Leila Horton Cooper (married name Cheney)
Born: May 7, 1886, Mt. Hope, Rockaway Township, Morris County, NJ
Died: December 2, 1975, Dover, New Jersey
Relation to Author: Great Grandmother
Father of Bruce Judson Cheney
On this date in 1975, Leila H. Cheney passed away. She was 89 years old and had been living at the Lincoln Park Nursing Home. Her cause of death is listed as heart failure due to arteriosclerotic heart disease, or a "a narrowing of the small blood vessels that supply blood and oxygen to the heart".
Although she died a little more than two years too soon to meet her first great grandson, she did have a long life. She was born when Grover Cleveland was president and died during Gerald Ford's presidency, having witnessed 15 presidencies, including such monumental ones as Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Eisenhower, LBJ, and Nixon. She lived through World War I, the depression, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam and the civil rights and women's rights movement. In fact, she was born before women were allowed to vote and was 34 when the 19th amendment was passed.
