City Directories and History: McCants – Leitner Home – This lovely old home was constructed originally by Hargrove Glenn and is commonly referred to as the Leitner home in 2013. According to the historic survey information, William Jefferson purchased the property in 1898.
Family member Ben Hornsby contributed the following: “While the construction date of this up county farm house is not known, it is believed to date from the !820’s. On the Fairfield District map of !820, surveyed by John Allen Tharp and improved for the Mills Atlas of 1825, the location is marked by the name McCants. It is believed to have been the home of James McCants and his wife, Mary Ann Turnipseed. They were the parents of thirteen children who were born in this house. The house was inherited by their daughter, Pamela, who married Hargrove A. Glenn. He was the son of Arthur Hargrove Glenn and the great grandson of Arthur Hargrove , one of the first settlers of Newberry who lived near Pomaria. After the death of her husband, Pamela McCants Glenn moved to Columbia. On October 25 1897, William Jefferson Leitner purchased the
property consisting of the house and 434 acres of land from the Glenn heirs in the Fairfield Court of Common Pleas for $2,900. William J. Leitner was a distant cousin of Pamela McCants through the Turnipseed line. On January 13, 1898, he married his distant cousin Mary Sue Lever, who was the daughter of Dr. John Daniel Fletcher Lever and his wife Nancy Lucretia Ruff Lever of Cedar Creek. The Leitners were the parents of ten children. They were William Walker Leitner who married Agnes Irene Lewis; John Wesley Leitner who married Emma Katherine McKeown; Silas Fred Leitner who married Ethel Lorene Mann; Nannie Sue Leitner who married James Clark Watson; Alberta Leitner who married Leon Senn Mann; Esther Leitner who married Benjamin Franklin Hornsby; Florence Leitner who married Paul Van Buren House. Two sons, Christian Elias Leitner and Fletcher Elliott Leitner, died at a very early age. William Jefferson Leitner was a successful farmer and increased his land holdings to more than 1500 acres of land. Tenant farmers lived on the farm and some of them were the Trapps, the Burrells, and the Ashfords. At the height of the farming operatin, there were a number of buildings essential for a successful farming operation. Among them were a mule barn, a cow barn, gear house, silo, gin house, an oil house, and various poultry houses. After the death of William J. Leitner, the house was inherited by his daughter Alberta Leitner Mann. Upon her death, the house passed to Roland Leitner Hornsby; it is now owned by his sons, Roland Leitner Hornsby, Jr. and Kenneth Jordan Hornsby.” – 1.27.14
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