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Lorenzo Leppert
In the 1880 census, Lorenzo is boarding with
Jacob Geiger, a
Spring Valley pioneer, working as a farm
hand. Earlier, Mr. Leppert was a stage coach driver coming into Spring
Valley and met Jacob during his layovers. In 1884, he and James Baker,
another Spring Valley resident, farmed together and “were looking for
wives during their bachelorhood.” During that time Lorenzo also had a
“peddling wagon” to sell Jacob’s goods from the
Grange Store, which he managed. While
working at the store, Lorenzo contacted smallpox and later died
January 27, 1885. The Spring Valley Grange Store mysteriously burned
down on April 13, 1885 and never re-opened. At the time he became ill,
Lorenzo was engaged to Jany Richey, who
eventually caught the disease herself and died on February 26, 1885,
before they could be married.
125 years later at the
Spring Valley
Cemetery Tour (2010, June 19) the Reverend Atkinson married the
couple in a mock ceremony.
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