Indiana Marriages
Andrew Leaf
marriage:
20 September 1838
Perry, Indiana
spouse:Nancy Weatherholt

THE OLDEST WOMAN OF PERRY COUNTY
Mother of the Lucky Thirteen: has Thirty-three Grandchildren; Fifty Great Grandchildren
Three months from today, if all is well, ninety candles can be lighted on a cake for Mrs. Nancy Leaf, for the twentieth of December she will have reached the ninetieth anniversary of her birthday. She is an interesting woman and the oldest one living in the Tobinsport community. She is the morther of fourteen children, thirteen of whome are living. John, the one who is dead, was killed by a boyonet thrust during the latter part of the Civil War.
Mrs. Leaf is the daughter of Henry and Mary Weatherholt. She first saw the light at what was known as "The Old Chimmeny Place," near the spot where the oil well was drilled on W.S. Leaf's place. When she was seventeen years of age she became the bride of Andrew Leaf, who died nineteen years ago.
During the early life of Mr. and Mrs. Leaf the country in what is now known as the Tobinsport Bottoms was heavly wooded and some days the paths would be as dark as night. Only a few patches were cleared around the houses of the few settlers scattered here and there. Mrs. Leaf says in those days that buggies had never been heard of and people had not even then begun to ride horse back. Everyone walked from one place to another, many even walking as far as Vincennes for a marriage license. The county seat of Perry County was then at Rome, Indiana.
When Mrs. Leaf was a girl the most popular amusement for young and old, was the old fashioned "square dance." Church was also more popular then now and the boys always took their best girls to mettin'.
The Leaf family have laways been noted for their health and lenght of days - they must have been obedient to their parents.
The children, granchildren and great-granchildren of Andrew and Nancy Leaf are given below:
1) Sarah Shoemaker, 2 children, 12 grandchildren, Rome, Ind.
2) John Leaf: unmarried
3) Arad Leaf, 2 children, 5 grandchildren, Tobinsport, Ind.
4) Mary A. Wheeler, 5 children, 14 granchildren, Monroe City, Ind.
5) Thos. H. Leaf, 7 children, 8 grandchildren, Tobinsport, Ind.
6) Z.T. Leaf, 3 children, New Albany, Indiana
7) Levi Leaf, 7 children, 4 grandchildren, Arkansas City, Kan.
8) W.S. Leaf, 6 children, 6 grandchildren, Tobinsport, Ind.
9) Ophelia Shoemaker, Rome, Ind.
10)Matilda Little, 4 children, 1 grandchild, Cannelton, Ind.
11)Emma I. Leaf, Tobinsport, Ind.
12)Millard F. Leaf, 3 children, Derby, Ind.
13)F.M. Leaf, 6 children, Moweaqua, Ill.
14)Eli M. Leaf, 7 children, Genda Springs, Kan.
Cloverport News, Cloverport, Ky, 1911
The Breckenridge News, 20 Sep 1911

Cannelton Telephone, 28 Jan 1915, Nancy Weatherholt Leaf, wid/o Andrew, 93y1m4d, obit, upper cemetery.