Robert Edgar Walsh
(1888-1966)
Annie C. Ivey
(1891-1975)
Alice Lee Walsh
(1915-2008)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Jefferson Clarence Beeker Sr.
2. William Howard Leach

Alice Lee Walsh 1 2 3 4

  • Born: 15 Sep 1915, Danville, Danville, VA 1 3 4 5
  • Marriage (1): Jefferson Clarence Beeker Sr. on 28 Sep 1935 in Danville, Danville, VA 1
  • Marriage (2): William Howard Leach on 5 Feb 1938 in Danville, Danville, VA 2
  • Died: 1 Nov 2008, Greensboro, Guilford, NC at age 93 3 5
  • Buried: Greensboro: Guilford Memorial Park, Guilford, NC, USA 3

   FamilySearch ID: LBM7-5BD.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Newspaper: Greensboro Record: J. C. Beeker Sentenced for Abandonment of Wife, 17 Jan 1936, Greensboro, Guilford, NC. 6 Other cases heard today included: J. C. Beeker, abandonment and non-support, sentenced to serve 12 months on the county roads, judgment suspended on payment of $3 per week for a period of at least two years to his family.

2. Residence: 150 Silver Avenue, Greensboro, NC on 5 Feb 1938 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC. 2 3

3. Obituary: Greensboro News-Record: obituary of Alice Lee Walsh Leach on 3 Nov 2008 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC. 7 Alice Lee Walsh Leach, 93, of 5760 Summit Avenue, died Saturday, November 1, 2008, at her home.

Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, November 4, at Guilford Memorial Park, Greensboro.

She was preceded in death by her husband, William "Bill" Leach, and sons, Paul David and David Flynn Leach; her much loved brothers and sisters, George of Charlotte, James of Greensboro, Robert "Bobby" of Greensboro, and Marjorie of Florahome, Florida.

She leaves behind five children to remember her fondly, Margaret Gell of Cocoa, Fla., Carol Hollifield of Lawrenceville, Ga., Robert Leach of Salisbury, N.C., Wayne Leach of the home, and Gloria Taylor of Havre de Grace, Md.; 18 grandchildren, 32 great-grandchildren and 16 great-great-grandchildren.


Alice married Jefferson Clarence Beeker Sr., son of Thomas Jefferson Beeker Sr. and Annie M. Leonard, on 28 Sep 1935 in Danville, Danville, VA.1 The marriage ended in divorce. (Jefferson Clarence Beeker Sr. was born on 25 Mar 1915 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC,1 8 died on 2 May 1955 in Rockville, Montgomery, MD 8 9 and was buried on 5 May 1955 in Arlington: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA 8.)


Alice next married William Howard Leach, son of Martin Johnson Leach and Margaret Lawrence, on 5 Feb 1938 in Danville, Danville, VA.2 (William Howard Leach was born on 21 Jun 1910 in , , NC,2 10 died on 4 May 1976 in Greensboro, Guilford, NC 10 and was buried in Greensboro: Guilford Memorial Park, Guilford, NC, USA 10.)


Sources


1 FamilySearch.org, Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRQM-G5S Jefferson Clarence Becker and Alice Lee Walsh, 28 Sep 1935; citing Danville, Virginia, reference p37 rn1341; FHL microfilm 2,048,487.

2 Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014 (Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1936-2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.), William Howard Leach and Alice Lee Beeker, 5 Feb 1938.

3 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=31677507.

4 Ancestry.com, Virginia, U.S., Birth Records, 1912-2015, Delayed Birth Records, 1854-1911 (Original data: Virginia, Births, 1864–2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.), Alice Lee Walsh, b. 15 Sep 1915.

5 U.S. Social Security Death Index, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J5GR-D4M Alice W Leach, 01 Nov 2008.

6 Greensboro Record (Greensboro, NC), 17 Jan 1936, page 16.

7 Greensboro News & Record (Greensboro, NC), 3 Nov 2008. Obituary of Alice Lee Walsh Leach.

8 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=35531475.

9 Greensboro Daily News (Greensboro, NC), 4 May 1955, page 7. Obituary of J. C. Beeker.

10 Find A Grave, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=94681904.



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