His Y-DNA haploytype has been determined to be "I1*.
Husband of Mary Alma Mears. Father of Frederick Perry DeCoursey.
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In 1886 after the divorce of his parents, Leslie E. DeCOURSEY was working at the age of 14 years driving a meat wagon for a butcher near Marion Park (between Minneapolis & St. Paul) according to his son, Fred Perry DeCOURSEY
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Leslie E. DeCOURSEY a resident of Steele co., Minn., son of Isaac H. DeCOURCY, married 1st on 28 Dec 1998 at Faribault, Rice Co., Minnesota to Mary A. MEARS, dau. of Fred and America (SPILMAN) MEARS. Witnesses were Gertrude COGGSWELL and Geo. DEFINE. Rice county Marriages Book H, p.499.
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His first wife, Mary Alma (MEARS) DECOURSEY was a descendant of William BREWSTER, Mayflower Pilgrim.
See: General Society of Mayflower Descendants #38059. MAYFLOWER ANCESTRAL INDEX (1981), v.1,p.173,417; Brenton, Chester F., DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM SPILMAN and MARY BROWN (Privately published, Spokane, Washington: 1980).
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His first wife, Mary, died of Tuberculosis on 20 Jan 1904 and is buried at Lakewood Cem. in Minneapolis. She left him with an infant son, Fred Perry DeCoursey, born 11 Aug 1900.
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Leslie married 2nd on27 September 1905 at Minneapolis, MN to Marietta Pearl "Etta" HILL, dau. of Jacob and Eliza (RYCKMAN) HILL of Homer, Minnesota. They had one son, Rev. Donald Leslie DeCoursey, b. 17 May 1910, who is interred at Sunland Memorial Park, Sun City, AZ.
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Leslie was a painter and paper hanger by profession.
He worked several years painting freight cars at the Soo Line Shoreham Shops on Central Avenue in N.E. Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis City Directory for 1926 lists:
DeCOURSEY, Leslie E., asst foreman Soo Shops, h. 801 - 20th Ave.-N.E. (His home was located just across the street from Edison High School.)
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Leslie Eugene DeCOURSEY, born 29 Aug 1873, is buried at Hillside Cemetery with his 2nd wife, Etta. On his death certificate #1425 his usual occupation is given as "Painter for Soo R.R. Car Shop". His parents names were incorrectly named as "John DeCOURSEY and Emma HILL". This incorrect information was provided by his son, Fred P. DeCOURSEY, who at that time did not know who his own paternal grand parents were. As a child, he had met his great uncle John DeCOURSEY of Winona and his great-grandmother, Mary Ann (TRACEY) BARNEY HILL and mistakenly named them as his father's parents on the death certificate Fred DeCOURSEY later told his son, William Leslie DeCoursey that he guessed at his father's parents names because he had never been told. Subsequent research has shown Leslie's parents to have been Isaac Henry DeCourcy and his first wife, Anna Emma Cornelius Barney. See: Death Certificate #1425
Husband of Mary Alma Mears. Father of Frederick Perry DeCoursey.
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In 1886 after the divorce of his parents, Leslie E. DeCOURSEY was working at the age of 14 years driving a meat wagon for a butcher near Marion Park (between Minneapolis & St. Paul) according to his son, Fred Perry DeCOURSEY
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Leslie E. DeCOURSEY a resident of Steele co., Minn., son of Isaac H. DeCOURCY, married 1st on 28 Dec 1998 at Faribault, Rice Co., Minnesota to Mary A. MEARS, dau. of Fred and America (SPILMAN) MEARS. Witnesses were Gertrude COGGSWELL and Geo. DEFINE. Rice county Marriages Book H, p.499.
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His first wife, Mary Alma (MEARS) DECOURSEY was a descendant of William BREWSTER, Mayflower Pilgrim.
See: General Society of Mayflower Descendants #38059. MAYFLOWER ANCESTRAL INDEX (1981), v.1,p.173,417; Brenton, Chester F., DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM SPILMAN and MARY BROWN (Privately published, Spokane, Washington: 1980).
