LEANDER’S FINAL DAYS WERE NOT PLEASANT ONES, ADMITTED TO THE HOSPITAL AND AWAITING DEATH.

In his six years, from 1926 up until his death in April 1932, Leander’s life changed a great deal. Three years before his death in April of 1932, Aleatha, his wife of thirty-nine years died. The year before Leander died, James, his son died. His son Bill had died in 1926. James’s wife Carrie, Leander’s daughter-in-law, died in February 1930. But he still was blessed with his grandson John, John’s wife Esther, and there was his granddaughter, Bertha. He also had three very young great-grandsons, Jim Robert, Harold Marshall and John Raymond Setters and a great-granddaughter, Mildred Setters. John, Leander’s grandson, was her father. But John and the girl’s mother had gone their separate ways. John had remarried and from that marriage came the three great-grandsons.

Leander had suffered a stroke, becoming a very old and feeble white bearded man of ninety-two. Prior to his being admitted to the hospital, Esther Setters, John’s wife, remembers Leander rushing out, as best he could, to her 1928 Dodge as she went to the store, Leander would make noises but unable to speak chewing on his doubled-up forefinger meaning he wanted her to buy him tobacco for his pipe. The pipe was in his mouth constantly.

Isaac Baldwin, 1730-1791, a soldier in the Revolution from Connecticut would be Leander’s 3rd Great Grandfather.  And, whose granddaughter, Alcinoe, married John Cherry, son of Capt. William Cherry of Virginia. John Cherry’s daughter Sarah Ann married George Washington Black.

Leander had ancestors who were noteworthy Revolutionary Patriots.

SO, LEANDER SETTERS, WHO WAS AN HONOR TO THE HILLS HE CHOSE TO LIVE IN, COULD GO WITH PRIDE.

Much of the above material was written by Larry Clum, and a relative of Esther Roberts, the mother of Harold, Jim and Raymond Setters, Leander’s great grandsons.

Larry is a talented follower of ancestorial data.