The last record I find of my 2d Great-Grandmother is January 28, 1893. "Mrs. Hannah Leeper" sold 126+ acres of land to "D. P. Cowsert" in Kimble County, Texas.
To my knowledge, no one alive today knows when my immigrant ancestor died or where she is buried. Until a later source is found, I can only point to early 1893 as Hannah's "last known alive" date.
Her name pops up in papers all over Texas because of bounty land left to her when widowed in 1855. Land that Texas had awarded her husband Sam Leeper for having fought at San Jacinto and Bexar during the Texas Revolution. (Yay, Sam!).
Survey records of these original grantees, Sam or Hannah Leeper, can be found in old Texas newspapers. Today I found another mention of my Hannah.
This has got to be my favorite misspelling of her name: "Honey Leaper."
Fellow Wiser family historians will see other familiar surnames: Speights, Weaver, Moor, Frezia, Hankamer, Barrow, and Abshier in this article from The Baytown News, Wed., 5 June 1957, Baytown, Chambers County,Texas, page 3, via The Portal To Texas History at URL: https://texashistory.unt.edu/
If you find mention of our Hannah with the surname Leaper, Leiper, Leeper or as "Honey," please share, won't you?
November 2022 UPDATE:
1. From The Baytown Sun, page 10, Monday, February 4, 1963 in Baytown, Harris County, Texas:
2. This one from the same paper on January 28, 1960, page 12:
3. Lastly, from February 4, 1965, page 9, The Baytown Sun paper:
