Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1907 — OBITUARY. [ARTICLE]

OBITUARY.

Lydia R. Leek, wife of William 3. Leek, was born near Ottawa, jaSalle County, Illinois, October 57, 1849. Lydia way the youngest :hild ot five children of Mary Jane ,nd Levi Zeluff. Bhe had two >rothers and two Risters but neither mother nor sister lived to survive ler, having died many years beore. Lydia was the youDgeat child ,nd the last one of tne Zeluft amily, as her father died the same 'ear that Lydia was born. Her aother died eight years ago last Christmas Day. Lydia R. Zeluff was married to Villiam B. Leek, April 9, 1868. ’hey lived in Illinois all of her life xcept the last eleven years spent n Indiana. To this union was born three ons, Frank, Earl Claude, and one laughter, Della. All the children inrvive but the youngest son Claude, who preceded his mother ust 15 months to the day of her (eath. Claude having died Janury 15, 1906.

I Lydia had been sick just 11 days ftith pleura pneumonia and died ft unday, April 14, 1906 at 1:30 P. ftl. Her age was 57 years 5 months I 7 days. She leaves a husband, ftwo sons and her only daughter, ftesides other relatives and many ftriends to mourn her loss.