| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fourth Generation195. Leland Monroe Driggs was born on 27 March 1871 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. He lived in Haden, Fremont, Idaho in 1900.17 He died on 26 February 1926 in Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA. Leland has Ancestral File Number 18QN-49. Leland and Annie settled in Driggs, Idaho about 1890. They built their own log cabin on the flats where seven children were born to them. Later their cabin became a boarding house with such names as Maude Adams and her mother, Nick Wilson, some fur trappers and even one or two outlaws stayed there. Leland was active in plays put on by the L.D.S. church. He drove the mail wagon from Idaho Falls to Driggs. Cold winters he helped families stay on at this pioneer town by giving them flour, potatoes, and sugar to see them through. He moved in 1919 back to Pleasant Grove, his birthplace, then in 1921 to Venice, California, where he died in 1926. Leland's father, Benjamin Driggs, Sr. and his family led a true pioneer life, colorful and romantic even to his sons pioneering and settling a town at the only place left to pioneer - Driggs, Idaho. Leland Monroe Driggs and Annie Louisa Beers were married on 23 December 1893 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. Annie Louisa Beers was born on 22 December 1871 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, USA. She lived in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah in 1880.18 She died on 3 July 1943 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA. Annie has Ancestral File Number 3T9F-V1. She was buried in Vall Haley Cem., Burbank, California.6 The 1920 Utah Census lists Annie as head of household. Her husband, who died six years after this census was taken, was not listed. Children listed were: Helen, Elizabeth, Olivia, Milton and Mary (no Afton or Leland). The 1920 Utah Census lists Annie as head of household. Her husband, who died six years after this census was taken, was not listed. Children listed were: Helen, Elizabeth, Olivia, Milton and Mary (no Afton or Leland). Leland Monroe Driggs and Annie Louisa Beers had the following children:
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