JAMES ALFRED ERNEST LESLIE
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ROSE ELLA WARD
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1875--1946
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1881--1952
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James A. E. Leslie was born June 30, 1875 in Rotherham, England, to
Alfred H. and Sarah Williams Leslie. His father, a musician, traveled about
the country. After his father's death, James, his mother and his youngest
brother came to the United States and lived at his grandparent's boarding
house in Sandy, Utah, until his mother remarried. James attended school
and worked at the Mingo Smelter in Sandy before taking scientific courses
at Franklin Academy in Franklin, Nebraska, and Salt Lake College.
On March 7, 1899, he married Rose Ella Ward, daughter of Brigham Claude
and Rose Ellen Hatch Ward. During the nine years they lived in Sandy, they
had four children:
Alfred |
b. Jan 12, 1900 |
d. Sept. 23, 1986 |
m. Hatetna Clark |
James |
b. June 21, 1902 |
d. Nov. 25 1961 |
m. Helen Clark |
Raymond |
b. May 8, 1905 |
d. Oct. 6, 1992 |
m. Dorothy Jenkins |
Rose |
b. Dec. 23, 1907 |
d. April 29, 1998 |
m. 1st William Nobbs; 2nd Edmund Reese |
In May of 1908, James preceded the rest of the family coming to Kennett
to work as Chief Chemist for Mammoth Copper Mining Company. The family
joined him in November of that year and in the next ten years, they had
three more children:
Roland |
b. July 8, 1910 |
d. Feb. 25, 1962 |
m. Dorothy Couey |
Wayne |
b. May 3, 1914 |
d. March 12, 1989 |
m. Marie Aberg |
Florence |
b. Sept. 11, 1919 |
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m. John Lonnberg |
In 1926 James went to work in Wabuska, Nevada, for three years and
had a difficult time finding another permanent job because of the depression. He finally started his own assay office at their home on Eureka Way doing
assays for local miners. They moved to a mining claim near Shasta during
WWII. Their last few years were back in Redding; their daughter Florence
cared for James in his final illness. James, a member of the Knights of
Pythias and IOOF Lodge, died March 30, 1946.
Though she worked hard at home and later as a paid housecleaner, Ella
found time to hike and play with her children and learned to swim, which
she loved, when she was in her forties. She was in her fifties when she
swam across the Sacramento River and back near Diestlehorst Bridge. Her
last six years, Ella lived in a house her son-in-law, John Lonnberg had
built next door to him and Florence. Ella died April 18, 1952.
Source: Shasta Historical Society Nov. 1998