Cornelius Lesher and Polly Lease

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Husband Cornelius Lesher ¹

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           Born: 15 Nov 1842 - Jordan Twp, Northumberland Co, PA 1
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         Father: John Lesher (1810-1884) 1 2
         Mother: Polly Troutman (1814-1893) 1 2

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       Marriage: Dec 1863 3

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   Other Spouse: Carolina Troutman (      -      ) 3

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Wife Polly Lease ³

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           Born: 1 Jan 1841 3
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           Died: 20 Feb 1868 3
         Buried:  - Uniontown Cemetery, Uniontown, Northumberland Co, PA

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         Father: John Lease (      -      ) 3
         Mother: Elizabeth Troutman (      -      ) 3

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Children

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1 F Lizzie Lesher ³

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         Spouse: David Eister (      -      ) 3

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General Notes: Husband - Cornelius Lesher

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He was reared under the parental roof, working for his father until he attained his majority. After following the carpenter's trade for two years he commenced farming as a tenant in Jordan township, Northumberland County, and he was engaged in agricultural pursuits on his own account for nearly forty years. In Lower Mahanoy township he owned a farm of eighty acres which he farmed for three years, at the end of that time selling it to Gilbert Troutman, and for the next two years again farming as a tenant. He then bought a farm of 100 acres, the old homestead of Heinrich Troutman, who was the father of Jacob and grandfather of John Troutman, and there he lived and worked for twenty-eight years, finally disposing of the place to Samuel R. Reed.
Physically he was short and well set, capable of doing a good day's work, and by industry and good management attained a creditable position in his community. He has served his township as treasurer and overseer of the poor, was a Republican in political connection, and a leading member of the United Evangelical Church at Uniontown, to which his family also belonged. For a number of years he served as church trustee and he was a class leader for six years.

He had three children with his first wife; only one was still living in 1911.

1 —, Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. L. Floyd & Co., 1911), Pg 814.

2 Lesher Families in America, Pg 69.

3 —, Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. L. Floyd & Co., 1911), Pg 815.