Leona M. Eckman
(1884-1963)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Joseph Hurd Pruitt

Leona M. Eckman 1 2

  • Born: 11 Mar 1884, Goodland, Newton, IN, USA 1 3
  • Marriage (1): Joseph Hurd Pruitt about 1906
  • Died: 3 Feb 1963, West Bradford Township, Chester, PA, USA at age 78 1
  • Buried: 7 Feb 1963, Lovejoy Township: Floral Hill Cemetery, Iroquois, IL, USA 1 3

   FamilySearch ID: LRW9-T9P.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Census in 1910 in Wellington, Iroquois, IL, USA. 4 The 1910 census recorded renting a home: Joseph Pruitt Jr., farmer, 30, living with wife Leona, 26. The census columns record they were married for 4 years and she had birthed 0 children by 1910. Joseph was born in Illinois, his wife in Indiana and mother in Michigan. Leona and her parents were born in Indiana. Next door is Joseph's brother, farmer, Frank Pruitt, 39, with his wife Myrtle, 33, and their children.

2. Census in 1920 in Wellington, Iroquois, IL, USA. 5 The 1920 census recorded owning a home: Joe Pruit, Jr. [sic], farmer, 39, living with wife Leonice [sic, as indexed due to poor handwriting of Leona], 35, and daughter Mary A., 5. Joe was born in Illinois, his father in Indiana and mother in Michigan. Leonia and her parents were born in Indiana. Mary was born in Illinois.

3. Census in 1930 in Wellington, Iroquois, IL, USA. 6 The 1930 census recorded renting a home: Joseph Pruitt Jr., farmer, 50, living with wife Leona M., 46; and daughter Mary A., 16. Joseph was married at age 26 and Leona at 22. Joseph was born in Illinois, his father in Indiana and mother in Michigan. Leona and her father were born in Indiana and her mother in Illinois. Mary was born in Illinois.

4. Census in 1940 in Wellington, Iroquois, IL, USA. 7 The 1940 census recorded owning a $2000 home: Joseph Pruitt Jr., farmer, 60, living with wife Leona M., 56. He was born in Illinois, she in Indiana, and they lived in the same house in 1935.

5. Residence: on 12 May 1956 in Wellington, Iroquois, IL, USA. 8

6. Cause of Death: Leona died at Embreeville State Hospital in West Bradford Township from bronchopneumonia, 3 Feb 1963, West Bradford Township, Chester, PA, USA. 3

7. Fact: The informant on her death certificate was daughter Mary Pruitt Harlan, 221 Sproul Road, Villanova, PA 19085, 3 Feb 1963. 3

8. Residence: on 3 Feb 1963 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA. 2

9. Obituary: Brook Reporter: obituary of Leona Eckman Pruitt on 7 Feb 1963 in Brook, Newton, IN, USA. 2 MRS. JOSEPH PRUITT DIES IN PHILADELPHIA
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Tedford received word of the death of the latter's sister, Mrs. Leona Eckman Pruitt, which occurred Sunday morning, in Philadelphia, where Mr. and Mrs. Pruitt had been making their home with their daughter. Mrs. Mary Harlan. Mrs. Pruitt had not been well for some time and, only recently, had suffered a fractured arm and a fractured hip.
She was a daughter of the late J. J. Eckman and Mary Petit Eckman, and was born in Goodland, in the home of her maternal grandparents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Petit. Goodland was her home for several years, during the time her father, Mr. Eckman, served as Principal of Goodland Schools. However the greater part of her life was spent in Illinois where she was married to Joseph Pruitt and where they lived near East Lynn, Wellington and Hoopeston, Ill. Upon retirement from farming the home was established in Hoopeston, until about three years ago, they joined their daughter in Philadelphia.
Surviving with the husband, the daughter, Mrs. Harlan, and the sister, Mrs. Tedford, is a granddaughter, Mary Jo Harlan of Philadelphia, and a brother, Claude A. Eckman of Battle Creek, Mich. The body was brought to Hoopeston where funeral services were scheduled for Thursday morning, at the Wood Funeral Home, with burial in Floral Hill, Hoopeston.


Leona married Joseph Hurd Pruitt, son of Joseph Austin Pruitt and Augusta Lydia Hurd, about 1906. (Joseph Hurd Pruitt was born on 13 Feb 1880 in Lovejoy Township, Iroquois, IL, USA,9 10 died on 27 Dec 1965 in New York, New York, NY 9 11 12 and was buried in Lovejoy Township: Floral Hill Cemetery, Iroquois, IL, USA 9.)


Sources


1 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27860678.

2 "The Brook Reporter (Brook, IN)," 7 Feb 1963, page 6. Obituary of Leona Eckman Pruitt.

3 Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania, U.S., Death Certificates, 1906-1968 (Original data: Pennsylvania (State). Death certificates. Records of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Record Group 11. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.), Certificate 013861-63. Leona Pruitt (indexed wrong as Druitt) parents unknown. Place of death: Embreeville State Hospital, 1818 Strasburg Rd., West Bradford Township, 19320.

4 1910 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKDD-XF1 Joseph Pruitt Jr., Lovejoy, Iroquois, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 78, sheet 10B, family 59.

5 1920 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJ4W-LBB Joe Pruit, Jr, Lovejoy, Iroquois, Illinois, United States; citing ED 83, sheet 7B, line 68, family 24.

6 1930 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XSY2-T94 Joseph Pruitt, Lovejoy, Iroquois, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 30, sheet 2A, line 7, family 26.

7 1940 United States Census, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWHZ-7K5 Joseph Pruitt, Lovejoy Township, Iroquois, Illinois, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 38-35, sheet 1B, line 68, family 16.

8 "Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)," 12 May 1956, page 5. Obituary of Mrs. Mary S. Eckman, mother of Leona Eckman Pruitt.

9 Find A Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/27860650.

10 United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QR1D-LZPZ Josephn Pruitt Jr, 1917-1918.

11 U.S. Social Security Death Index, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:J18N-VZH Joseph Pruitt, Dec 1965.

12 Ancestry.com, "New York, New York, Death Index, 1949-1965," Joseph Pruitt, age 85, death 27 Dec 1965, Manhattan, NY. Certificate 26695.



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