Jennie M. Temple

Jennie M. Temple

• Father: Robert Temple b. say 1840

• Jennie M. Temple was born in April 1867 in London, Ontario, Canada.
• She married Charles Henry Leavens, son of Edward Leavens and Ann or Amy (?), circa 1885.
• Charles Henry Leavens and Jennie M. Temple appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 465 Connecticut Street enumerated next to Charles' parents.. Other members of the household included Mazie Florence Leavens.
• Charles Henry Leavens and Jennie M. Temple appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 265 Hoyt Street. Other members of the household included Mazie Florence Leavens.
• Charles Henry Leavens and Jennie M. Temple appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Buffalo, New York, at 265 Hoyt Street. Other members of the household included Mazie Florence Leavens, Harold Wilson Brauer, Jean Bernice Brauer and Harold Julius Brauer Winslow.
• Jennie M. Temple became a widow at the 23 May 1925 death of her husband.
• The following appeared on 24 May 1925 in the Buffalo Courier: Charles H. Leavens, sixty-one years old, former head of the Leavens Baking Co., ended his life yesterday by cutting his throat with a razor in the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harold Baruer, No. 144 Palmer avenue, Kenmore. Medical Examiner Earl G. Danser, who issued a certificate of suicide, said the man had been suffering from melancholia.
       Mrs. Brauer's eight-year-old son, Harry, found his grandfather dead in the cellar. He called his mother. Leavens had been dead only a short time when the woman reached his side.
       Mr. Leavens is survived by his widow and only daughter, Mrs. Brauer. Until a few days ago the former bakery head and his wife had been living at a local hotel, taking up residence with Mrs. Brauer prior to moving back to their home on Hoyt street.
• The following appeared on 9 June 1925 in The Buffalo Morning Express: Mrs. Jennie Leavens, widow of the late Charles H. Leavens, will receive an annual income of not less than $3,600 from his estate, according to the terms of his will, filed yesterday. Mrs. Maizie Brauer, daughter, is given the home at No. 144 Palmer avenue, Kenmore. Among the other bequests is one of $500 to the Richmond Avenue Methodist Episcopal church.
       The estate of Leavens, who recently killed himself in the home of his daughter, is estimated at $60,000.
• Jennie M. Temple died on 25 May 1927 at age 60 in Kenmore, Erie County, New York.
• She was interred at Elmlawn Cemetery, Kenmore, Erie County, Ontario.
• The following appeared on 25 May 1927 in the Buffalo Evening News: [Died] In Kenmore, N Y., May 25, 1927, Jennie, wife of the late Charles H. Leavens, mother of Mrs. H. Wilson Brauer, sister of Robert H., Wallace and Herbert L. Temple. Funeral from the home of her daughter, 31 Lincoln boulevard, Kenmore, N. Y., Friday afternoon, May 27, at 2:30. Interment at Elmlawn cemetery.

• Last Edited: 28 Jun 2013