Individual Details

Rosa Belle Blankenship was born July 13, 1870, and was the daughter of George W. Blankenship and Hannah Moles Blankenship. Her mother's parents came to Pike county, Kentucky, from Illinois, during the Civil War. "Aunt Rose", as most people now call her, says that she has spent all but about five of her 85 years "right here on the Cowpen". She is tall and slender, and dresses much as ladies of her present age dressed in her youth. She wears a bandana over her head and an apron, even when she is away from home. She smokes a cob pipe or one of clay, and likes to tell stories of the early days.
I was told that "Aunt Rosa" is one of the favorite reconteurs of family lore. Yet, when I eagerly turned to her with the exclamation: "Aunt Rose, now you tell me all about the Leslies," she parried with a chuckled: "Oh, I don't know anything about 'em' I was married to one of 'em for nigh onto 60 years, and I didn't know know any more about him then than I did the day I married him."
My "ride" back to town came about then and I could never find an opportunity to return for a visit with her in her own log cabin home further up the creek. She lives there with one of her granddaughters, but she assured me that she could do all the work necessary. She really "misses" going up on the hill to pick up the stovewood for her cookstove since one of her daughters has given her an electric range. When she invited me back to visit her, I told her I'd try and really hoped I could, but as there was no transportation available, it might be that I could not. Aunt Rosa countered this with another chuckle and said: "I walked down there this morning, but I guess someone will take me back tonight." I, fully a score of years her junior, was properly squelched.
("Lesley-Leslie and Lesley-Leslie Supplement" by ruth Cleveland Leslie, p188)

Spouse	Robert Lee Leslie (1863 - 1945)
Child	Rosce Madison Leslie (1892 - )