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Leander "Lee" Alkire

Male Abt 1854 - 1871  (~ 17 years)


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  • Name Leander "Lee" Alkire  [1, 2
    Nickname Lee 
    Birth Abt 1854  Sangamon County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 5 Jun 1871  Sangamon County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Notes 
    • Eddie Maynard found the following biography of Harmonas in the book HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS "Centennial Report,: John Carroll Power, Edwin A. Wilson and Co, Springfield, Illionis, 1876, pages 78 and 79.

      "Leander died June 5, 1871, in his 18th year."
    Person ID I38340  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 17 Nov 2011 

    Father Harmonas Alkire,   b. Abt 1804, Bourbon County, Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Mother Martha Matilda McLemore,   b. 10 Jul 1810, Burke County, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 31 Dec 1829  Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Eddie Maynard found the following biography of Harmonas in the book HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS "Centennial Report,: John Carroll Power, Edwin A. Wilson and Co, Springfield, Illionis, 1876, pages 78 and 79.

      Alkire, Harmonas was born in 1804 in Bourbon county, KY. His parents moved when he was quite young, to Pickaway county, O. in 1826 he visited Sangamon County on business for other parties. Returning to Ohio, he went to Lafayeet, Ind. The next year he came to Sangamon county again, on business and was married in Springfield, Dec, 31, 1829, to Martha McLemore. She was born July 10, 1810, in Burke county, N. C. Her parents moved, in 1811, to Knoxville, Tenn., and moved from there to Sangamon County, Ill, arriving Dec. 23, 1828 at Springfield. Soon after marriage M. Alkire returned to Lafayette with hsi wife. They had two children born there, and then moved to Sangamon county, arriving, August 1832, in what is now Fancy Creek township, where they had eight living children....Harmonas Alkire and his wife are living ont he farm where they settled in 1832. It is three miles west of Sherman. He confirms the statement of Washington Crowder that the sudden change took place December 20, 1836, because he entered a piece of land that day, and the papers bear the above date.
    Family ID F11710  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S98] 1860 United States Federal Census [Ancestry.com database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004., (Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls. This database is an index to individuals enumerated in the 1860 United States Federal Census, the Eighth Census of the United States. Census takers recorded many details including each person's name, age as of the census day, sex, color; birthplace, occupation of males over age fifteen, and more. No relationships were shown between members of a household. Additionally, the names of those listed on the population schedule are linked to actual images of the 1860 Federal Census.), Illinois, Sangamon, Subdivision 17 Enumerated 31 Sept 1860 Page 30 2249-2143 (Reliability: 3).

    2. [S1127] Genforum: Cantrall Family Genealogy Forum ; http://genforum.genealogy.com/cantrall/messages/17.html, (http://genforum.genealogy.com/cantrall/messages/17.html).