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Note: From: jo-Ann Ruczynski [mailto:j_ruczynski@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 4:21 PM
To: Leggett, David - FNS
Subject: One major correction
David!!
Thank you for writing back!
There is one correction that all of my cousins and I would appreciate being made in this record that Earl Palmer Leggett left: Ray Leggett died of Pernicious Anemia in 1925, not 1935.
Widowed with eight children, my grandmother, was advised to give the three youngest girls up for adoption. The family story goes that she sat down at the kitchen table with the three oldest and put that option out to them. The eighteen-, sixteen- and fourteen-year old siblings said, "No." Uncle Cliff said, "Let's wait 'til we're going hungry."
A family history like that ... one that unites a family in love and support of each other ... is a special thing.
What a difference one digit can make! 1925!! :-)
So, David, is our closest common ancestor Allen Potter Leggett or Samuel Leggett?? And, if the answer is Allen, is there any truth to the story that we are related to Ethan Allen? I remember Dad telling me that his uncle used to say that that's where the "Allen" name came from. But, Dad also said that Uncle Harry was a great kidder!!
Thanks again.
Jo-Ann
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From: jo-Ann Ruczynski [mailto:j_ruczynski@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2012 8:20 PM
To: Leggett, David - FNS
Subject: Re: One major correction
Hello David,
Thank you for all that information on Uncle Harry's Ethan Allen Story. My Dad also said that as a kid in school, he'd been told to ask about his family heritage. He said that his dad (Ray) had told him to tell his teacher that he was "a blue-blooded Yankee"! When dad told me that, he pointed out a vein in his arm. It sure looked blue to me. What a bunch of kidders!
One reason you probably couldn't come up with Grandma Leggett's date of death is that she'd married Truman Redding in 1960. So, she was Gertrude Redding when she passed away on April 11, 1965. She is buried next to Ray, though, at Grand Lawn Cemetery in Detroit.
She'd had a stroke and fallen down stairs at Aunt Eva's house in March. At the hospital, I was holding her hand when she breathed her last. I remember my aunts hugging each other and Jean (the youngest) calling her sisters by what must've been pet, childhood names: Loie (Lois) and Dorrie (Doris). It was the first time I'd heard either of those names and I'm sure it was the enormity of losing their mother that took Jean back to that role of little girl, comforting and being comforted.
I haven't heard back from any of my cousins yet as to whether or not they would want any information put out there on the Web. (And, oops, I keep forgetting to ask my own kids!!)
Thanks again, David!
Jo-Ann
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1940 United States Federal Census
about Gertrude Leggett
Name:
Gertrude Leggett
Respondent:
Yes
Age:
56
Estimated Birth Year:
abt 1884
Gender:
Female
Race:
White
Birthplace:
Michigan
Marital Status:
Widowed
Relation to Head of House:
Head
Home in 1940:
Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Street:
Grand River
House Number:
12477
Inferred Residence in 1935:
Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Residence in 1935:
Same Place
Sheet Number:
4B
Number of Household in Order of Visitation:
84
Household Members:
Name
Age
Gertrude Leggett
56
Raymond Leggett
23
Glenna Leggett
20
Lois Leggett
18
Emma Jan Leggett
16
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: T627_1875; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 84-1205.
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