Name: Leslie Orear
Birth Date: 03 Jan 1854
Death Date: 26 Jun 1900
b. Kentucky, par. Daniel and Sabil Orear, wife, May Collins Henderson Orear #465



∼Ridge Park Cemetery Association of Marshall, Saline County, Missouri Part II Incorporated August 17, 1885

Name: Leslie Orear
Birth Date: 03 Jan 1854
Death Date: 26 Jun 1900
b. Kentucky, par. Daniel and Sabil Orear, wife, May H. Orear #465

Orear, Leslie, lawyer, was born near Mount Sterling, Kentucky, January 3, 1854, and died at Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 26, 1900. He was a son of Daniel and Sibyl (Mynheir) Orear. His college education was received in the University of Louisville, Kentucky. In 1875 he was admitted to the bar at Mount Sterling, and continued to practice there until 1880, when he removed to Marshall, Missouri. In 1876 he was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in Kentucky. In 1896 he allied himself with the Republican party. In 1900 he was unanimously nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh Missouri District, but died before the campaign was inaugurated. Prominent in Masonry, he served in 1895 as Grand Commander of the Missouri jurisdiction of Knights Templar, and at the time of his death he was Grand Junior Steward of the Grand Lodge of Missouri. He was one of the organizers of the Central Building and Loan Association of Marshall. April 30, 1884, he married May Collins Henderson, a native of Glasgow, Missouri, and a daughter of Dr. Osborne Henderson. They were the parents of five children: Nell, Leslie Henderson, Joseph Catlett, Vincent and Lula May. Mr. Orear was one of the most successful attorneys of central Missouri, and a man of unimpeachable integrity.

2009: He had at least one son Leslie Henderson Orear h/o (1) Mary Fray d. 1923 and (2) Edna Tragnitz from Ill.