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Adelaide Leigh
Kilpatrick
Gus Leigh of Jerseyville, Ill., came last week to attend the funeral of his little sister Adelaide. He will visit two or three weeks before returning to Illinois. [The Plymouth News, Saturday, May 13, 1899]
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Nettie Leigh
Word was received here yesterday morning from University Place, Neb., announcing the death of Mrs. E.C. Leigh, a former resident of Gage county, which occurred at that place about 9 a.m.,of cancer from which she had been suffering for years. Mr. and Mrs. Leigh resided on Cub creek eight miles west of Beatrice for twenty years before locating at University Place. Deceased was fifty-eight years of age, and leaves beside her husband the following children: Mrs. W.C. Summers and Mrs. George Potts, living west of Beatrice; Mrs. George Blakely of Omaha; Mrs. Warren Mattison of Gregory, S.D., Augusuts Leigh of Phoenix, Ariz., and Miss Lucretia Leigh of University Place. Mrs. Leigh was well and favorably known in western Gage county and in this city, and her host of friends will learn of her death with profound sorrow. Funeral services will be held this morning at 8 o'clock from the family home at University Place. The remains will be brought to Beatrice, arriving here on the noon Burlington. The body will be interred in Kilpatrick cemetery west of the city, where brief services will be held. [The Beatrice Daily Sun, Thursday, May 14, 1908]
The remains of Mrs. E.C. Leigh were brought here yesterday afternoon over the Burlington route from Lincoln.
A large number were at the station to meet the body and escort it to Kilpatrick cemetery west of the city, where the interment occurred. Brief services were conducted at the grave.
Before going to Lincoln Mrs. Leigh had resided in the Cub Creek vicinity for twenty years.
[The Beatrice Daily Sun, Saturday, May 16, 1908]
Nettie J. Snell was born in Jerseyville, Ill., Feb. 15, 1851. In 1871 she was married to E.C. Leigh.
In 1879 she came to Beatrice with her husband where she resided on the farm home until two years ago when she and her husband and youngest daughter moved to University Place where she lived until the time of her death, Wednesday, May 13.
In 1878 Mrs. Leigh was baptized in the Baptist faith. After moving to Nebraska she became a member of the Kilpatrick Congregational church of which she was a member until 1905. After moving to University Place she was received into the Methodist Episcopal church by letter.
The sickness of this much loved lady, which was short and severe, was borne with unusual patience and Christian fortitude. She desired to regain her health, yet was reconciled to God's will. She remembered all the relatives, friends and acquaintances and thanked them for the kindness shown her. In her last hours she spoke of seeing the dear little girl who preceded her just nine years.
There are left to mourn her death the husband and one son and five daughters.
[The Beatrice Daily Sun, Sunday, May 17, 1908]
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