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Said to have lived at Crosby, Texas around 1988.
"Mary Betty Leebrick Weds Calvin Gower -- Coming as a very pleasant surprise was the announcement made Monday of this week by Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Leebrick of the marriage of their daughter, Miss Mary Betty, to Calvin Gower, son of L. C. Gower, all of t his city. The wedding took place Tuesday, October 31 at Crowell, Texas in the presence of Miss Ruth Sellers and Clifford Whitney.
The bride, who is a very beautiful young lady, wore a frock of wine velvet with a marching turban for her wedding. She has lived in Frederick most of her life and is a most charming and accomplished young lady. She is a graduate of the Frederick high school after which she attended the Oklahoma A. and M. college in Stillwater and Hill's Business College in Oklahoma City. For the past year she has been in Frederick assisting her father in the Corner Drug store.
The bridegroom is a graduate of the Lawton high school. Until recently he has been employed at the Frederick Press. He is now in Glendale, California, where his bride will soon join him to establish their home."--15 Dec 1939, The Frederick (OK) Press
"Mary Betty Gower was granted a divorce in district court Monday by Judge John B. Wilson, from Calvin Robert Goweer, on grounds of extreme cruelty. They were married at Crowell, Texas, Oct. 31, 1939 and a son, Harry Lee Gower, 5, was born to the union. Defendant was ordered to pay $42 a month for the son's support and to have custody of the child 45 days during months of June, July and August."--27 July 1945, The Frederick (OK) Press
"McDowell Bicentennial Set Nov 11 -- DANVILLE, Ky.--As the 200th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, local pioneer physician and surgeon, approaches and will be observed on Nov. 11, interest in the McDowell House and Apothecary Shop on South Second Street here, the former home and office of the world-famous doctor, has been increasing. Hostesses at the house state that the month of October saw the largest number of visitors there for any comparable period.
The McDowell bicentennial will be marked Thursday, Nov. 11, with a get-together at McDowell House for a number of the physician's direct descendants, with invitations going out to them and to a limited number of interested friends to be present there from 5 to 8 p.m. There will be no formal program, although tours of the house are planned for those accepting the invitations, hostesses state.
The room where Mr. McDowell is believed to have performed the world-famous ovariotomy on Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford on Dec. 25, 1809, is a second-floor, small, rear bedroom which every visitor desires most to see. Throughout the house are b beautiful pieces of furniture and accessories of the period during which Dr. McDowell and his family occupied the place, from the late 1700s to 1830.....
On May 29 this year, McDowell House received a coin silver spoon from a great-great-granddaughter of Dr. McDowell, Mrs. Thomas W. Towery, of Houston, Texas, whose mother was Miss Laura Alice Chandler who married Max Leebrick. Mrs. Leebrick was the last living great-grandchild of Dr. McDowell; she died on July 12, 1970. Mrs. Leebrick's mother (who married a Mr. Chandler) and whose father was William Wallace McDowell, only son of Dr. McDowell who lived to adulthood. The coin silver spoon, initialed, is marked on the back with the name A. Frazer. Alexander Frazer was a Lexington, Ky., silversmith, 1803-1810...."--31 Oct 1971, Lexington (KY) Herald
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Census records are consistant with 1834 birth year.
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Residence 139.
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Occupation: Butcher. Children live in California, per Hazel McMahan. Described as being of Cloverdale, Calif, in her sister Mary's 1906 death notice.
1910 Census lists both John and Matilda in Kansas. John supposedly died in 1894 in California
"Week-end guests entertained by Mrs. Mary Leebrick and family were Miss Kate Leebrick of Peru, Ind., a well-known evangelist, Mrs. Ogle of Cloverdale, Cal., and Robert Leebrick of Long Beach, all cousins."--14 Oct 1911, Covina (CA) Argus
"MRS. M. E. OGLE PASSES TO LAST REST WEDNESDAY -- Deceased Was Among Loved Pioneer Women of County -- Mrs. M. E. Ogle, a pioneer of this county, who would have reached her 93rd birthday on March 15, passed away Wednesday, February 16, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Louis Charlton, of this city. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon from the Eversole chapel.
Mrs. Ogle has made her home with a son in Cloverdale for the past twenty-three years. She is held in loving memory by her six children, seventeen grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren and many friends throughout this county. All but one of the six children followed the remains to the grave today. She was the mother of E. G. Ogle of Berkeley; J. O. Ogle of Cloverdale; W. G. Ogle, Las Vegas, New Mexico; B. R. Ogle, Yorkville; Mrs. J. C. Thomson, Ukiah; Mrs. Minnie Charlton, Ukiah. Miss Kate Leebrick of Long Beach is a sister, and two brothers survive--Chas. Leebreck (sic) of Long beach and Frank Leebreck (sic) of Kansas.
The deceased was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania nearly a century ago. When she was an infant the family moved to Dublin, Indiana, where Mrs. Ogle grew to womanhood and became the wife of J. O. Ogle. Mr. Ogle passed away thirty-one years ago. After the first two sons were born, the family crossed the plains in an ox team taking six months to the trip. They came to Windsor, Sonoma county and not long after took possession of a ranch in Ornbaun, Anderson valley. For fifteen years Mrs. Ogle endured the hardships of pioneer ranching in that district. In 1890 the family came to Ukiah and since 1903 Mrs. Ogle has made a home for her son, J. O. Ogle of Cloverdale. She enjoyed perfect health all her life until her final illness which began on Christmas day. She was sin possession of all her faculties to the last, kept in touch through reading with world events. All her life she was actively interested in the south Methodist Church and for thirty-six years was a member of the W.C.T.U. and an active worker in the interests of temperance.
For a number of years the South Methodist Church in Cloveredale has set aside the Sunday following March 15th as Grandma Ogle's Sunday. The whole day was turned over to the family which gathered at the home in Cloverdale. Many Cloverdale friends in the church and the community are attending the funeral in Ukiah today.
Mrs. Ogle leaves the memory of a fine, strong, Christian life."--18 Feb 1927, Ukiah (CAL) Dispatch Democrat