackson Lease and Phoebe Cadwallader Norah Lee was their daughter. Marie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Pyles" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 2:16 PM Subject: Re: [WVMINERA] Leases-Ft Ashby Cemetery > Marie, Did you figure out who A. J. and P. C. Lease were? Arthur L. "Pete" > was the son of Adam and Gertrude. Baby daughter of C.D. could have been the > daughter of Carroll or Colin, sons of Pete. Norah Lee, daughter of A.J. & > P.C. Lease is a puzzle for me. Was Lease, George W. 1911-1974 a brother of > Pete and George? "Our Darling" > 1963 Rebecca S., Daughter of Arthur & Sandra Lease (Arthur is the son of > Pete). Also unknown to me are: > Father: Lease, Charles J. 1906-19__ > > Mother: Lease, Ruth E. 1916-1972 > > To the left of them was: > > Hazel T. Lease Steigerwald > > 1903-1949 > > > ----------------------------------------------------- > Bill Pyles, Titusville, FL --New e-mail address: [email protected] > Searching Pyles(1), Allen(2), Starkey(2), Johnson(7), Friend(3), Brown(8), > Daniels(2), Kisner(4), McBride(7), McKee(7), Monnett(2), Brown(8), > Gower/Gauer(3), Titchnell(5), Peters (7) and Markers(6). > (1) Hampshire, Mineral and Preston Counties, WV. > (2) Hampshire and Mineral Counties, WV and Allegany County, MD. > (3) Garrett County, MD. > (4) Hampshire, Garrett and Preston Counties. > (5) Preston County. > (6) Frederick County, VA; Hampshire and Mineral Counties. > (7) Hampshire County > (8) Allegany County, MD; Bedford County, PA > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 3:55 AM > Subject: [WVMINERA] Leases-Ft Ashby Cemetery > > > > In answer to the 7/17question posted to Mineral County by > > [email protected] (marie robey): > > > > My husband and I went to the Fort Ashby Cemetery in Hampshire County, > West > > Virginia in July 1999 looking for Lease burials. We wrote down all the > > Leases we could find. They are: > > > > Norah Lee, daughter of A.J. & P.C. Lease > > died May 29, 1906 age 24 years, 4 mos, 22 days > > (in front of the above was Anna Lease - no other information) > > > > To the right of the "tall section" was: > > > > Lease, Gertrude S. 1891-1949 * and > > Lease, Adam M. 1880-1957 * > > They were next to: > > Lease, Arthur L. 1917-1984 and > > Lease, Dorotha M. 1920-1962 and > > Lease, Baby 4-3-1948 > > > > Baby daughter of Mr. & Mrs. C.D. Lease 1960 (note: > > this baby was near the foot of * above) > > > > Lease, George W. 1911-1974 and > > Lease, Myrtle I. 1915-1997 > > > > Somewhere behind the "middle section" was: > > Lease "Our Darling" > > 1963 Rebecca S., Daughter of Arthur & Sandra Lease > > > > Front of tall hill: > > > > Father: Lease, Charles J. 1906-19__ > > Mother: Lease, Ruth E. 1916-1972 > > To the left of them was: > > Hazel T. Lease Steigerwald > > 1903-1949 > > > > That's all the Lease burials we could find. I stopped in a near-by drug > > store, and the lady there told me the caretaker's name and suggested that > I > > might call him, which I did. I can't remember the group he belongs to, > like > > perhaps the Masons (they took over the care of the cemetery in the 1950's, > I > > believe). He said there were no written records of who was buried there, > and > > when they took over the care of the cemetery, it was in very bad shape. > So > > basically, what you see on the tombstones is all the information there is > > (unless, of course someone has recorded information on their relatives > > privately through the years, or if someone has researched and documented > > Lease death records for Hampshire County). > > > > However, there must be quite a few Leases buried in unmarked graves > because > > there is a book by Hazel Elisabeth Thornton on the Leise/Lease families > and > > many of them were "buried in Fort Ashby Cemetery". Hazel has a web site > that > > you can access at Familytreemaker.com > > > > -Kathy Lease > > [email protected] > > > > >