Obit: Leslie, George (1828 - 1907)
Transcriber: Stan
Surnames:
LESLIE
COVET GALE TORMEY DOWNING ----Source: THORP
COURIER (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.) 12/19/1907 Leslie, George (26
JUL 1828 - 14 Dec 1907) Died, at his home
in this village (Thorp, Clark County, Wis.), on Saturday Dec. 14,
1907, of old age, George Leslie, aged 79 years, 4 months and 18
days. Mr. Leslie was
born in the town of Lockport, Niagara Co., N.Y., on July 26, 1828,
and was one of a family of six children, four boys and two girls.
At the age of seventeen he landed in Milwaukee, going later to
Green Co., Wis., where he was united in marriage and resided for
twenty years. In 1880 he came with his family to Thorp, where he
has since made his home. He was a man of generous impulses and
never forgot the hospitable ways of the pioneer. For many years the
stranger even though a beggar, never failed to find food and
shelter if he sought it at his hands, and he was at home by the
bedside of the sick and delighted in all kinds of neighborly
offices. He had filled the various relations of life, as son,
husband, father, brother, friend, and filled them well. Who can do
more? He leaves an
invalid wife and four daughters, Mrs. James Covert of St. Paul,
Mrs. Wm. Gale of Wallace, Idaho, Mrs. Frank Tormey, Mrs. O.
Downing, of this place, and one son, Frank Leslie of Park Falls,
all of whom were present at the funeral, except Mrs. Gale. The
interment took place on Tuesday, the services being conducted at
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