Susan Ross and Family

Jacob and Susan Ross Leiter

China used by Susan Ross Leiter. Photo courtesy of Jean Wheeler

Jacob Leiter (b. 02 June 1824 Leitersburg, MD, d. 30 November 1897 Lucas, OH) m. Susan Ross (daughter of Natcher Ross and Sophia Arnold, b. 27 Jan 1827; d. 05 Feb 1904) 28 June 1848. Jacob Leiter was a farmer in Monroe township, Richland County, Ohio. Jacob and Susan are both buried in the IOOF Cemetery in Monroe township, Richland County.

Children:
Clara Ann Leiter b. 25 Oct 1849; d. 10 Jun 1932
m. (1) Daniel Sinclair Coe April 27, 1867. He died September 13, 1881
Children: Ora Anna Coe, Arthur Jacob Coe, Benjamin Franklin Coe
She married (2) Charles H. Cool October 16, 1881
Children: Hazel Cool b. 27 March 1888, Mabel Cool b. ca. 1891

(in 1897 at the probate of her father�s will she known as Clara Cool and lived in Springfield, Ohio)

Mary Alice Leiter b. 05 Dec 1851; d. 30 Jun 1852
Buried in Mt. Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Monroe Twp., Richland Co., Ohio

Sophia Leiter b. 15 May 1853; d. 1932 Sumner, Washington
m. William Hughes Pritchard Jul 1874, Richland Co., Ohio
children: Sample J. Pritchard, b. 1875; Natcher William Pritchard, b. 31 Oct
1878; Lucretia Jane Pritchard, b. 1882; Mary Leiter Pritchard, b. 1885
(This family left Ohio in the late 1880�s, settled first in Colfax, Washington, then
moved on to Tacoma, in Washington Territory.)

Nancy Jane Leiter, b. 31 Oct 1855; d. 1953
m. Norman M. Wolfe 22 Sept 1877
children: Grace May Wolfe, b. 1878; Fred Waldo Wolfe, b.1880; Fay(e) f.
Wolfe, b. 1883; Lucille Wolfe, b. 1890; Janet Wolfe, b. 1900; Norman L. Wolfe, b. 1904
(Sophia Leiter and Nancy Leiter married best friends and law partners; the
Pritchards and Wolfes lived next door to each other in Mansfield, Ohio
until the Pritchards moved to Washington Territory in the late 1880�s)

Natcher Ross Leiter, b. 21 July 1858; d. 13 Jan 1900 in Tacoma, WA
(moved to Tacoma, Washington and was a street contractor there in 1891)

David Samuel Leiter, b. 27 March 1861; d. 04 Sept 1907
m. Margaret Fishack Feb 1886
children: Jacob Leiter; Grace Leiter; Rex Leiter, b. 1890
(lived in Lucas, Ohio at the time of probate of father�s estate)

Elmer Elsworth Leiter, b. 22 Oct 1863
m. Eva Keister 22 Nov 1884 *
children: Lura Leiter; Marie Leiter; Mabel Leiter; Harold Leiter
(lived in Toledo, Ohio at the time of probate of father�s estate)

Mary Frances Leiter, b. 13 January 1867; d. 26 March 1894 in Pierce County, Washington
m. Thomas C. Rummel (b. 1860 Ohio)
children: Dora Rummel, b. 1888; Jessie Rummel, b. 1890
(The Rummel family also moved to Tacoma, Washington. Mary Frances died
before the probate of her father�s estate; her husband Thomas married a second time and had additional family.)

Dora Leiter, b. 24 Sept 1872; d. 05 Apr 1952
m. Dick Rist ca. 1883
child: Dorothy Eugenia Rist, b. 1898, Tacoma, WA
(In 1900 census, mother-in-law Sophia Ross Leiter was at the Rist home in
Washington�probably on a visit there.)

*Elmer Ellsworth Leiter information according to History and Genealogy of the Leiter Families by John A. Leiter, 1971.

[The information given here was compiled from the research of Jean Wheeler and Faye Jensen.]