Montgomery County PA Archives Obituaries.....LEAF, William December 17, 1885 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Diana Quinones audiana@msn.com September 30, 2005, 12:52 am Montgomery Ledger, 12/22/1885 edition Death of a Well Known Citizen William Leaf died on Friday afternoon, at the residence of his son, Henry P Leaf, in Upper Pottsgrove, aged 71years, 9 months and 2 days. He had been ill for some time past, with a complication of diseases, resulting from general dibility, advanced age and hemorrhage, which caused inanition and terminated his life. He leaves one son, with whom he resided for a number of years past. He was a member of a well known family of nine or ten brothers and sister, of whom one only survives, Rev. Edmund Leaf, rector of St Michael's Episcopal Church, Birdsboro. He organized and stocked the Fifth and Sixth Street Passenger Railway, of Philadelphia; the Georgetown and Washington Passenger Railway, Washington, DC, and was Superintendent for some time of both these lines. He was also Superintendent for a number of years of the Orange and Newark Passenger Railway, at Newark, NJ. He possessed a wide acquaintanceship, had hosts of warm friends, who esteemed him for many excellent qualities of head and heart. Additional Comments: William LEAF was husband of Mary Ann LIGHTCAP. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb