Leland Alanson BENTLEY

                   BIRTH:1870 Federal Census Lester Twp., Blackhawk, IA GSF# 545,876;
MARR:
DEATH:Headstone;
BURIAL:Headstone Lot 100 Page 40 Buchanan Cemetaries 1980, Buried with father
and mother;
                  

                   BIRTH:1880 Federal Census Lester Twp., Blackhawk, IA GSF#1,254,327;
MARR:Book 9 # 156,Buchanan County, IA;
DEATH:GSF# 1,530,455 Buchanan Genealogy cemetary and obits;Headstone:
BURIAL:Buchanan County Cemetary Book 1980 Lot 343-AL p.72;

Other Sources:

Old age assistance tax 1934-1936 Blackhawk co.,IA fhl# 1,570,900
Bentley, Irvin C.  male white
B  17 July 1870  No place of birth given
Father  Leland A. Bentley  Mother Mary Dewald
Living 326 Lester 1934,35,36.

1910 Federal Census East Waterloo Twp.,Blackhawk,IA GSF# 1,374,405 gives name
as Irvin Edward and he is living with his second wife Fannie Hitt;
1920 Federal Census Waterloo,Blackhawk,Ia GSF# 1,820,478;

GSF# 1,548,426 Divorces Blackhawk Co.,IA  Divorced from Fannie Oct 1926 # D-568
Cruelty  divorce granted to wife.

Other family members buried on the same cem. lot.  Son Leroy and his wife Ida
Stremke.  Also Roger D. Bentley son of Leroy and Ida Bentley. Obit of Leroy
lists another stepmother Mrs Clarence Leggett so Irven probably married a
third time.

There is also an Ida Philoma Johnson Bentley - Need to check under Johnson in
the obit records on film # 1,530,455;Need to check to see if there is a
relationship?
                  

                   BIRTH:Old age assistanace tax Blackhawk Co.,IA;
MARR:Bk Y 200 Blackhawk County,IA;
DEATH:Headstone;
BURIAL:Headstone;Buried with his father and mother L.A.and Mary Bentley Lot
#115 p.45;

Irven E. Bentley and Fannie Bentley were witnesses at the marriage of George
and Lydia.

Other Sources:
Old age assistance tax 1934,1936  fhl#1,570,900
Bentley,George Henry  male white
b. Fairbank  30 Oct 1872
Father Leland Bentley  Mother Mary Donald
Living Lester 1934,35,36.

1880 federal census Lester Twp.,Blackhawk,IA fhl# 1,254,327;
1920 Federal Census Waterloo,Blackhawk,Ia Soundex;
1925 state census Lester,Blackhawk,IA fhl# 1,420,216;
                  

                   BIRTH:1880 Federal Census Lester Twp., Blackhawk, IA GSF#1,254,327;
MARR:Cert #T-86 Blackhawk County,IA;
DEATH:#4714 p.145 Blackhawk Co.,Ia:
BURIED:Death cert #4714 p.145 Blackhawk Co.,IA;

1910 Federal Census Lester Twp., Blackhawk, IA GSF# 1,374,405; Arthur and wife
Nora and child Carl W are living with Arthur's father in Lester Twp., Blackhawk,
IA;

1,034,572 item 5 ,Black Hawk, Iowa Deaths
Arthur G. Bentley d. Lester  b. Feb, 22 1875 Iowa md F. Leland Bentley b. NY
m. Mary E. Dewald   Died Oct 17, 1910 of a brain concussion
Buried  19 Oct 1910 in the Fairbank Cem. Informant Leland Bentley

Unable to locate Arthur in a cemetary.  No headstone with Nora in Fairbank
Cem. but death cert said buried in Fairbank Cem.
Nora appears to have remarried to Arthur Alcott as
Carl W. Bentley is referred to as a stepson in the 1920 census in Oran Twp.
Carl's obit doesn't mention a brother or a half brother surviving him or
preceeding him in death.
                  

                   BIRTH:1900 Federal Census Lester Twp.,Blackhawk,IA;Headstone;
MARR:Book P #373 Blackhawk County, IA;
DEATH:Headstone;Death cert. Blackhawk County,IA #263;Died Lester or Dunkerton;
BURIAL:Headstone;Buchanan County Cemetaries 1980 Lot 67 page 44;

Second name Estella on birth record of son Walter;

Other Sources:
1880 Federal Census Lester Twp.,Blackhawk,IA GSF# 1,254,327;
1900 Federal Census Lester Twp.,Blackhawk,IA GSF# 1,240,418;
1910 Federal Census Lester Twp.,Blackhawk,IA GSF# 1,374,405;
1920 Federal Census Lester Twp.,Blackhawk,IA GSF# 1,820,478;
                  

                   BIRTH:1885 State Census Lester Twp., Blackhawk, IA GSF#1,021,442;
DEATH:Headstone Lot 100 Fairbank,Buchanan, IA;
BURIAL:Headstone Lot 100 Fairbank, Buchanan, IA;