Advertisement

William Amos “Will” Lesley

Advertisement

William Amos “Will” Lesley

Birth
Death
1956 (aged 81–82)
Burial
Hiwasse, Benton County, Arkansas, USA GPS-Latitude: 36.4303648, Longitude: -94.3734054
Memorial ID
View Source
Second child of Robert Houston Lesley and Elizabeth (Dawson) Lesley.

He married Iva Myrtle Semans on July 8, 1908 and they had 6 children:

Richard Lesley (1909-1909)
, William LuRay (Ray) Lesley (1911-1999)
, Adelbert Quincy Lesley (1913-2009)
, Marjorie Elizabeth (Lesley) McWherter (1916-1992)
, Mabel Genevieve (Lesley) Hook (1917-1996)
, and Frances Geraldine (Lesley) Werle (1918-1992).

Will grew up in Ottawa County, Kansas, the son of a farmer. He attended college at the Kansas State Agricultural School in Manhattan, Kansas and the University of Kansas in Lawrence, graduating in 1907 from the Kansas School of Pharmacy and earning a Degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist. He was a farmer, as well as a druggist at a local drugstore while in Kansas. Sometime between 1925 and 1930 he and Iva sold their farm in Kansas and moved their family to Hiwasse, Arkansas, where they raised broiler chickens and beef cattle.
Second child of Robert Houston Lesley and Elizabeth (Dawson) Lesley.

He married Iva Myrtle Semans on July 8, 1908 and they had 6 children:

Richard Lesley (1909-1909)
, William LuRay (Ray) Lesley (1911-1999)
, Adelbert Quincy Lesley (1913-2009)
, Marjorie Elizabeth (Lesley) McWherter (1916-1992)
, Mabel Genevieve (Lesley) Hook (1917-1996)
, and Frances Geraldine (Lesley) Werle (1918-1992).

Will grew up in Ottawa County, Kansas, the son of a farmer. He attended college at the Kansas State Agricultural School in Manhattan, Kansas and the University of Kansas in Lawrence, graduating in 1907 from the Kansas School of Pharmacy and earning a Degree of Pharmaceutical Chemist. He was a farmer, as well as a druggist at a local drugstore while in Kansas. Sometime between 1925 and 1930 he and Iva sold their farm in Kansas and moved their family to Hiwasse, Arkansas, where they raised broiler chickens and beef cattle.


Sponsored by Ancestry

Advertisement