Thank you Suzy for adding our family memorial page and then transferring them over to us to maintain, without our asking! Thank you also for taking the headstone photographs!

We are blessed to have so many people help to fill in our Leyes family. On Peter's parents 50th wedding anniversay (abt 1896), we have a group photo. From Canadian Cousin Lorraine Hinsberger. Thank you very much, Lorraine!

Please help to fill in their memorial pages with stories and photographs, family!

He married Philomena Friedle about 1895.

They had three children:
1.) Johan "John" Peter Leyes, tool gage inspector # 99224854, 1896 – 1963

2.) Hubert Leyes, abt 1896 – ?
(We have nothing on him. Cemetery? Need spouse and any children.)

3.) Eleanor B. Leyes # 93128610, 1902 – 1979

Birth -
10 Jan 1869 • Wellesley, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"M" middle intital gleaned from his wife's 1910 census!

Residence -
1871 • Waterloo North, Ontario, Canada
1871 Canada Census

Residence -
abt 1881 • Waterloo North, Ontario, Canada
1881 Canada Census

Arrival
1891

Immigration -
1891 • From Ontario to Illinois
Taken from his wife's 1910 and 1920 censuses.

Residence -
1895 • Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
Had three children here from 1895-1903. Then in 1908 he died and was buried in Mishawaka, St. Joseph, Indiana, USA

Residence -
1900 • 925 Wolfram, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
US Directory, a "newsdealer"

Residence -
1904 • 521 W Lawrence, South Bend; Mishawaka, St Joseph County, Indiana, USA
US Directory - A "blacksmith".

Residence -
1905 • 521 W Lawrence, South Bend; Mishawaka, St Joseph County, Indiana, USA
US Directory - "works at Dodge Manufacturing".

Residence -
1906 • 519 Benton, South Bend; Mishawaka, St Joseph County, Indiana, USA
US Directory - "works at Dodge Manufacturing".

COD: "gangrene of appendicitis".

Jul 2022 Update:
From my scholar brother, Rick Leyes.
"Peter and his family resided at 519 Benton Ave. in Mishawaka. Peter died January 18, 1908 at the early age of 39 in the Epworth Hospital in South Bend as a result of a ruptured appendix which spread gangrene. He was buried January 21st in St. Joseph's Cemetery in Mishawaka."