Leonard Marcus Stright and Cora Ione Palm

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Husband Leonard Marcus Stright ¹

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            AKA: Leonard L. (W.?) Stright 2
           Born: 20 Nov 1861 - Deer Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 1
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           Died: 23 Apr 1938 3
         Buried:  - Greenville Cemetery, Mercer Co, PA

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         Father: John Warnock Stright (1824-1891) 4 5 6
         Mother: Elvira H. Hall (1825-1909) 2 7

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       Marriage: 22 Dec 1892 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 8

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Wife Cora Ione Palm ⁸

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           Born: 5 Mar 1871 - Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 8
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           Died: 31 Mar 1940 3
         Buried:  - Greenville Cemetery, Mercer Co, PA

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         Father: Milton A. Palm (1849-1881) 9 10
         Mother: Margaret T. Morford (      -1882) 8

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Children

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1 F Nola Marguerite Stright ³

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           Born: 23 Apr 1894 - Sheakleyville, Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Arthur Raymond Stewart (1891-1963) 11
           Marr: 20 Jun 1923 - Greenville, Mercer Co, PA 11

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2 M Hayden Leroy Stright ³

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           Born: 18 Apr 1898 - Sheakleyville, Sandy Creek Twp, Mercer Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: Ruth Harris Brown (1901-      ) 12
           Marr: 25 Jun 1928 12

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General Notes: Husband - Leonard Marcus Stright

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He spent his lifetime lumbering and farming. One of his first experiences in lumbering was in the stave mill of W. J. Fell and Co. in West Virginia. In 1885 he was in Nebraska and from 1887 to 1889 in West Virginia. In 1893 they moved to the McCoy house in Sheakley­ville, Pennsylvania, when he worked in a sawmill in Deer Creek Township which he and W. S. Stright owned. In 1894 he moved to my mother's house in the north end of Sheakleyville. He was in West Virginia in 1896 and returned in May, 1897. He spent a short time in Alabama that summer. In 1898 he was very ill with typhoid fever. When he had recovered the family moved to Parker's Landing, Butler County, for a year, then moved to the place re­fered to as "the woods," located near Geneva in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. They lived there five years. Together with Bert and Harry Minnis, operating as the Stright and Minnis Lumber Company, they cut the timber from the property. In November, 1904, they moved to Sheakleyville where they lived in the Wiley house and in April, 1906, he purchased the Morrison farm west of Greenville. They lived there until October, 1911, when the farm was sold. That winter they lived in Greenville; in May, 1912, he bought the Reed farm north of Green­ville, east of the St. Paul's Orphan Home. He lived there until November, 1936, when he and his wife moved to Greenville to live with their daughter, Nola, and her husband Arthur R. Stewart and daughter.
He was a faithful member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was elected to the Grand Lodge from Sheakleyville. Both he and his wife were members of the First Baptist Church of Greenville.

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General Notes: Wife - Cora Ione Palm

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When she was twelve years old her mother died of tuberculosis. She then lived with her grandmother, Mary McLaughlin Morford. In 1891 her grandmother moved to Mead­ville where she died the following year. At that time Cora moved to Greenville where she lived with the William Washburn family. Although she did not teach school she passed the teachers examination when she was sixteen.
Later in life she had crippling arthritis and by 1924 required the use of a wheel chair. Seven years later she was in the wheel chair day and night.

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Notes: Marriage

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They attended the World's Fair in Chicago with Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Morford the summer following their marriage as a delayed honeymoon.

1 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 30.

2 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1018.

3 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 40.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1106.

5 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 1019.

6 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 26.

7 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 27.

8 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 37.

9 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1101.

10 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 1645.

11 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 50.

12 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 53.