An American Family History

Leathy Ann Taylor Stringfield Gilman was born on January 22, 1851 in Shelby County, Ohio. She was the daughter of Jacob Taylor and Sarah Branstiter.

Leathy married, William Ray Stringfield in McLean County, Illinois on September 22, 1872. William was born in June, 1851 in Missouri. His parents were William Ray Stringfield and Almyra Simpson. His father died when he was quite young. In 1870 he was living in Funk's Grove, McLean County, Illinois with his siblings, Thomas and Ada.

Leathy and William's children were:
Louise Stringfield (1873),
Jessie May Stringfield Williamson (1875, married John Elmer Williamson) and
Sarah Alice (Allie) F. Stringfield (1877). 

William died on March 10, 1877 and is buried with Leathy's father, sister, and brothers in row 37 of Carlisle Cemetery.

Alice married Charles B. Schooler in 1895 and they had five children. They were
Karl P. Schooler (1898),
Edith H. Schooler Conant (1900-1955) who married Harry Clair Conant (1896-1963) in 1902,
Anna Arnitus Schooler (1904), 
Dean Harold Schooler (1907-1999 married Ellen Lavaun Gardner (1910-1999), and
Murray Schooler (1910-1994 married Mary Ellen (1913-1994)).

Allie lived next door to her grandmother Sarah Taylor at the time of the 1900 census.

Leathy married, Henry C. Gilman on February 13,  1879. Henry was born in July, 1836 in Pennsylania. He was the son of Michael Gilman and Elizabeth McCoy.

Henry had children from a previous marriage: Laura A. Gilman (1854) and  Walter Lorain Gilman (1867).

Leathy and Henry had one child, Harry Michael Gilman (1883-1911) who married Mary.

The Gilmans appeared in the 1880 census in the 5th Ward of Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. The household consisted of C. H. Gillman age 43, Lethe A. age 29, Walter age 13, Jessie M. age five, and Alice age three.

Leathy was left a widow again on July 22, 1893 when Henry died. She (Lethe Gilman) appeared in the 1900 census in Des Moines, Iowa with her daughter Jessie Stringfield and her seventeen year old son, Harry M. Gilman. They had three roomers. At the time of her mother's death in 1911 she was living in Somerset, Iowa.

At the time of the 1910 census Leathy was with her mother and sisters in Lincoln Township, Warren County, Iowa. The household consisted of Leathy A. Gilman age 59, Sarah Taylor age 82, Sarah Jane Burgett age 51 and Louisa Long age 61.

She died at age 63 on September 12, 1914 in Summerset, Warren County, Iowa. She is buried in Palmyra Cemetery, Warren County, Iowa with her third husband Henry. The inscription on her tombstone reads "Leatha Ann Taylor, Wife of C.H. (sic) Gilman, Jan. 22, 1851, Sep. 12. 1914."