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Sarah “Cy” <I>Leep</I> Porter

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Sarah “Cy” Leep Porter

Birth
Abbey, Swift Current Census Division, Saskatchewan, Canada
Death
28 Dec 2000 (aged 84)
Highland, Lake County, Indiana, USA
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Highland, Lake County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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The Leep families moved in 1911 from Chicago to Canada and settled in the former tiny Dutch community of Cramersburg, on the prairies in the southwestern part of the southern central Canadian province Saskatchewan, 5 miles south of the river with the same name and 13 miles north of Abbey. Sarah was born there in June 1916. See for much more info and photos of Cramersburg and the Leeps: http://www.calvin.edu/hh/origins/Spring89.pdf.

In 1923 Sarah's family had to leave Cramersburg because of animal diseases, coldness, drought, dust bowls, grashopper invasions and several successive crop failures and moved to Highland, Lake County, in the utter northwestern part of Indiana, adjacent to Cook County and Chicago in Illinois.

In 1930 Sarah (13 y, born in Canada), her father Eward Leep (53 y), her siblings Garrett (24, Illinois), Antony (21, Illinois), Jane (18, Canada), Fannie (16, Canada), James (15, Canada) and her grandmother Clara Leep (80, Holland) lived in Highland, Lake County, northwest Indiana. In Highland came quite some Dutch settlers after the construction of a railroad.

In May 1940 Sarah (23, Canada), her husband Joe Porter (26, Indiana, com. agent & truck driver for oil distribution) and their daughter Sandra Lee (1, Indiana) lived at an own home, worth $6000, at N. Colfax St. in the town of Griffith, Calumet Township, Lake County, Indiana. Sarah and Joe lived in 1935 both at a rural place in Lake County, Indiana, probably in or near Highland.

Her husband Joseph Porter died in August 1975 at the age of 62 years, very probably in Highland, Lake County, Indiana. Sarah died there too in December 2000 at the age of 84 years.

The Leep families moved in 1911 from Chicago to Canada and settled in the former tiny Dutch community of Cramersburg, on the prairies in the southwestern part of the southern central Canadian province Saskatchewan, 5 miles south of the river with the same name and 13 miles north of Abbey. Sarah was born there in June 1916. See for much more info and photos of Cramersburg and the Leeps: http://www.calvin.edu/hh/origins/Spring89.pdf.

In 1923 Sarah's family had to leave Cramersburg because of animal diseases, coldness, drought, dust bowls, grashopper invasions and several successive crop failures and moved to Highland, Lake County, in the utter northwestern part of Indiana, adjacent to Cook County and Chicago in Illinois.

In 1930 Sarah (13 y, born in Canada), her father Eward Leep (53 y), her siblings Garrett (24, Illinois), Antony (21, Illinois), Jane (18, Canada), Fannie (16, Canada), James (15, Canada) and her grandmother Clara Leep (80, Holland) lived in Highland, Lake County, northwest Indiana. In Highland came quite some Dutch settlers after the construction of a railroad.

In May 1940 Sarah (23, Canada), her husband Joe Porter (26, Indiana, com. agent & truck driver for oil distribution) and their daughter Sandra Lee (1, Indiana) lived at an own home, worth $6000, at N. Colfax St. in the town of Griffith, Calumet Township, Lake County, Indiana. Sarah and Joe lived in 1935 both at a rural place in Lake County, Indiana, probably in or near Highland.

Her husband Joseph Porter died in August 1975 at the age of 62 years, very probably in Highland, Lake County, Indiana. Sarah died there too in December 2000 at the age of 84 years.

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