John Joseph was born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland in 1898, to John Lees and Jane Lowrie.
He was 8 years old when he immigrated with his mother, Jane, and sister, Catherine Lees, from Scotland. They went to Butte, Montana, in 1907, on the S. S. Sicilian and docked in Quebec, Montreal, Canada. His father, also named John, came earlier in June of 1905 to establish a job and home for his family as his younger sister, Catherine Lees Ward was coming in September of 1905 with her own three children to marry Arthur Jackson. Arthur came in April of 1905.
His parents, John and Jane, had already lost two young children in Scotland. Matthew was born in 1901, and the same year they lost a daughter named Mary; she was seven. While living in Butte, their daughter, Catherine Lees, met James J. McLaughlin. Their wedding and arrangements were posted in the local newspaper as being an Irish wedding. Her cousin, Catherine Martin Ward, my grandmother, was in her wedding. Although the Lees family was from Scotland, they were of Irish descent. The family story goes that the family at one point came originally from Sligo, Ireland. Their grandfather, John O'Neill, left Ireland, and went to Scotland probably after the Great Potato Famine, married, had a son named Matthew in 1856, and then changed his surname to Lees. This means their grandfather John O'Neill married their grandmother, Catherine Martin in St. Mungo Parishand there they had several children until his wife's death on January 1, 1874 after the birth of their son, Peter Lees. John O'Neill Lees married Helen Speirs Dalzell and they lived in Slamannan, Scotland, where it appears there were other family members living.
John Joseph Lees, got into some trouble at age 18, after he left his Butte home where his father had remarried after his wife Jane, died. John Lees Sr. married widow Mary Martin Dooris, who had 8 children. John was caught in the state of Washington as a teenager, on forgery and was sent to the Washington State Reformatory for boys, located in Monroe, WA. He was released about 1920 to his father. The paperwork found from that institution is an interesting story. He claims his life became more difficult when his father remarried with her many children. Again I lose track of him but it appears he had some difficulties managing his life. I found him living with Uncle Scotty or Tom Ward in Los Angeles, on the 1940 census. John worked in the family mattress company there.
He died in 1942 while riding as a passenger with his cousin, Mrs. Evelyn Rae Ward-Landes, where there was a collision at the intersections of Trinity and Jefferson streets, in Los Angeles. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery located in Culver City, near Thomas Patrick Ward and his wife, Evelyn. There are no known wives or children.
He was 8 years old when he immigrated with his mother, Jane, and sister, Catherine Lees, from Scotland. They went to Butte, Montana, in 1907, on the S. S. Sicilian and docked in Quebec, Montreal, Canada. His father, also named John, came earlier in June of 1905 to establish a job and home for his family as his younger sister, Catherine Lees Ward was coming in September of 1905 with her own three children to marry Arthur Jackson. Arthur came in April of 1905.
His parents, John and Jane, had already lost two young children in Scotland. Matthew was born in 1901, and the same year they lost a daughter named Mary; she was seven. While living in Butte, their daughter, Catherine Lees, met James J. McLaughlin. Their wedding and arrangements were posted in the local newspaper as being an Irish wedding. Her cousin, Catherine Martin Ward, my grandmother, was in her wedding. Although the Lees family was from Scotland, they were of Irish descent. The family story goes that the family at one point came originally from Sligo, Ireland. Their grandfather, John O'Neill, left Ireland, and went to Scotland probably after the Great Potato Famine, married, had a son named Matthew in 1856, and then changed his surname to Lees. This means their grandfather John O'Neill married their grandmother, Catherine Martin in St. Mungo Parishand there they had several children until his wife's death on January 1, 1874 after the birth of their son, Peter Lees. John O'Neill Lees married Helen Speirs Dalzell and they lived in Slamannan, Scotland, where it appears there were other family members living.
John Joseph Lees, got into some trouble at age 18, after he left his Butte home where his father had remarried after his wife Jane, died. John Lees Sr. married widow Mary Martin Dooris, who had 8 children. John was caught in the state of Washington as a teenager, on forgery and was sent to the Washington State Reformatory for boys, located in Monroe, WA. He was released about 1920 to his father. The paperwork found from that institution is an interesting story. He claims his life became more difficult when his father remarried with her many children. Again I lose track of him but it appears he had some difficulties managing his life. I found him living with Uncle Scotty or Tom Ward in Los Angeles, on the 1940 census. John worked in the family mattress company there.
He died in 1942 while riding as a passenger with his cousin, Mrs. Evelyn Rae Ward-Landes, where there was a collision at the intersections of Trinity and Jefferson streets, in Los Angeles. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery located in Culver City, near Thomas Patrick Ward and his wife, Evelyn. There are no known wives or children.