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His first wife, Mary, died of Tuberculosis on 20 Jan 1904 and is buried at Lakewood Cem. in Minneapolis. She left him with an infant son, Fred Perry DeCoursey, born 11 Aug 1900.
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Leslie married 2nd on27 September 1905 at Minneapolis, MN to Marietta Pearl "Etta" HILL, dau. of Jacob and Eliza (RYCKMAN) HILL of Homer, Minnesota. They had one son, Rev. Donald Leslie DeCoursey, b. 17 May 1910, who is interred at Sunland Memorial Park, Sun City, AZ.
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Leslie was a painter and paper hanger by profession.
He worked several years painting freight cars at the Soo Line Shoreham Shops on Central Avenue in N.E. Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis City Directory for 1926 lists:
DeCOURSEY, Leslie E., asst foreman Soo Shops, h. 801 - 20th Ave.-N.E. (His home was located just across the street from Edison High School.)
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Leslie Eugene DeCOURSEY, born 29 Aug 1873, is buried at Hillside Cemetery with his 2nd wife, Etta. On his death certificate #1425 his usual occupation is given as "Painter for Soo R.R. Car Shop". His parents names were incorrectly named as "John DeCOURSEY and Emma HILL". This incorrect information was provided by his son, Fred P. DeCOURSEY, who at that time did not know who his own paternal grand parents were. As a child, he had met his great uncle John DeCOURSEY of Winona and his great-grandmother, Mary Ann (TRACEY) BARNEY HILL and mistakenly named them as his father's parents on the death certificate Fred DeCOURSEY later told his son, William Leslie DeCoursey that he guessed at his father's parents names because he had never been told. Subsequent research has shown Leslie's parents to have been Isaac Henry DeCourcy and his first wife, Anna Emma Cornelius Barney. See: Death Certificate #1425
His Y-DNA haploytype has been determined to be "I1*.
Husband of Mary Alma Mears. Father of Frederick Perry DeCoursey.
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In 1886 after the divorce of his parents, Leslie E. DeCOURSEY was working at the age of 14 years driving a meat wagon for a butcher near Marion Park (between Minneapolis & St. Paul) according to his son, Fred Perry DeCOURSEY
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Leslie E. DeCOURSEY a resident of Steele co., Minn., son of Isaac H. DeCOURCY, married 1st on 28 Dec 1998 at Faribault, Rice Co., Minnesota to Mary A. MEARS, dau. of Fred and America (SPILMAN) MEARS. Witnesses were Gertrude COGGSWELL and Geo. DEFINE. Rice county Marriages Book H, p.499.
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His first wife, Mary Alma (MEARS) DECOURSEY was a descendant of William BREWSTER, Mayflower Pilgrim.
See: General Society of Mayflower Descendants #38059. MAYFLOWER ANCESTRAL INDEX (1981), v.1,p.173,417; Brenton, Chester F., DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM SPILMAN and MARY BROWN (Privately published, Spokane, Washington: 1980).
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His first wife, Mary, died of Tuberculosis on 20 Jan 1904 and is buried at Lakewood Cem. in Minneapolis. She left him with an infant son, Fred Perry DeCoursey, born 11 Aug 1900.
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Leslie married 2nd on27 September 1905 at Minneapolis, MN to Marietta Pearl "Etta" HILL, dau. of Jacob and Eliza (RYCKMAN) HILL of Homer, Minnesota. They had one son, Rev. Donald Leslie DeCoursey, b. 17 May 1910, who is interred at Sunland Memorial Park, Sun City, AZ.
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Leslie was a painter and paper hanger by profession.
He worked several years painting freight cars at the Soo Line Shoreham Shops on Central Avenue in N.E. Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis City Directory for 1926 lists:
DeCOURSEY, Leslie E., asst foreman Soo Shops, h. 801 - 20th Ave.-N.E. (His home was located just across the street from Edison High School.)
