Gertrude Lenora Magee Leaman
Nixon, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada
Canadian, 1880 - 1966
Canadian, 1880 - 1966
| Death Place: | Sackville |
| Death County: | Westmorland County |
| Death Province: | New Brunswick |
| Death Country: | Canada |
| Biography: | Gertrude Lenora Magee Leaman was the daughter of William Clark and Mary Jane Dawson Magee. She was the fifth child in a family of eleven. She married George Howard Leaman (07/03/1882-03/02/1961) on July 6, 1904. Together they raised six children (four girls, two boys). George was a millwright and they moved around a lot to different sawmills. She cooked at the lumber camps and mills while raising the family. She was also known as a local midwife and healer and neighbours would rely on her for healing or the dying. She was a member of her local Baptist church Ladies' Sunshine Group. She was always working on handwork and crocheted a bedspread for each granddaughter. She only had one eye after losing the other to cataract surgery and she had a replacement glass eye. She also hooked mats with her cousins in Maine. George was in hospital with a ruptured appendix in the 1950s. The hospitalization depleted their savings so they moved in with Judy Hickman Morison’s parents in Dorchester. At some point they also lived in Lewisville. |
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