AMELIA "IDA" LESLEY MADE THE MISTAKE OF GETTING INVOLVED WITH ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY (famous Oregon suffragette) AND HER SON HUBERT:
Amelia was living in the Duniway household in the 1880 census and probably had lived with them from at least 1876 when Amelia was 17 years old. According to "Rebel for Rights", Abigail Scott Duniway took in girls from the country and Amelia "Ida" Lesley was one of them. Amelia and Abigail's son, Hubert, had been involved with each other and Abigail had tried to break it up. When Amelia became pregnant, Abigail sent her and Hubert off to San Francisco. Charlie Duniway was born in San Francisco, California in April 1878, when Amelia "Ida" Lesley and Hubert Duniway were 19 years old and 3 years prior to Ida's marriage to Hubert Ray Duniway son of Abigail Scott (A.S.) Duniway and Benjamin Charles (B.C.) Duniway (referred to on Charlie Duniway's headstone). Charlie died at the age of 3 months only a week after his grandmother Abigail Scott Duniway, brought him back to Oregon "by ship" from San Francisco where he had been born in secret. Abigail reported in Duniway's New Northwest "Editorial Correspondence" of 1 August 1878 that he was a "precious little orphaned waif" and on his tombstone it says that he was adopted but it's highly unlikely that he was adopted. Abigail did not want it known that Charlie was her son Hubert Duniway's child by "Ida" whom he was not married to at the time as Ida was considered "simple" by Hubert's brother and Abigail believed that children born out of wedlock and women who had children out of wedlock were mentally deranged. Reference the book "Rebel for Rights, Abigail Scott Duniway" by Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Chapter 7, Pages 116 and 127. Hubert and Ida were married in 1881 after another trist (according to "Rebel for Rights). Amelia "Ida" Lesley Duniway "supposedly" died of TB in 1882 while her husband Hubert was already engaged to another woman before Ida's death. Ida was buried beside her son, Charlie.
Amelia was living in the Duniway household in the 1880 census and probably had lived with them from at least 1876 when Amelia was 17 years old. According to "Rebel for Rights", Abigail Scott Duniway took in girls from the country and Amelia "Ida" Lesley was one of them. Amelia and Abigail's son, Hubert, had been involved with each other and Abigail had tried to break it up. When Amelia became pregnant, Abigail sent her and Hubert off to San Francisco. Charlie Duniway was born in San Francisco, California in April 1878, when Amelia "Ida" Lesley and Hubert Duniway were 19 years old and 3 years prior to Ida's marriage to Hubert Ray Duniway son of Abigail Scott (A.S.) Duniway and Benjamin Charles (B.C.) Duniway (referred to on Charlie Duniway's headstone). Charlie died at the age of 3 months only a week after his grandmother Abigail Scott Duniway, brought him back to Oregon "by ship" from San Francisco where he had been born in secret. Abigail reported in Duniway's New Northwest "Editorial Correspondence" of 1 August 1878 that he was a "precious little orphaned waif" and on his tombstone it says that he was adopted but it's highly unlikely that he was adopted. Abigail did not want it known that Charlie was her son Hubert Duniway's child by "Ida" whom he was not married to at the time as Ida was considered "simple" by Hubert's brother and Abigail believed that children born out of wedlock and women who had children out of wedlock were mentally deranged. Reference the book "Rebel for Rights, Abigail Scott Duniway" by Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Chapter 7, Pages 116 and 127. Hubert and Ida were married in 1881 after another trist (according to "Rebel for Rights). Amelia "Ida" Lesley Duniway "supposedly" died of TB in 1882 while her husband Hubert was already engaged to another woman before Ida's death. Ida was buried beside her son, Charlie.
AMELIA "IDA" LESLEY MADE THE MISTAKE OF GETTING INVOLVED WITH ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY (famous Oregon suffragette) AND HER SON HUBERT:
Amelia was living in the Duniway household in the 1880 census and probably had lived with them from at least 1876 when Amelia was 17 years old. According to "Rebel for Rights", Abigail Scott Duniway took in girls from the country and Amelia "Ida" Lesley was one of them. Amelia and Abigail's son, Hubert, had been involved with each other and Abigail had tried to break it up. When Amelia became pregnant, Abigail sent her and Hubert off to San Francisco. Charlie Duniway was born in San Francisco, California in April 1878, when Amelia "Ida" Lesley and Hubert Duniway were 19 years old and 3 years prior to Ida's marriage to Hubert Ray Duniway son of Abigail Scott (A.S.) Duniway and Benjamin Charles (B.C.) Duniway (referred to on Charlie Duniway's headstone). Charlie died at the age of 3 months only a week after his grandmother Abigail Scott Duniway, brought him back to Oregon "by ship" from San Francisco where he had been born in secret. Abigail reported in Duniway's New Northwest "Editorial Correspondence" of 1 August 1878 that he was a "precious little orphaned waif" and on his tombstone it says that he was adopted but it's highly unlikely that he was adopted. Abigail did not want it known that Charlie was her son Hubert Duniway's child by "Ida" whom he was not married to at the time as Ida was considered "simple" by Hubert's brother and Abigail believed that children born out of wedlock and women who had children out of wedlock were mentally deranged. Reference the book "Rebel for Rights, Abigail Scott Duniway" by Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Chapter 7, Pages 116 and 127. Hubert and Ida were married in 1881 after another trist (according to "Rebel for Rights). Amelia "Ida" Lesley Duniway "supposedly" died of TB in 1882 while her husband Hubert was already engaged to another woman before Ida's death. Ida was buried beside her son, Charlie.
Amelia was living in the Duniway household in the 1880 census and probably had lived with them from at least 1876 when Amelia was 17 years old. According to "Rebel for Rights", Abigail Scott Duniway took in girls from the country and Amelia "Ida" Lesley was one of them. Amelia and Abigail's son, Hubert, had been involved with each other and Abigail had tried to break it up. When Amelia became pregnant, Abigail sent her and Hubert off to San Francisco. Charlie Duniway was born in San Francisco, California in April 1878, when Amelia "Ida" Lesley and Hubert Duniway were 19 years old and 3 years prior to Ida's marriage to Hubert Ray Duniway son of Abigail Scott (A.S.) Duniway and Benjamin Charles (B.C.) Duniway (referred to on Charlie Duniway's headstone). Charlie died at the age of 3 months only a week after his grandmother Abigail Scott Duniway, brought him back to Oregon "by ship" from San Francisco where he had been born in secret. Abigail reported in Duniway's New Northwest "Editorial Correspondence" of 1 August 1878 that he was a "precious little orphaned waif" and on his tombstone it says that he was adopted but it's highly unlikely that he was adopted. Abigail did not want it known that Charlie was her son Hubert Duniway's child by "Ida" whom he was not married to at the time as Ida was considered "simple" by Hubert's brother and Abigail believed that children born out of wedlock and women who had children out of wedlock were mentally deranged. Reference the book "Rebel for Rights, Abigail Scott Duniway" by Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Chapter 7, Pages 116 and 127. Hubert and Ida were married in 1881 after another trist (according to "Rebel for Rights). Amelia "Ida" Lesley Duniway "supposedly" died of TB in 1882 while her husband Hubert was already engaged to another woman before Ida's death. Ida was buried beside her son, Charlie.
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