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Leslie Eugene DeCOURSEY, born 29 Aug 1873, is buried at Hillside Cemetery with his 2nd wife, Etta. On his death certificate #1425 his usual occupation is given as "Painter for Soo R.R. Car Shop". His parents names were incorrectly named as "John DeCOURSEY and Emma HILL". This incorrect information was provided by his son, Fred P. DeCOURSEY, who at that time did not know who his own paternal grand parents were. As a child, he had met his great uncle John DeCOURSEY of Winona and his great-grandmother, Mary Ann (TRACEY) BARNEY HILL and mistakenly named them as his father's parents on the death certificate Fred DeCOURSEY later told his son, William Leslie DeCoursey that he guessed at his father's parents names because he had never been told. Subsequent research has shown Leslie's parents to have been Isaac Henry DeCourcy and his first wife, Anna Emma Cornelius Barney. See: Death Certificate #1425
Husband of Mary Alma Mears. Father of Frederick Perry DeCoursey.
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In 1886 after the divorce of his parents, Leslie E. DeCOURSEY was working at the age of 14 years driving a meat wagon for a butcher near Marion Park (between Minneapolis & St. Paul) according to his son, Fred Perry DeCOURSEY
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Leslie E. DeCOURSEY a resident of Steele co., Minn., son of Isaac H. DeCOURCY, married 1st on 28 Dec 1998 at Faribault, Rice Co., Minnesota to Mary A. MEARS, dau. of Fred and America (SPILMAN) MEARS. Witnesses were Gertrude COGGSWELL and Geo. DEFINE. Rice county Marriages Book H, p.499.
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His first wife, Mary Alma (MEARS) DECOURSEY was a descendant of William BREWSTER, Mayflower Pilgrim.
See: General Society of Mayflower Descendants #38059. MAYFLOWER ANCESTRAL INDEX (1981), v.1,p.173,417; Brenton, Chester F., DESCENDANTS of WILLIAM SPILMAN and MARY BROWN (Privately published, Spokane, Washington: 1980).
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His first wife, Mary, died of Tuberculosis on 20 Jan 1904 and is buried at Lakewood Cem. in Minneapolis. She left him with an infant son, Fred Perry DeCoursey, born 11 Aug 1900.
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Leslie married 2nd on27 September 1905 at Minneapolis, MN to Marietta Pearl "Etta" HILL, dau. of Jacob and Eliza (RYCKMAN) HILL of Homer, Minnesota. They had one son, Rev. Donald Leslie DeCoursey, b. 17 May 1910, who is interred at Sunland Memorial Park, Sun City, AZ.
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Leslie was a painter and paper hanger by profession.
He worked several years painting freight cars at the Soo Line Shoreham Shops on Central Avenue in N.E. Minneapolis.
The Minneapolis City Directory for 1926 lists:
DeCOURSEY, Leslie E., asst foreman Soo Shops, h. 801 - 20th Ave.-N.E. (His home was located just across the street from Edison High School.)
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Leslie Eugene DeCOURSEY, born 29 Aug 1873, is buried at Hillside Cemetery with his 2nd wife, Etta. On his death certificate #1425 his usual occupation is given as "Painter for Soo R.R. Car Shop". His parents names were incorrectly named as "John DeCOURSEY and Emma HILL". This incorrect information was provided by his son, Fred P. DeCOURSEY, who at that time did not know who his own paternal grand parents were. As a child, he had met his great uncle John DeCOURSEY of Winona and his great-grandmother, Mary Ann (TRACEY) BARNEY HILL and mistakenly named them as his father's parents on the death certificate Fred DeCOURSEY later told his son, William Leslie DeCoursey that he guessed at his father's parents names because he had never been told. Subsequent research has shown Leslie's parents to have been Isaac Henry DeCourcy and his first wife, Anna Emma Cornelius Barney. See: Death Certificate #1425
