During the legal battle to keep the Leslie railroad station open, a list of witnesses giving depositions was given to the court. It was filed in Polk County, Iowa, on December 11, 1890. All these people were residents of Knox township living near Leslie. This information is especially pertinent due to the destruction of the 1890 federal census records.
NAME |
AGE |
ACRES |
RESIDENCE |
| Benjamin Arnold | 55 | 160 | 2 miles from Leslie |
| Allen Tompkins | 24 | 140 | 5 .5 miles from Leslie |
| Charles Johnson | 63 | 140 | Living 1 mile from Leslie |
| Daniel Hedge | 55 | 90 | Living 1 miles and 3/4 from Leslie |
| C.R. Yates | 36 | 500 | Living a quarter of a mile from Leslie |
| Jefferson Elliott | 42 | 40 | Two miles from Leslie |
| William Corr | 63 | Two miles from Leslie | |
| J.J. Arnold | 67 | 160 | One mile and a quarter from Leslie |
| W.G. Otis | 62 | 55 | 5 miles nw of Leslie |
| Oscar Yates | 41 | 40 | one-fourth miles from Leslie |
| J.W. Thurlow | 58 | 214 | 3.5 miles from Leslie |
| Press Mitchell | 35 | 120 | three-quarter mile from Leslie |
| J.L. Reish | 30 | 125 | 2 miles from Leslie |
| J.M. Duncan | 36 | 120 | 3.5 miles from Leslie |
| J.H. Yates | 43 | 80 | 2.5 miles from Leslie |
| Samuel Reish | 64 | 260 | 1.5 miles from Leslie |
| T.J. Lewis | 61 | 120 | 3.5 miles from Leslie |
| J.W. Tabler | 56 | 100 | 2 and a quarter miles from Leslie |
| William Ford | 66 | 360 | 4 miles from Leslie |
NAME |
AGE |
ACRES |
RESIDENCE |
| G.K. Binkard | 41 | 3 and a quarter miles from Leslie | |
| S.M. Thurlow | 32 | 90 | 2 .5 miles from Leslie |
| Aaron Lewis | 58 | 80 | 2 and a quarter miles from Leslie |
| Jonas Hunt | 53 | 100 | 5 miles from Leslie |
| L.B. Freeman | 72 | 90 | 2 .5 miles from Leslie |
| W.S. Luce | 49 | 270 | 1 mile from Leslie |
| Robert Pitt | 62 | 120 | 1.5 miles from Leslie |
| S.J. Linder | 26 | 120 | 3.5 miles from Leslie |
| James A. Wade | 45 | 330 | 3 miles from Leslie |
| J.A. Tabler | 58 | 140 | 2 miles from Leslie |
| E. Tompkins | 68 | 138 | 5 miles from Leslie |
| G. Coffey | 58 | 80 | one-half mile from Leslie |
| C.M. Roberts | 20 | 80 | 3 miles from Leslie |
| S.L. Crew | 26 | 1 and three-quarters miles from Leslie | |
| Jacob Miller | 61 | 85 | 4 and a quarter miles from Leslie |
| Charles L. Johnson | 29 | 87 | 1.5 miles from Leslie |
| G.W. Crew | 32 | 1.5 miles from Leslie | |
| Jasper Beeman | 37 | 1 and three-quarters miles from Leslie | |
| E.M. Lane | 28 | 1 and a quarter miles from Leslie | |
| Leonard Yates | 40 | 40 | three quarter miles from Leslie |
| I.I. Chamberlain | 50 | 153 | 3 miles from Leslie |