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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Edington J Leach: Birth: 10 Jun 1860 in Wayne County, Iowa. Death: 5 Nov 1867 in Guthrie Center, Iowa

  2. Rawleigh (Rolly) Charles Leach: Birth: 5 Jan 1862 in Seymore, Iowa. Death: 14 Aug 1948 in Santa Anna, California

  3. John Robert Leach: Birth: 28 Dec 1865 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Death: 10 Mar 1953 in Arnold Cemetery, Nebraska

  4. Carrie C Leach: Birth: 21 Nov 1867 in Guthrie Center, Iowa. Death: 15 Feb 1951 in Nemo Cemetery


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Sylvia Eleanor Cambell: Birth: 11 Nov 1874 in Wayne County, Iowa. Death: 25 Aug 1923 in Arnold Cemetery, Nebraska

  2. Mary Pearl Cambell: Birth: 5 Mar 1876 in Wayne County, Iowa. Death: 24 Oct 1898 in Lead, South Dakota

  3. Leo L Cambell: Birth: Aug 1880 in Wayne County, Iowa. Death: 13 Jan 1938 in Arnold Cemetery, Nebraska


Notes
a. Note:   Miriam married Hyram Leach on May 28 1859 at Corydon, Iowa. Their first two children were born there. They then moved west to the Nebraska Territory and there they had their third child John Robert while living on their claim, which would later be the city of Lincoln.
  In 1866 he traded his claim of land for a team of horses, and he and his family moved back to Iowa. They purchased 40 acres of land near Guthrie Center. In 1867 their oldest son Eddie died on Nov. 5, and then their last child Carrie was born on Nov. 21 that same year. Hyram then deserted his family, and after being gone for a few years, his wife refused to take him back. They divorced.
  On Dec 14, 1873 in Wayne County, Iowa Miriam Married Thomas W. Cambell. They were both 30 at the time. They made their home in Promise city Iowa. In the next 7 years Miriam had 3 more children.
  In notes written by John(her son), he says that when he returned to Iowa after spending 2 years living with Hyram his father, Rolly and Charles were working on the railroad to support their family(their mother & siblings). "They had turned Mr. Campbell off, as he would not help support his family," this is an exact quote. We are not sure if that meant that Miriam had turned him out or if Thomas had been laid off from his employment. At this time Rolly was 18 and John was 15 years of age. John got a job on a farm for $15 a month.
  Miriam talked it over with the older boys and decided to go west. What courage that women had! To leave her family and all the familiar things and take the family including 3 small children ages 3, 7, and 9, and head west. The lure was 160 acres of free land. She traded her house and lot in Promise City for a team of horses and a wagon and headed west. The mud was so deep that after they reached Afton they decided to stop. They rented a farm and put in crops. Charley went to work for a carpenter, learning the trade so his wages were small. The crop was a disaster, as the 40 acres of corn drowned out. They had borrowed oat seed to be repaid after the harvest. The price had gone down so it took two bushels to pay for one bushel of oats left. They sold a horse to pay the store bill of $50. They traded the corn stalk field for a blind mule and traded the remaining horse for a good mule. With 12 bushels of oats for the mule team, they started for Nebraska. They got as far as Polk County in September. Miriam's Brother-in-law, Hugh Johnston and his two sons lived there, so they remained for the winter. The boys got jobs haying and corn picking.
  When spring came Charley, John, Miriam's brother David Chilcote and his son Irwin went on to Custer County, Nebraska leaving Miriam and the other children in Polk County. They located land about eleven miles north and east of Arnold, where David, Charley, and John each took homesteads. While the rest stayed to make a sod house for Miriam and the children. John returned to Polk County to get his mother and the children. They got back to Custer County about June 1, 1884. They broke some sod and put in a garden and a few potatoes. john stayed with his mother and helped her until his marriage in 1894.
  We have wondered why Miriam, Rolly Charles(Charley), John, and David did not take adjoining homesteads. The homestead Miriam lived on for many years and where the John Leach family lived was about three miles from the other homesteads. Not only was this land away from theirs, it was located on the edge of the table and probably not as productive.
  In the fall after moving to Nebraska, Carrie married Will Van Horn. 1n 1888 Will started working for the Burlington Railroad at Grand Island. When the Burlington was extended to South Dakota he went to Rochford in 1891 as chief telegraph operator. In 1895 he was stationed in Lead, South Dakota. In 1911 Will and Carrie moved to Nemo where Will was station agent and Carrie was postmistress.
  Charley(Rolly Charles) took a homestead adjoining that of John and their uncle David Chilcote. In 1886 the claim was commuted. The next year he went to Holyoke, Colorado where he worked as a carpenter. In 1889 he moved to Denver and continued to work as a carpenter. He married Brittie M Payne, May 30, 1889, at Denver. While living there 3 children were born. In the fall of 1893 the family returned to Custer County and rented a farm near Finchville, 8 miles south of Arnold. In 1903 he bought 720 acres southwest of Arnold, on the edge of Lincoln County. Here he buit a fine 2 story house. He sold the farm in 1918 and move to Arnold where he built another house. In 1923 all the children were married and gone from the home, he and Brittie moved to Santa Ana, California where they spent the remainder of their lives.
  Not much is known of Mary Pearl(Pearl). She had moved to Lead, South Dakota with her half sister Carrie in 1893. She married Allen W. Powell there on Jan. 1, 1896. Pearl passed away from typhoid fever at the age of 22. She left and infant son, Harold, who had been born earlier that same year. Harold joined the Navy during Wold War I, but there is no further information.
  Sylvia Married Charles Pearce on Oct. 22, 1891. They lived on a farm northeast of Arnold for many years. Sylvia passed away at 48 following surgery. Her daughter Gladys remained at home and cared for Charles until his death.
  Leo had been injured in a fall from a horse when he was about 12. His hip was injured and it caused him to be a bit crippled, with one shorter leg. He was able to get around, but it was A handicap. He was a small man, 5'1" tall, and weight 120 pounds. He lived with his mother as long as she lived. In 1905 he took a homestead under the Kincaid Act. He worked many job, for example he ran a livery barn, a cafe, was a rural mail carrier and in later years a Watkins salesman. Leo and Miriam moved to Arnold in the later years.
  Leo got 2 wives by advertising in the paper. He married Claude Sensaboy in 1925. She already had 2 daughters. She was ill and returned to her home of Tennesse shortly after their marriage. She died on June 29, 1927. His 2nd wife was Marion Ellis. She had a mental problem and after she tried to kill him he sent her back to Missouri, her home. Leo was very good at playing the fiddle. He died in Arnold at the age of 58.
  Miriam stayed active both mentally and physically until the time of her death at age 91. An article in the newspaper told of the many quilts that she made.
  The day of her death she had been to the park for a 4th Of July clebration, but became ill after returning home and passed away. Her obituary says she was a lifelong consistent Christian, and a faithful loyal member of the Methodist Church.



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