Engraving enhanced with white chalk.

Date: Sunday, August 13, 2000 12:54 AM
Subject: Cemetery listings- LeSeur
Your work is quite a help when searching for ancestors and I know it is very difficult to spell everything accurately, but there is s misspelling in the listing for Kelloggville Cemetery, the mislisting is John LeSuer, it should read John Lester, I know this to be a fact since he is my fourth great grandfather, I can tell you he was born in The Oblong, Dutchess County, May 20, 1749 the son of Murray and Abigal Akin Lester. John and Tabitha were the parents of my grandmothers grandfather, James P. Lester, who is buried in the Quaker cemetery with his wife Deborah Wood, they were the parents of James A. Lester. If I had know this listing to be incorrect, I could have solved the missing of my ancester, quite a few years ago. So if someone could correct it, it could save others researching the delay I have encountered.

Thank you again, and it really is a useful site.
Donna Bubniak

From: Geraldine Rudloff
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 1:15 PM
Subject: Kellogsville Cemetery LeSeur grave

Hi: The transcription gave the information as the grave of John and Tabitha LeSeur [sp] with some added info about his role as minister and Rev War soldier. Then a Lester descendant wrote to your site some years back that the grave was actually our mutual ancestor John Lester and his wife Tabitha [both Johns born same year]..I was skeptical [there's no proof that John's wife was a Tabitha] and after some 'digging' have been in touch with a LeSeur descendant and she assures me that is indeed John and Tabitha [Mellon] LeSeur in that grave. Unfortunately this death/burial info as that of John Lester has been repeated on numerous family trees. If you could add this info to the notes, it might prevent other researchers from repeating it without substantiation...Jerri Rudloff


This photo also appears on an entry for John Lester due to the two notes above.