Daughter of Henson and Mattie Vanscoy. Olive had siblings; Fanny, Delbert, Ira, Edna, Orpha, and Beulah. She had half-siblings; Omar, Okey Gerald, Lena Dorothy, Harlen, Emma Jean, Hazel, and Grace Vanscoy.
Olive married Talbert Leary, July 9, 1912, Randolph County, West Virginia.
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Received from Jan Sheridan:
AP - Grand Junction Sentinel, 16 Feb 1934
Mother Held The Medicine Clutched In Her Dead Hand
Elkins, W. Va., Feb. 17 -- In nearly zero weather Mrs. T.C. Leary, 38, trudged nine miles from her cheap mountain home to Elkins to get medicine for one of her five children.
Shortly after she started back, a swirling snow storm burst upon her and the temperature began falling below the zero mark.
Yesterday, a searching party, headed by her husband, a CWA worker, following a trail blazed by shreds of clothing on the brambles, found Mrs. Leary frozen to death, a half mile from her home.
The trail showed she had dropped from a ledge into a shallow gulley and stumbled into the branches of a fallen tree.
A bag containing the medicine was clutched in her hand.
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1930 Census, Leadsville, Randolph, West Virginia
Talbert C Leary, Head 44 W Virginia
Olive Leary, Wife 35 West Virginia
Russell Leary, Son 18 West Virginia
Emery Leary, Son 15 West Virginia
Howard Leary, Son 8 West Virginia
Ernest D Leary, Son 6 West Virginia
Essie M Leary, Dau 3 West Virginia
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“Motherhood – all love begins and ends there.”
Robert Browning
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Olive married Talbert Leary, July 9, 1912, Randolph County, West Virginia.
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Received from Jan Sheridan:
AP - Grand Junction Sentinel, 16 Feb 1934
Mother Held The Medicine Clutched In Her Dead Hand
Elkins, W. Va., Feb. 17 -- In nearly zero weather Mrs. T.C. Leary, 38, trudged nine miles from her cheap mountain home to Elkins to get medicine for one of her five children.
Shortly after she started back, a swirling snow storm burst upon her and the temperature began falling below the zero mark.
Yesterday, a searching party, headed by her husband, a CWA worker, following a trail blazed by shreds of clothing on the brambles, found Mrs. Leary frozen to death, a half mile from her home.
The trail showed she had dropped from a ledge into a shallow gulley and stumbled into the branches of a fallen tree.
A bag containing the medicine was clutched in her hand.
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1930 Census, Leadsville, Randolph, West Virginia
Talbert C Leary, Head 44 W Virginia
Olive Leary, Wife 35 West Virginia
Russell Leary, Son 18 West Virginia
Emery Leary, Son 15 West Virginia
Howard Leary, Son 8 West Virginia
Ernest D Leary, Son 6 West Virginia
Essie M Leary, Dau 3 West Virginia
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“Motherhood – all love begins and ends there.”
Robert Browning
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Daughter of Henson and Mattie Vanscoy. Olive had siblings; Fanny, Delbert, Ira, Edna, Orpha, and Beulah. She had half-siblings; Omar, Okey Gerald, Lena Dorothy, Harlen, Emma Jean, Hazel, and Grace Vanscoy.
Olive married Talbert Leary, July 9, 1912, Randolph County, West Virginia.
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Received from Jan Sheridan:
AP - Grand Junction Sentinel, 16 Feb 1934
Mother Held The Medicine Clutched In Her Dead Hand
Elkins, W. Va., Feb. 17 -- In nearly zero weather Mrs. T.C. Leary, 38, trudged nine miles from her cheap mountain home to Elkins to get medicine for one of her five children.
Shortly after she started back, a swirling snow storm burst upon her and the temperature began falling below the zero mark.
Yesterday, a searching party, headed by her husband, a CWA worker, following a trail blazed by shreds of clothing on the brambles, found Mrs. Leary frozen to death, a half mile from her home.
The trail showed she had dropped from a ledge into a shallow gulley and stumbled into the branches of a fallen tree.
A bag containing the medicine was clutched in her hand.
-----------------------------------------------------------
1930 Census, Leadsville, Randolph, West Virginia
Talbert C Leary, Head 44 W Virginia
Olive Leary, Wife 35 West Virginia
Russell Leary, Son 18 West Virginia
Emery Leary, Son 15 West Virginia
Howard Leary, Son 8 West Virginia
Ernest D Leary, Son 6 West Virginia
Essie M Leary, Dau 3 West Virginia
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“Motherhood – all love begins and ends there.”
Robert Browning
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Olive married Talbert Leary, July 9, 1912, Randolph County, West Virginia.
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Received from Jan Sheridan:
AP - Grand Junction Sentinel, 16 Feb 1934
Mother Held The Medicine Clutched In Her Dead Hand
Elkins, W. Va., Feb. 17 -- In nearly zero weather Mrs. T.C. Leary, 38, trudged nine miles from her cheap mountain home to Elkins to get medicine for one of her five children.
Shortly after she started back, a swirling snow storm burst upon her and the temperature began falling below the zero mark.
Yesterday, a searching party, headed by her husband, a CWA worker, following a trail blazed by shreds of clothing on the brambles, found Mrs. Leary frozen to death, a half mile from her home.
The trail showed she had dropped from a ledge into a shallow gulley and stumbled into the branches of a fallen tree.
A bag containing the medicine was clutched in her hand.
-----------------------------------------------------------
1930 Census, Leadsville, Randolph, West Virginia
Talbert C Leary, Head 44 W Virginia
Olive Leary, Wife 35 West Virginia
Russell Leary, Son 18 West Virginia
Emery Leary, Son 15 West Virginia
Howard Leary, Son 8 West Virginia
Ernest D Leary, Son 6 West Virginia
Essie M Leary, Dau 3 West Virginia
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“Motherhood – all love begins and ends there.”
Robert Browning
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