Leander GUESSFORD

  General Notes:

Photo: When in the album of Leander "Lee" Guessford and Mary Martha Belle (Allum) Guessford, this family picture was photographed by Shirley Allum Hudlicky in 1965. Seated left to right are Lee, Raymond, Mary, and baby Charles. Standing, left to right are Leroy, Goldia, Merlyn (behind Raymond, who is seated), John and Keith. The photo was taken at Newton, Jasper County, Iowa. Baby Charles was born in December, 1907, so we should be safe estimating the photo to have been taken in 1908.
From the collection of Shirley Allum Hudlicky


1863 BIRTH of Leander Guessford ("Lee" and "Lee A.")

1870 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Palo Alto Township, P. O. Newton ("Leander Guesford" age 7, with parents)

1880 CENSUS, Iowa, Jasper County, Palo Alto Township ("Leander Guestford," age 16, "Hired Hand" in the household of Frederick Bish)

1886 MARRIAGE of Leander "Lee" Guessford and Mary Martha Belle Allum on September 9 in Kellogg, Jasper County, Iowa at the bride's parents' home by Rev. H. P. Dyer


See "Mary Martha Belle Allum" for additional information

Leander married Mary Martha Belle ALLUM, daughter of John Supler ALLUM and Elisabeth LOAR, on September 9, 1886 in Jasper County, Iowa. (Mary Martha Belle ALLUM was born on September 11, 1868 in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa, died on July 31, 1959 in Newton, Jasper County, Iowa and was buried on August 4, 1959 in Newton Union Cemetery, Newton, Newton Township, Jasper County, Iowa.)