When Barbara Ann Leadbetter was born on 9 April 1852, in Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine, United States, her father, John W Leadbetter, was 40 and her mother, Deborah Young, was 33. She married Chelsea Calderwood on 10 December 1874, in Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Portland Ward 4, Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1910 and Portland, Cumberland, Maine, United States in 1920. She died on 6 March 1938, in Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Browns Head Cemetery, Vinalhaven, Knox, Maine, United States.
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