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Levi Lakey and Mary Loviney Stevens on their wedding day September 15,
1889
LEVI LAKEY (son of Simon Lakey and
Martha Delisa Miller) was born November 15, 1851 in Douglas County,
Missouri, and died June 23, 1933 in OSWEGO, LABETTE CO, KS. He
married MARY LOVINEY STEVENS September 15, 1889. She
died May 1898.
After Levi's fathers death, Levi took
over looking after his mother and the rest of the children. He didn't
get any schooling and couldn't write his name. It isn't known just when
the family moved but eventually they moved to western Missouri near
Pittsburg, Kansas. The boys all worked in and around the coal mines in
Litchfield, Kansas and Rich Hill, Missouri.
Submitted by:
Leanna Ehler
1138 Osage
Augusta, Kansas 67010
leannaehler@kscable.com
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