John Joseph was born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland in 1898, to John Lees and Jane Lowrie.
He was 8 years old when he immigrated with his mother, Jane, and sister, Catherine Lees, from Scotland. They went to Butte, Montana, in 1907, on the S. S. Sicilian and docked in Quebec, Montreal, Canada. His father, also named John, came earlier in June of 1905 to establish a job and home for his family as his younger sister, Catherine Lees Ward was coming in September of 1905 with her own three children to marry Arthur Jackson. Arthur came in April of 1905.
His parents, John and Jane, had already lost two young children in Scotland. Matthew was born in 1901, and the same year they lost a daughter named Mary; she was seven. While living in Butte, their daughter, Catherine Lees, met James J. McLaughlin. Their wedding and arrangements were posted in the local newspaper as being an Irish wedding. Her cousin, Catherine Martin Ward, my grandmother, was in her wedding. Although the Lees family was from Scotland, they were of Irish descent. The family story goes that the family at one point came originally from Sligo, Ireland. Their grandfather, John O'Neill, left Ireland, and went to Scotland probably after the Great Potato Famine, married, had a son named Matthew in 1856, and then changed his surname to Lees. This means their grandfather John O'Neill married their grandmother, Catherine Martin in St. Mungo Parishand there they had several children until his wife's death on January 1, 1874 after the birth of their son, Peter Lees. John O'Neill Lees married Helen Speirs Dalzell and they lived in Slamannan, Scotland, where it appears there were other family members living.
John Joseph Lees, got into some trouble at age 18, after he left his Butte home where his father had remarried after his wife Jane, died. John Lees Sr. married widow Mary Martin Dooris, who had 8 children. John was caught in the state of Washington as a teenager, on forgery and was sent to the Washington State Reformatory for boys, located in Monroe, WA. He was released about 1920 to his father. The paperwork found from that institution is an interesting story. He claims his life became more difficult when his father remarried with her many children. Again I lose track of him but it appears he had some difficulties managing his life. I found him living with Uncle Scotty or Tom Ward in Los Angeles, on the 1940 census. John worked in the family mattress company there.
He died in 1942 while riding as a passenger with his cousin, Mrs. Evelyn Rae Ward-Landes, where there was a collision at the intersections of Trinity and Jefferson streets, in Los Angeles. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery located in Culver City, near Thomas Patrick Ward and his wife, Evelyn. There are no known wives or children.
He was 8 years old when he immigrated with his mother, Jane, and sister, Catherine Lees, from Scotland. They went to Butte, Montana, in 1907, on the S. S. Sicilian and docked in Quebec, Montreal, Canada. His father, also named John, came earlier in June of 1905 to establish a job and home for his family as his younger sister, Catherine Lees Ward was coming in September of 1905 with her own three children to marry Arthur Jackson. Arthur came in April of 1905.
His parents, John and Jane, had already lost two young children in Scotland. Matthew was born in 1901, and the same year they lost a daughter named Mary; she was seven. While living in Butte, their daughter, Catherine Lees, met James J. McLaughlin. Their wedding and arrangements were posted in the local newspaper as being an Irish wedding. Her cousin, Catherine Martin Ward, my grandmother, was in her wedding. Although the Lees family was from Scotland, they were of Irish descent. The family story goes that the family at one point came originally from Sligo, Ireland. Their grandfather, John O'Neill, left Ireland, and went to Scotland probably after the Great Potato Famine, married, had a son named Matthew in 1856, and then changed his surname to Lees. This means their grandfather John O'Neill married their grandmother, Catherine Martin in St. Mungo Parishand there they had several children until his wife's death on January 1, 1874 after the birth of their son, Peter Lees. John O'Neill Lees married Helen Speirs Dalzell and they lived in Slamannan, Scotland, where it appears there were other family members living.
John Joseph Lees, got into some trouble at age 18, after he left his Butte home where his father had remarried after his wife Jane, died. John Lees Sr. married widow Mary Martin Dooris, who had 8 children. John was caught in the state of Washington as a teenager, on forgery and was sent to the Washington State Reformatory for boys, located in Monroe, WA. He was released about 1920 to his father. The paperwork found from that institution is an interesting story. He claims his life became more difficult when his father remarried with her many children. Again I lose track of him but it appears he had some difficulties managing his life. I found him living with Uncle Scotty or Tom Ward in Los Angeles, on the 1940 census. John worked in the family mattress company there.
He died in 1942 while riding as a passenger with his cousin, Mrs. Evelyn Rae Ward-Landes, where there was a collision at the intersections of Trinity and Jefferson streets, in Los Angeles. He is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery located in Culver City, near Thomas Patrick Ward and his wife, Evelyn. There are no known wives or children.
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