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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: James Aldophus Leip Note Born: 24 Jan 1864 at Hickman County, , , KY Married: 28 Aug 1894 Died: 25 Apr 1931 at Fulton, , , KY Father: Fredrick Leip Mother: Ellen Frances Taylor
WIFE
Name: Etta Usher Statham Note Born: 7 Nov 1875 at TN Or KY, , , Died: 6 Dec 1935 at Fulton, , , KY
CHILDREN
Name: William Marshall Leip Born: 28 May 1895 Died: Jun 1895 at Fulton County, , , KY
Name: Mary Gladys Leip Born: 20 Jul 1897 at Hickman Co. KY, , , Died: 29 Jun 1903 at Fulton Co. KY, , ,
Name: Thelma Lucille Leip Born: 31 Aug 1900 Died: Husband: N E Martin
Name: Willis D. Leip Born: 25 Aug 1906 at Fulton Co., , , KY Died: 16 Sep 1960 at E.St.Louis, , , IL Wife: Laura Lucille Erwin
Name: Bonnie Luzelle Leip Born: 21 Mar 1920 at Fulron, , , KY Died: 19 Dec 1994 at Nashville, , , TN Husband: J H Moore
NOTES
1). Leip.ged The 1870 Census lists James A. as 8 years of age and born in KY. In the 1880 Census he is listed as 16 years of age and a farmer living at home with his parents. James mother, Ellen Taylor Leip, died one day after his seventeenth birthday. Soon after his father remarried he left home because he and his step mother, Lucy Taylor Leip, could not get along. At night through the thin walls of their house he could hear her pleading with his father to make James leave. James father did not want him to leave home, but agreed when James insisted. James went to live with his father s sister, Aunt Barbara. He helped her with her farm after her husband George died. He didn t marry for several years. In later years after James father had died he allowed his step mother to come and live in his home. Thelma remembers her well. She says Lucy was a card. She was funny. James had three sisters. He bought their share of his father s farm and later bought additional acres to bring the total to 200 acres. Before he married Etta he built a three room home with a large porch for them to live in. He built the big house seen in Sister s pictures in 1906. Wilis D was born there. After moving to Riceville and renting the farm for several year James sold the farm toJohnny and Ruby Taylor. After Johnny died Ruby became a recluse and filled the house with trash. She kept chickens and pigs inside. After she died her son burned the house. James made some bad land investments and during the depression he lost everything. Thelma and Willis D wound up trying to support the family in a rented home in Fulton. He died of cancer of the mouth in 1931. He is buried at Harmony Methodist Church.
2).  Taylors and Leips.FTW  Leip.ged  Thelma, her daughter, tells many stories about Etta. She was a happy, funny woman who loved to entertain. Most Sundays after church several people would come home with them for dinner. She was a wonderful cook who especially liked to bake. Etta  s pies andcakes were renown in the region. The depression had brought hard times for Etta and her family. He husband had to sell the farm and town house to cover debts for bad investments. He had died in 1931 a slow agonizing death with cancer Etta was living withThelma and Bonnie Lou in a house on Norman St. near where it intersects West State Line.  Willis D. and Laura and their son WD had lived there also, but were living in Paducah when Etta died. Etta told Thelma the night she died she wished she could onlysee her little boy  WD  before she died. Unfortunately, he and his parents didn  t arrive from Paducah until after she had died. They returned to live there after her death to help Thelma and Bonnie. Etta was buried at Harmony Methodist Church on a cold rainy day. The hearse couldn  t make it up the hill to the church and the men in attendance had to help by pushing.  Even though he was only three and half years old WD has remembered  standing by the fireplace in the bedroom where his grandmother lay dead,the frightening quiet and darkness of the inside of the church and  the casket in the front of the church all his life. One story is that Etta  s middle name Usher was in honor of the doctor who delivered her. It is interesting to note that there is an Adam S. Usher on the 1875 Tax List for Hickman Co., KY where she was born.

						

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