William Franklin PEAKE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1850, Living with parents in Rockford, Winnebago Co., Illinois
• Census: 1870, Living in Harvard, McHenry Co., Illinois
• Occupation: 1870; Harness Maker
• Census: 1880, Living in Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., Tennessee
• Occupation: 1880; Truck manufactor

William married Jessie MCKAY on 13 Apr 1864 in Rockford, Winnebago Co., Illinois. Jessie was born on 24 Aug 1843 in New Brunswick, Prince Edwards Island, Canada; died on 12 Aug 1939 in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Gracie Peake
• Birth: Abt 1874, Michigan, USA
• Census: 1880, Living with parents in Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., Tennessee

Notes:

William and Jessie had no children of their own, they did raise (from about age two) Mary Grace (called "Grace" Weatherby, one of the children of Jessie's sister Jane (Mrs. William Levi DaielWeatherby) who died about 1875. The Peakes took Grace into their home in Rockford, Illinois, and she lived with them thereafter. Grace Weatherby (sometimes called Peake though she never oficially asumed that name) was born Jun 26, 1873 in Battle Creek, Michigan, and died 28, September 1960 in Atlanta, Georgia. She attended the University of Chattanooga and taught school in Chattanooga. She married 18 April 1900 in Chattanooga to Fredrick Lorenzo Russell (born 4 May 1871, died 17 Februay 1934). The Russells lived in Chattanooga until about 1915 when they moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where (widowed) Jessie Peake lived with them in later years. The children of Fredrick and Grace Russell - Fredrick Lorenzo Russell and William Peake Russell - thought of William and Jessie as their grandparents.

After she was grown, Grace's sister Janie Weatherby (born 23 August 1870 in Ridgeway, Michigan) also lived for a time with the Peakes in Chattanooga. The worked for the Chattanooga times and later for the American Lava Company. She maried Joseph Lee Morrison.

The Peak/Peake Family

Mary married Fredrick Lorenzo RUSSELL on 18 Apr 1900 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Fredrick was born in May 1871; died on 17 Feb 1934. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]