My Trails into the Past

We left off last time with John’s move to Ottawa, Carleton County, Ontario, Canada, where the youngest child, Francis, was born and baptized. No further records of the family in Canada have been found. They eventually emigrated to the United States. We’ll continue the timeline in the first record found for the family. I will be starting with the documents I already have from census records, deeds, federal land records, directories, and in fill will newspaper articles that I found recently, as the newspaper database at NewspaperArchive has grown since the last time I searched. Newspapers add a lot to their story. However, some articles found had the spelling of Gleason, and one cannot be sure if they refer to our Gleeson family. Below are those that have been found at NewspaperArchive specifically for John or Margaret Gleeson. There are many articles about some of their children, though I did not include them unless John or Margaret were named, too. Timeline in South Dakota When th...