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Leach, Elizabeth Ann (Galway)
Plot: 35-1-S

b. 1860-Dec-11, Prescott, ON
d. 1940-Feb-24, Empress, AB

Grave Markers: Horizontal ground level stone
Cover: Gravel, concrete border
Level?: Y
Note: Headstone has different year of birth from Alberta Death Register Index and other records.

Empress area Cemeteries Tree on Ancestry.ca
     https://www.ancestry.ca/family-tree/person/tree/201433125/person/332738327977
Find a Grave
     https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/204584294
Alberta Death Register #401-306
     https://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/sites/default/files/2018-11/deaths-l-1940-1944.pdf

Available here 

Leach, Elizabeth+Billy, Empress Express, 1926-03-04, Page 8.jpg

Grave Photos 

35-1-S Leach, Elizabeth d.1940, Headstone, 2025-08-27.jpg
35-1-S+N Leach, Elizabeth+Zachariah, Whole grave, 2025-08-27.jpg
35-1,2,3 Leach, Elizabeth + Zachariah + Baby May + May + Robinson, Essie + Leach, Oliver M., Whole graves looking NW, 2025-08-27.jpg
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Father: John Galway (1815-?)
Mother: Susan (1838-?)

Spouse: Zachariah Leach (1864-1933), Find a Grave:204584308
Children:
     George Adam Leach (1885–1926), Find a Grave:206923456
     Chester John Leach (1887–1952), Find a Grave:194732065
     Ambrose Leach (1888–1963), Find a Grave:99868343
     Oliver MILTON Leach Sr. (1891–1970), Find a Grave:204584103
     James Roy Leach (1893–1946
     Martha MAY Leach. (1896–1913), Find a Grave:204584278
     Essie Florence (Leach) Robinson (1898–1919), Find a Grave:204584272
     William Ernest Alonzo "Billy" Leach (1903-1981), Find a Grave:99868347

Summary
1860-Dec-11: Elizabeth was born to John & Susan Galway in Prescott, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
1861-Jan-14: Canada Census with parents & brother Edward in Prescott, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
1871-Apr-02: Canada Census with brothers Edmon & William Edward, in the home of David & Susan Hopkins in Merrickville, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.  Susan Hopkins may have been their mother, remarried.
1884-Jul-22: Elizabeth married Zachariah Leach at at Wolford, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
1891-Apr-24: Canada Census with husband & 4 sons at Kemptville, Leeds and Grenville North, Ontario, Canada.
1901-Apr-15: Canada Census with husband, 7 children, and brother Edward Galway at Kemptville, Leeds and Grenville North, Ontario, Canada.
1921-Jun: Husband Zachariah entered the Mental Hospital.
1926-Mar-04: From The Empress Express newspaper: "Billy Leach and his mother, Mrs. Z. Leach, moved out to their farm at Mayfield, this morning."
1926-Jun-01: Canada Census with son William in the same house, yet he is at NW-36-24-29-W3 and she is at W½-21-24-29-W3.  Strange.  Her husband, Zachariah, was a patient in the Weyburn Mental Hospital, Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1931-Jun-01: Canada Census alone at E½-21-24-29-W3, 1.2 km southwest of Mayfield Cemetery, 11.6 km north of Empress, Alberta.  Her son William & his wife Margaret were nearby at N-15-24-29-W3.  Her husband, Zachariah, was a patient in the Weyburn Mental Hospital, Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada.
1933: Husband Zachariah died in Saskatchewan, Canada.
1940-Feb-24: Elizabeth died at Empress, Alberta, Canada.  Alberta Death Register #401-306.

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Bruce A. Johnson - Empress, Alberta, Canada.
Last Updated: 2026-Apr-11       Go to Mayfield Cemetery page