Last child of Jacob Wendell and his #2 wife Nancy (Fox) Gould. Fox was maiden name and first marriage was to John Gould.

NOTE: Her full name was Imilda Leona Wendell. She as a child and early adult went by the name of Imilda and in the family Milda. In her adulthood she preferred the name Leona to Imilda and signed her name as Leona W. Berrian.

Actually born at Wilsey Hill near Warren, Herkimer County, New York.

Married James Augustus Berrian 17 August 1865 in Washington County, Wisconsin.

Ashes buried at time of her son, Howard Clarence Berrian, death with him in July 1933.

Children:

Ada Louise married James Lucius Edwin Clark
James Wendell married Harriet "Mazzie" Hammonds
Arleigh died of whooping cough when less than one year
George Waller married # 1 Hazel Pillsbury #2 Angie Warren
Lulu Jennie married Edwin Marshall Hill
Howard Clarence married Alice Streeper Married # 2 a man with last name of Welch

Full siblings:

William Hershell married Anna Maria Bidwell
James Homer married Julia Knapp
Washington married Mary Smith
Lucina married #1 Horatio Vunk, #2 Earlman Rogers Hatch
Nelson Orville killed Salem Church, Virginia 3 May 1863
Sally Louisa "Lou-ize" married John H. Marcellus
Charles D. married Cynthia Bartlett

1/2 siblings from her mother's @1 marriage

Nancy Jane Gould married Horace Haner
George married #1 Amanda Williams #2 Eleanor Colwell Sherman

1/2 siblings from father's #1 marriage to Magdelena Snyder

John Isaac married Nancy Diefendorf
Catherina "Katie" married James Herdman
Jacob married Margaret Failing
Margaret/Margaretha died in infancy
Benjamin D. married Sarah Fox
Wesley died in infancy
Sarah died in infancy
Magdelena "Lena" died in infancy
Anna Maria married #1 Sydney Hills #2 Alexander Herdman
Jonas married Jane M. Gilmore
Susan married George Walrath
Sarah married Samuel W. Wright
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Afterh the death of her mother when she was 10 and her father when she was 14 she lived with various brothers and sisters, finally ending up in Washington County, Wisconsin with her sisters Lou-ize and Lucina.

After her marriage she lived in various places in Wisconsin, Minnesota and even Illinois before her husband, along with three small children went by trail to San Fransisco, up the coast line, to Portland, Oregon, up Columbia River and ended up first in the newly platted town of Goldendale, Washington Territory, They had a homestead and eventually due to her husband's health had to leave and moved down to Columbus, now Maryhill, Washington.

After her husband's death she remained there to raise her family. She was an excellent school teacher, wrote many poems.

She did remarry on 1 January 1887 to Francis Miller of Cliffs, Klickitat County, Washington. They only lived together a few weeks as he became abusive to her and her children. Upon hearing and seeing the results for himself, her son in law Lucius Clark personally escorted Mr. Miller off the property and told him NEVER to return. She washed her hands of him, but never went so far as to file for a divorce. She did transfer her holdings into the name of one of her sons to protect the property from Miller. She never set eyes on him again. In 1909 he filed for divorce from her on the grounds of "desertion." She made no reply to any court summons or anything. He did obtain the divorce.

She came from the Wendell's which were one of the founding Dutch families of Albany, New York.