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From: "Shelley Cardiel" <>
Subject: [MIINGHAM] LESTER + BUCK Family Photographs
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 23:59:34 -0700

I've "rescued" two old photographs of husband and wife Harvey Orrin LESTER
and Ada BUCK LESTER. The photographs were taken at Mrs. M.J. Wyatt's Studio
in Holdrege, Nebraska likely when they became engaged in 1889. Along with
the photographs is a typed "History" of the couple including the following
information:

Harvey Orrin LESTER b. 23 Dec 1862 in Forest Lake, Susquehanna, PA

Ada BUCK, his wife, b. 27 May 1869 in Michigan

In 1888, Harvey spent the winter visiting relatives in Nebraska who had
taken land under the Homestead Act. That same year Ada went to Nebraska
from Michigan to spend the winter with relatives and was asked to teach in
the school there. Harvey courted Ada and they planned to be married after
returning east.

They were married in Michigan on 1 Jan 1890 and made their home there in
Lyons, Ionia, and Okemos, had farms on the fertile flat lands there.

One daughter, Odette LESTER was b. 10 Mar 1907

Ada BUCK LESTER d. 3 Nov 1928
Harvey Orrin LESTER b. 31 Aug 1930

Members of the Methodist Church

Material furnished by a niece Beulah HEFFERAN of Montrose, PA

I believe with very limited research that Ada is, Ada E. BUCK the daughter
of Jacob L. BUCK + Clarissa Louisa WAY and that their daughter Odette T.
LESTER married ??? PETIT and moved to Louisiana were she died 4 Feb 1999.
I'm hoping to find someone from this family so that these precious
photographs with the written history can be returned to its rightful place
with family.

If you are a member of this family or know someone who might be, please
contact me.

Thanks,
Shelley

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