F: BIO: Leathers, James Madison - Franklin Co

"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA.  HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR.  CHICAGO:  F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS.  1884.
F. A. BATTEY.  F. W. TEPPLE

BROWN TOWNSHIP AND MOORESVILLE  MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA

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JAMES MADISON LEATHERS (deceased), native of Franklin County, Ky., was born
May 15, 1814, and died July 3, 1880.  In 1828, he accompanied his brother
Thomas J. into Indiana, and spent the rest of his life in Morgan County.
His school advantages were very limited, though he learned something of
reading, writing and arithmetic by attendance at the subscription schools
when not engaged upon the farm.  He married Martha Jane McDonald September
15, 1835, and she bore him twelve children--William W. (deceased), Charles
S., Nancy A., Mary, Theodore (deceased), John (deceased), Margaret
(deceased), Samuel (deceased), Sarah M., Harrison, Douglass and Mintie E.
>From the age of fourteen years until the day of his death, subject was a
consistent member of the Christian Church, and was for many years a Master
Mason.  His first wife died March 4, 1871, and November 5, of the same year,
he was married in Morgan County, Ind., to Phoebe T. Jones, daughter of the
Rev. H. T. Burge.  By this marriage he had born to him three
children--Florence Mabel, Bessie B. (deceased), and Samuel M.  Mr. L. left
his family a nice property, consisting, among other things, of a fine farm
of 183 acres, which his widow manages with skill and success.  He was a
great religious worker, educated his children, and voted the Democratic
ticket with persistent regularity.            
           
Submitted by: C. Richard Matthews
<crmatthews@kih.net> 
Date: 1 Sep 1997