Mary WICKHAM ²

  General Notes:

1870 NE CENSUS, Richardson Co, Elmore P.O.: Solomon Leslie, 33, farmer, $2000 real estate, $600 personal estate, b. IL; Mary Leslie, 35, keeping house, b. OH; John W. Leslie, 3/12, b. NE in May.

1880 NE CENSUS, Richardson Co, Liberty Precinct: Solomon Leslie, 42, married, farmer, b. IL, parents b. PA; wife Mary, 45, keeping house, b. OH, father b. NY, mother b. OH; son Nathan, 10; son Lowell, 8; dau. Margaret, 6; Thomas Asaph, 23, laborer, b. Wales, parents b. Wales. All Leslie children were b. NE, father b. IL, mother b. OH.

1900 NE CENSUS, Richardson Co, Liberty Precinct, Verdon village: Mary Leslie, Feb 1835, 65, wd, married 25 yrs (crossed out), b. OH, father b. NY, mother b. OH; son J. Nathan, May 1870, 30, single, farmer; son Lowell D., Jan 1872, 28, single, farmer; dau. Maggie, Jan 1874, 26, single; aunt Jane Barcoms, Apr. 1823, 77, wd, married 50 yrs (crossed out), 3 children, 2 living, b. OH, parents b. NY. All Leslie children were b. NE, father b. IL, mother b. OH.

INFO FROM FRANK LESLIE: My grandmother, Mary Wickham, was teaching school in NE when she met my grandfather, Solomon Leslie. They were married in 1867. Solomon was also teaching school. I still have one of his teaching certificates. Solomon was to go to the army in 1862, and when he reported in at Quincy, IL, he was turned away as the unit was already full (lucky break for all his descendants). I have a copy of the document stating he was released from duty.

Mary married Solomon LESLIE, son of John LESLIE and Catherine WYGLE, on 13 Oct 1867 in Salem, Richardson Co, NE.¹ (Solomon LESLIE was born on 21 Feb 1838 in Liberty, Adams Co, IL ¹ and died on 8 Mar 1893 in Salem, Richardson Co, NE ¹.)