Sophia Spangler ¹

  General Notes:

An obituary from the Waterloo Press indicated that Sophia was born on February 3, 1790 in Adams County, PA The Waterloo Press obit also indicated that Sophia was 18 years old when she married John


Notes from Kathryn (Leas) Stuart:

WIFE NOTES: Sophia SPANGLER
Birth(9):
Death(10):
Burial(11):
General: Colonel Leas was a farmer and in 1818 he
emigrated to Stark county, Ohio, where he began operations
on a tract of virgin soil. In 1838 he went to Guernsey
county, that state, and there again created a good farm out
of what was formerly a wilderness. In the fall of 1852 the
Colonel came to DeKalb county, Indiana, and located on
section 5, Smithfield township, where he again made a farm,
and there he remained until 1866, when he moved to
Waterloo, where his death occurred in 1875.

While a resident of Stark county, Ohio, he was commissioned colonel
of a regiment of militia. In politics he was a Jacksonian
Democrat and he acceptably filled a number of local
offices. His wife died in 1882. They were members of the
Reformed church, Colonel Leas, who was a man of more than
ordinary ability, became a prominent figure and an
important factor in the affairs of the various communities
where he lived and enjoyed universal respect.
(From Biography of son John Leas

  Noted events in her life were:

• Residence: US Census, 1870, Waterloo, Union Township, Dekalb County, Indiana. Age 71

Sophia married John Leas, son of John Leas and Sophia Ziegler, about 1816 in Maybe Adams Co or York Co, PA. (John Leas was born on 18 May 1798 in Adams Co., PA, died on 11 Jan 1875 in Waterloo, Dekalb Co., IN and was buried in Waterloo Cemetery, Waterloo, Dekalb County, Indiana ².)