Mini-Bios for CAMPBELLs, LUGGs, & BLACKWELLs of Nelson, PA

Leah TUBBS Deats (1884 - 1965)

Leah J. Tubbs was born May 27, 1884, in Oseola., Tioga Co., PA; d. 1965. On Jan. 14, 1904 she married Claude Clyde Deats [pronounced "dates"]. He was born Oct. 7, 1883, in Lawrence Twp., Tioga Co., PA; d. Feb. 1976 in Elkland, Tioga Co., PA. Claude's parents were Theodore V. Deats, born 1852 in PA, and Elizabeth Harriet Croffut, born 1852 in Canandaigua, NY.

Leah was the 3rd of 7 children of Frank P. Tubbs, b. 1853 in Osceola, Tioga Co., PA, d. there 1900; and Kate Ouderkirk, born 1853 in Farmington Twp., Tioga Co., PA, died 1926 in Geneva, NY.

Clyde's brother, John Floyd Deats (1882 - 1965), married Leah's sister, Dianthe Rennie Tubbs (1885 - 1970).

Clyde and Leah Tubbs Deats had four children:

1. Elua Deats, b. Oct. 16, 1904 in PA, m. Cassius Kizer and Frank Russell Root;
2. Iva L. Deats, b. Apr. 10, 1907 in Farmington Twp., m. J. Kydon Sayre;
3. Ruby E. Deats, b. Apr. 4, 1909 in PA, m. Henry Lowery, Floyd Lunger and Walter Hunt; and
4. Adopted daughter Helen Marie Lowery, m. Donald P. Wilcox.

[wbt - 10/31/2000; last rev. 12/5/2017]