On 1 June 1870 Henry Lee, 4, lived with his parents and four siblings in Carroltown, Kentucky.2152On 1 June 1880 Lee, 13, lived with his parents and four siblings on a farm in Franklin, Iowa. He attended school. 2151On 1 June 1900 Lee Van Cleave, 33, born in Kentucky lived with his first wife of 2 years, Bessie Van Cleave, 31, at the house of his mother Eliza at 3153 Forest Avenne, Chicago, Illinois.2150 They had no children. On 1 June 1905 H. L. Vancleave, 38, born in Kentucky was a farmer in Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin. Both his parents had been born in England, and he lived with Bessie, 36, born in Iowa, Reed S., 15, born in New York, and Bessie, 13, born in Iowa. 2149 On 18 September 1907 Henry Lee Van Cleave, 41, married his second wife, Vesta Meader Shanks, 38 in Chicago, Illinois. 2154On 15 April 1910 Henry R. Van Cleave, a 43 year old photographer, lived in a house he owned, without a mortgage, in the Township of Bayfield, Wisconsin with his second wife, Augusta , 40, born in Indiana, Paul, 13, a stepson from a first marriage, and Nathan L., newborn in Wisconsin. Henry and Augusta had been married for 3 years and had 2 children, with only Nathan still alive. Henry had 3 children with his first wife, Bessie, including Paul, now 13. Henry’s parents had both been born in Kentucky. 2145 On 1 January 1920 Henry L. Van Cleave, 51, lived in a house he rented at 271 Second Avenue West, Cedar Rapids, Iowa with Vesta M., 50, and Nathan L. Van Cleave, 9. Paul who would be age 23 no longer lived with the family. Henry was a studio photographer and Vesta was the studio manager. 2148 On 1 June 1925 Henry L. Van Cleave, 58, Vesta M. Van Cleave, 54, and Nathan L. Van Cleave, 14, lived in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 2155On 1 April 1930 Henry L. Van Cleave, 63, born in Kentucky lived in Bertram, Iowa with Vesta M., 60, and Nathan L., 19. The house they owned was worth $6000. Henry was an artist and photographer. Henry was 26 and Vesta 23 when they married.2147 On 1 April 1940 Henry L. Van Cleave, a 73 year old retiree lived in a house he owned worth $2500 at R.D. Route 3, Bertram, Iowa. He had an eighth grade education, and lived with Vesta M. Van Cleave, 70. They had lived in the same house in 1935. 2146 Henry died in Monterey City or County, California on 17 May 1946448

Both Henry and Augusta had been married once before they married. She was 40, born in Indiana, and the birthplace of her parents was unknown. 2145 On 18 September 1907 Vesta Meader Shanks, 38, and Henry Lee Van Cleave, 41, were married in Chicago, Illinois.2154Vesta’s parents had both been born in Maine.2147In 1935 and on 1 April 1940 Vesta, age 70, lived with Henry in Bertram, Iowa. No children lived with them. Vesta had an eighth grade education. 2146 Vesta died in 1956 and was buried next to Henry in Salinas, California. 448 Between 1946 and 1949 Vesta Van Cleave, widow of H. L. Van Cleave, has moved to Salinas, California and lived with Paul T. and Jennie Van Cleave at 202 Harvest Street. 2158 She lived at 11459 Collins Street, Van Nuys, California when she died age 86 on 25 November 1956. She was survived by her son, Nathan L. Van Cleave.

On 1 June 1900, Bessie, 31, born in Indiana, lived with her husband of two years, Lee Van Cleave, 33, at the home of his mother Eliza Van Cleave, a 68 year old widow at 3153 Forest Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. They had no children. Bessie’s parents had both been born in Ohio. 2150 On 1 June 1905 H. L. Vancleave, 38, his wife Bessie Vancleave, 36, born in Iowa, and Reed S. Vancleave 15 and Bessie Vancleave, 13 lived in Gordon, Douglas County, Wisconsin.2149