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] > >