Ancestors

Richard Woodrow Leake1,2

#3339, b. 9 February 1919, d. 11 September 1988
     Richard Woodrow Leake was born on 9 February 1919 Missouri.3 Richard and Ruth Virginia Messing, daughter of Claus A. Messing and Anna Palmer, were married 12 October 1940 Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona, They were both listed as living in Alhambra, California, at the time, He was in the Navy.4 Richard Woodrow Leake and Ruth Virginia Messing were divorced on 1 August 1949 Multnomah County, Oregon.5 Richard and Ruth Virginia Messing, daughter of Claus A. Messing and Anna Palmer, were married 29 May 1952 Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon.3 Richard Woodrow Leake died 11 September 1988, in Beaverton, Washington Count;y, Oregon at age 69 years, 7 months and 2 days.6
     Richard and Ruth had two children, Alan and Jon.

Family of Richard and Ruth

Charts
Berger, Jonathan #3263, b ca 1700 Switzerland or Germany, d PA
Graves, Francis #708 b say 1630 d Aug 1691, Virginia
Nowlan, John # 867, b bef 1580, Ireland, d Ireland
Pinckard, John # 1404 b ca 1642 d 1690, Lancaster County, Virginia
Wade, Edward # 838, in Virginia bef 1746
Beasley, John #2041 b ca 1717 d bt 1781-1782, Buckingham County, Virginia
Bruce, John #403 b ca 1724, Kinnard, Scotland d ca 1752, Orange County, Virginia
Claye, John #1523, b ca 1588, England, d bef 1660, Virginia
Eyres, Joseph # 7329, b 17th century, Virginia or England
Ferris, Richard # 2074, b say 1620 or so, immi 1636, d Virginia
Fuquett, Gills # 3276, d Virginia
Green, Thomas # 2060 b 1700. d Virginia
Hooker, Thomas # 3118 d bef 1637, London
Humphreys, William # 7331, d Virginia
Lewis, John # 2831, b ca 1620, d Virginia
Marston?, Thomas # 2756, No further information
Povall, Robert # 409 b 1653, England d 1728, Virginia
Samson, Francis # 3266 in Virginia bef 1700
Wilson, John # 417, b say 1620s, England or Henrico County, Virginia
Woodson, John (Dr.) # 133 b ca 1586, England, d 18 Apr 1644, Burmuda Hundred, Virginia
Bobbitt, William (Captain) # 6079, b 1744, Virginia, d 1817 Fancy Gap, Virginia
Brown, Benonia # 4108, lived in New York
Hardwick, J. # 2729, probably from Virginia mid 18th century
Humphries, George # 2771 b ca 1770, North Carolina, d aft 1850, Kentucky
Parks, (--?--) # 3649, in Maryland bef 1770
Reed, Calvin # 3348, in Michigan before 1835
Beasley, John #2041 b ca 1717 d bt 1781-1782
Berger, Jonathan #3263
Bobbitt, William (Captain) # 6079
Brown, Benonia # 4108
Bruce, John #403 b ca 1724 d ca 1752
Claye, John #1523 b ca 1588
Eyres, Joseph # 7329
Ferris, Richard # 2074
Fuquett, Gills # 3276
Graves, Francis #708 b say 1630 d Aug 1691
Green, Thomas # 2060 b 1700
Hardwick, J. # 2729
Hooker, Thomas # 3118 d bef 1637
Humphreys, William # 7331
Humphries, George # 2771 b ca 1770 d aft 1850
Lewis, John # 2831
Marston?, Thomas # 2756
Nowlan, John # 867
Palmer, (--?--) # 1755 b ca 1708 d ca 1793
Parks, (--?--) # 3649
Pinckard, John # 1404 b ca 1642 d 1690
Povall, Robert # 409 b 1653 d 1728
Reed, Calvin # 3348
Samson, Francis # 3266
Wade, Edward # 838
Wilson, John # 417
Woodson, John (Dr.) # 133 b ca 1586 d 18 Apr 1644
Last Edited=13 Mar 2023

Citations

  1. [S241] Interview with Marilyn Hudson Buley (Portland, Oregon), by Patricia Dunford, 01/25/05.
  2. [S395] Ancestry.com, online Ancestry.com, Arizona, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1865-1972 for Richard Woodrow Leake and Ruth Messing.
  3. [S395] Ancestry.com, online Ancestry.com, Oregon, U.S., State Marriages, 1906-1968 for Ruth V Leake.
  4. [S779] 1950 US Census Population Schedule, Washington, District of Columbia, Population Schedule, US National Archives, United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Portland, Multnomah, Oregon; Roll: 3884; Sheet Number: 14; Enumeration District: 37-358.
  5. [S395] Ancestry.com, online Ancestry.com, Ruth Virginia Messing Leake and Richard W Leake
    in the Oregon, U.S., State Divorces, 1925-1968.
  6. [S419] FindAGrave, online FindAGrave.com, MEMORIAL ID 36299843.