Leathers family

John Vinson Leathers that is buried in our little cemetery was born in 1827 in Rutherford Co., Tennessee.  He married Emily Catherine Lipps in Tennessee before coming to Arkansas.  His brother Raleigh H. M. Leathers married Margaret Rachel Lipps and his sister Elizabeth Ann leathers married first Thomas Callen and second James Harrison Lipps. There was also a brother Alfred that married a Callen.  This Alfred, uncle to Watson Leathers, was also a teacher and he and his wife are buried in the cemetery over by the old Stone place.  All these individuals migrated to Arkansas.  Raleigh lived near Capps / Batavia in Boone Co.  Elizabeth Ann Callen Lipps lived somewhere close to her brother John. Alfred and John both owned land right here.

John Leathers had four children:  Scotia Leathers married Thomas Capps.  She has a child buried in this cemetery.  The Capps left the area for New Mexico sometime around 1910-20.  James McClure Leather married and moved to Oklahoma. Turvilla Estella Leathers married John I Worthington.  Alfred Eugene Leathers married Elizabeth Kirkham.  Alfred, the school teacher and state Representative from Carroll Co., was the  father of Homer, Hosea, Watson, Ruth and Rena Leathers.  Ruth married Arlis McNemar and Rena married Herbert Charles Hedrick.  Homer, born 1894, was a dentist that lived in Fayetteville. He married an Eldridge.

Alfred and Elizabeth (Betty), Watson and Ruby, Hosea and his wife are all buried in Glenwood Cemetery.

I found it interesting, from the CCHS book I  have, that Blackburn Henderson Berry, the founder of Berryville, purchased a portion of the Leathers estate in Tennessee in 1854.  Blackburn Henderson Berry is on our abstract as a homestead claim from an Indian.  The CCHS article does not explain any connection between the Leathers and Berry.