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Leona Josephene Bisbee[1]

Female 1876 - 1955  (79 years)

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  • Name Leona Josephene Bisbee  [2]
    Birth 27 May 1876  , Champaign, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Gender Female
    Alt. Birth 27 May 1876 
    Burial 1955  Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 9 Jul 1955  Ford, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I9886  Bisbee
    Last Modified 17 Sep 2009

    Father Benjamin Franklin Bisbee,   b. 22 Jun 1842, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jan 1923, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Mother Rebecca Jane Grissom,   b. 17 Aug 1843, Cicero, Hamilton, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Feb 1919, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    Marriage 1 Jan 1867  Mason City, Mason, Illinois, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    • The B. F. Bisbee family came to Meade County in 1887 from Champaign County, Ill. in a covered wagon with their six children and driving two white mules. They first settled on some land southwest of Plains where they lived in a dugout for a short time. They then moved southwest of Plains, where they filed on a quarter of land and proved their claims up. This land is still owned by members of the Bisbee family.

      When B. F. Bisbee built the first wood frame hs for his family, he hauled the lumber from Dodge City, taking four days with a lumber wagon. His children hunted buffalo chips to burn in the stove to heat their hs their first winters when they were cold and hungry. --Taken from "Plains Centennial" printed 1985.
    Family ID F4140  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Emerson Verne Melia,   b. 29 Oct 1875, Freeport, Barry, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Nov 1965, Ford, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years)
    Marriage 1 Jan 1902  Meade, Meade, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Children 
     1. Bernard Isaac Melia,   b. 20 Mar 1904, Hutchinson, Reno, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    +2. Leroy Emmerson Melia,   b. 5 Feb 1907, Ford, Ford, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jul 1974, Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
     3. E.M. Melia
    Family ID F4378  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 17 Sep 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 27 May 1876 - , Champaign, Illinois, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 1 Jan 1902 - Meade, Meade, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 1955 - Bucklin Cemetery, Bucklin, Ford, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 9 Jul 1955 - Ford, Ford, Kansas, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S2589] Crandall Melia, Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, Melia, Crandall: Grandson of Birdie Grace Bisbee, (1837 N. San Antonia Ave, Upland, California. Tel. 909-985-4350. Email candcmelia2@yahoo.com).

    2. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 102.

    3. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 237.

    4. [S1261] Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763-1900, Online, B. Frank Bisbee & Rebecca J. Grissom, 01/01/1867, vol 3 , p 6, Mason County.

    5. [S1084] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, comp., International Genealogical Index (R), (Version 5.0 (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2005), : FamilySearch (TM) Internet Genealogy Service, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150).

    6. [S2309] Viola Drake Bisbee, compiler, Geneology of The Bisbee Family (I) - Viola Drake Bisbee, (June 2000, Bisbee Family Connection, Decatur, MI), p. 238.