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MCNAMEE James Leo
Birth:          31 Jan 1885 Martinsburg, Becgkere Co, W. Va.
Death:          12 Feb 1947 Kanawha Co., W. Va.
Burial:         14 Feb 1947 Sunset Memorial Park, Kanawha Co., W. Va.

Notes
1900 in Pultney, Belmont Co., Ohio steel works laborer
1910 in Bellaire, Ohio as Leo with mother and wife and son as Leo cannot read occ 
appears to be enamel works
1920 1930 cannot find
per owt Bruen Family Tree 1920 in Akron Ward 7, Summit Co., Ohio
WVa Deaths on familysearchlabs.org, married, dept head at Chemical Plant, gives 
father's name as John (it's James)
ww2 draft reg, 708 Jefferson St., South Charleston, Kanawha Co., W.Va., empl by 
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals.
ancestry message from Grace Bruen 29 Oct 2010: per autobiography of Raymond 
Wilson McNamee, James Leo was a "renegade Roman Catholic who finished highs 
school. Never saw his paternal grandfather but knew Maggie. Had a number of jobs: 
as a "boy" in a brewery and glass blowing shop in Bellaire, then in Akron Ohio building 
tires at BF Goodrich for 25cents/hour. After 25 years he resigned and opened a 
grocery store, lost it and house during depression, then went to work at Union Carbide 
where son worked. Was janitor and moved up to other maintenance projects. 
W Va Births on familysearch
findagrave states he was the department head of a chemical plant at the time of his 
death. No other McNamees listed as buried in Sunset Memorial Park


Parents
MCNAMEE James Albert (1858 - )
MAULE Margaret Ellen ("Maggie") (6 Jun 1862 - 26 Oct 1928)

Siblings
MCNAMEE Anna (4 Dec 1880 - 24 Sep 1901)
MCNAMEE John William (18 Apr 1882 - 23 Feb 1929)
MCNAMEE James Leo (31 Jan 1885 - 12 Feb 1947)

Marriage To WEISNER Anna Margaret (21 Mar 1888 - 26 Nov 1980) m. 1907 Notes Parents WEISNER W. F. () BRADY Margarette Ann () Children by WEISNER Anna Margaret 21 Mar 1888 - 26 Nov 1980
MCNAMEE Raymond Wilson (27 Nov 1907 - 4 Jan 2000)
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