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Show Life and Death 8/7/24, 7:20 PM Life and Death Posted Sep 7, 2018 by Rainiday57 William Bellion McCleery was born on Friday at 8 a.m. October 11th 1850 In Ireland, (all records show he was born in Liverpool, England) the son of William McCleery Jr. and Ellen Bellion McCleery. (His daughter Lottie Leonard) told me several times that her dad was a twin, and had a sister, but she was born dead). His parents joined the LDS church in England and came to America in 1872, and then William came on September 15th 1875 at the age of 25 years and sailed on the ship “Wyoming.” After being in America for about three years, at the age of 28 he was married to Ida Alferette Murray McClure, age 16. This being on July 24th 1878 by B. L. Cutler, Justice of the Peace, and witnessed by his brother, Nephi McCleery and Samuel Bateman. Ida’s mother (Louise) re-married to a Mr. McClure and he adopted Ida so she went by the name of McClure. Then later, her mother (Louise) married a man by the name of Cooper but Ida did not go by the Cooper name. According to Temple records, 2013 Olive Louise Morrison married John Harvey McClure, no date given, and Ida was the only child listed. She married Thomas Merry 28 September 1867 in Bloom, Richland, Wisconsin and had a child Albert M Merry born 1868 in Wisconsin. She married Alexander Cooper (1844-1904) in 1877 and had three children Effie 1878; Alva B 1880-1935; and Nora Jane 1884. Ida’s mother was living in Sandy, Utah. Ida and William were living in Salt Lake and they were expecting their first child. They went to Sandy to visit with her mother and while there, Ida went into labor and gave birth on August 14th 1879 and they named her “Lottie Maynee McCleery.” (This was the one that I got acquainted with). Lottie only weighed three pounds and they were afraid to travel with her and so they remained in Sandy for quite a while before going back to their home in Salt Lake. A Mrs. Harrison took care of Ida and the baby. Their second child, Olive, was born January 14, 1881 and died the next day. Deseret, their third child, was born on August 8th, 1882 and then a son, Lawrence was born May 4, 1884. Another son was born to Ida and William and he was given the name of William Donald McCleery, born April 3, 1887. Ida was in poor health and so the doctor told her that she shouldn’t have any more children. Ida had a friend that was expecting a child. She had two very serious diseases and the doctors figured they could save the baby but the mother would surely die, so the girl asked Ida if she would take her baby and raise it. Ida was advised against it because the baby didn’t have a very good background and Ida not in very good health herself. The child’s father was never to know that the child was alive or where it was because he had threatened to kill it. Ida said she had two daughters that could help her raise the child. (Lottie about 13 and Deseret a little younger). The child was born, (a boy). The mother died as the doctors said she would. On November 16th 1894 a nurse came to Ida’s house carrying a big basket and in it was this baby boy, so Ida took this little baby and raised him and they gave him the name of Earl Cedric McCleery. At the age of ten years, Earl got into trouble, and at the age of eleven, he was put into reform school. He forged checks and did various other things and was in and out of trouble all of his life. Earl married Ida Bough. They had a baby girl. She had a bad heart and passed away when about three years old. Then https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/15364…/8e958a45-fd63-4537-9393-e8e175b54ae7?galleryindex=1&sort=-created Page 1 of 2 Life and Death 8/7/24, 7:20 PM about one year later, his wife (Ida Bough) had a heart attack and died. Earl married three times. The 2nd marriage, there were no children born, but the third marriage, he had two sons born. (One of his wives was named Berniece). The doctors would prescribe medicine for Earl but instead of taking it, he would sell the drugs to get money, so in 1963, he was put into prison in Seattle, Washington for peddling dope. In November of 1963, he was still in prison and was supposed to be undergoing an operation of some kind. Now to get back to William and Ida. William had taken up the occupation of being a shoe-maker and about the year 1901 he was given the position of foreman in the shoe shop at the Utah school for the deaf in Ogden, Utah, working there for seven years as an instructor in the art of shoemaking. William was a thorough master of his trade and was considered a very competent instructor. Mr. Frank W. Metcalf was the superintendent at the school. William specialized in making shoes for people that were crippled. (I guess this shoemaking business sure did run in the McCleery family, as several were into doing it). One woman had one leg shorter than the other, so William made her a pair of shoes so she no longer had to limp. When William got too old to make shoes, he gave his patterns away so that others could go on making them. William and Ida were not getting along very well and Ida was not happy staying at home. There were 16 years between her and William (in their ages) so she went out seeking other men, so the two of them separated and Ida had two more husbands. Jack Flinn and Charles Young. One time William dressed up in woman’s clothing and I understand he got arrested, and his picture hit the newspaper, showing him dressed as a woman. William made his home for a while at 60 East Stratford Avenue in South Salt Lake with his daughter, Lottie. Death came to William Bellion McCleery on Monday, March 28th 1932 at the age of eighty-one years, in the Salt Lake Hospital from “Infirmities” incident to age, and the funeral services were held on Thursday, at 1 p. m. in the Rose Room at the Deseret Mortuary in Salt Lake with Elder John McKnight officiating, then the burial was held in the South Jordan Cemetery. Ida went to Portland, Oregon now to make her home with her daughter, Deseret, that was living there. (Earl Cedric was still having problems and she would give him money instead of keeping it for herself). At the age of eighty-nine years, death came to Ida in Portland, Oregon on August 4th, 1951. The funeral services were held on August 7th and she was laid to rest in the cemetery in Portland, Oregon. Funeral services for William Bellion McCleary, 82, shoemaker of 62 East Stratford Avenue, who died in a local hospital late Monday of infirmities incident to age, will be held at the Deseret Mortuary Rose Room Thursday at 1 pm. John M Knight, LSD Elder officiating. Mr McCleary was born October 11 1849 in Ireland, and came to Salt Lake in 1875 where he began his shoemaking business. He is survived by his widow, Mrs Ida McCleary, Salt Lake; two daughters Mrs Lottie Leonard, Salt Lake and Mrs Deseret Schaeffer, Portland Oregon, and three sons William, Reno, Earl, Portland and Lawrence, Salt Lake. https://www.ancestry.com/mediaui-viewer/collection/1030/tree/15364…/8e958a45-fd63-4537-9393-e8e175b54ae7?galleryindex=1&sort=-created Page 2 of 2 |
