Jasper Newton “Newt” Lesley

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Jasper Newton “Newt” Lesley

Birth
Oregon City, Clackamas County, Oregon, USA
Death
28 Dec 1927 (aged 71)
Monument, Grant County, Oregon, USA
Burial
Monument, Grant County, Oregon, USA Add to Map
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Born in Oregon City per his Oregon Death Certificate) or born on the Pudding River near Wilsonville, Clackamas County, Oregon (per family lore), the son of Martin Clinton Lesley and Clarissa (Perry) Minkler Lesley; husband of Anna M. (Jackson) Lesley; father of 12 children - 11 deceased, and Lela (Lesley) Sloan living; brother of Ida Amelia (Lesley) Duniway (daughter-in-law of Abigail Scott Duniway - famous Oregon suffragette - see her memorial); occupation-part-time farmer & miner.

EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD (Newspaper) Archives, November 6, 1886:
"Bob Marshall, a veteran miner, recently had a leg broken by a bank caving, at the new placer mines in Grant county, Oregon. The Chinese doctor at Susanville was sent for. He said it was a very bad break and would take a long while to knit. Consequently, he would have to have $400 before setting it. He was remonstrated with and told that there was not over $100 in the camp. Then he wanted the $100 and a note for the other $300 signed by every man in the camp. About that time Newt. Leslie (Jasper Newton Lesley) got very hostile, and after telling the Chinaman what he thought of anyone who would thus exhort money from the unfortunate, gave him five minutes to leave the camp. He left. One of the boys set Marshall's leg, and when a white doctor arrived he pronounced it all right.
Born in Oregon City per his Oregon Death Certificate) or born on the Pudding River near Wilsonville, Clackamas County, Oregon (per family lore), the son of Martin Clinton Lesley and Clarissa (Perry) Minkler Lesley; husband of Anna M. (Jackson) Lesley; father of 12 children - 11 deceased, and Lela (Lesley) Sloan living; brother of Ida Amelia (Lesley) Duniway (daughter-in-law of Abigail Scott Duniway - famous Oregon suffragette - see her memorial); occupation-part-time farmer & miner.

EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD (Newspaper) Archives, November 6, 1886:
"Bob Marshall, a veteran miner, recently had a leg broken by a bank caving, at the new placer mines in Grant county, Oregon. The Chinese doctor at Susanville was sent for. He said it was a very bad break and would take a long while to knit. Consequently, he would have to have $400 before setting it. He was remonstrated with and told that there was not over $100 in the camp. Then he wanted the $100 and a note for the other $300 signed by every man in the camp. About that time Newt. Leslie (Jasper Newton Lesley) got very hostile, and after telling the Chinaman what he thought of anyone who would thus exhort money from the unfortunate, gave him five minutes to leave the camp. He left. One of the boys set Marshall's leg, and when a white doctor arrived he pronounced it all right.

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"OUR LOVED ONES FROM US HAVE GONE
A VOICE WE LOVE IS STILLED
A PLACE IS EMPTY IN OUR HEARTS WHICH NEVER CAN BE FILLED"

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With Anna M. (Jackson) Lesley

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