William H Leach Senior (1740 - 1808)

Born 10 Jul 1740 in Prince Edward, Virginia

Descendants

Died 3 Sep 1808 at age 68 in Sinks Grove, Monroe, Virginia, United States

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Biography

William Leach was baptized on July 10, 1748 at St. Steven's parish, Northumberland, Va. William was the son of John and Joanna (Ellingwood) Leach.^[1]

"William Leach, a stonemason, came from Prince Edward at the close of the Revolution with his wife, Susannah Hughes. William received a land grant of 170 acres located in the sinks of Greenbrier Co., West Virginia from the Commonwealth of Virginia for one pound sterling paid into the treasury of this Commonwealth. William died in 1805. He owned slaves and left a personalty valued at $274.67."

Children of William and Susanna Leach were: Molly Leach Jones, Mathew, Joshua, William, James, Elizabeth Leach Shewmate, Ruben, John, Edward, Edmond and Esom.^[2]

Note: Will Book 1, page 94, Monroe County, West Virginia.

"In the name of God, Amen. I, William Leach of the county of Monroe being sick and weak in body but of sound mind and disposing memory, for which I thank God, and calling to mind the uncertainty of human life and being desirous to dispose of all such worldly estate as it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give and bequeath the same in manner following, that is to say: I give unto my wife Susan Leach my plantation together with the household and kitchen furniture, my negro girl called Seal, two work horses, and utensils sufficient to work said plantation, two milk cows and two yews. Those above mentioned properties I give and bequeath unto my wife during her life or widowhood; and after her decease or marriage I wish the same to be divided as follows, to wit, I give to my son Reuben Leach ten dollars, unto my son John Leach ten dollars, and after the marriage or death of my wife I wish the plantation to be equally divided between my two youngest sons William Leach and James Leach; and after the marriage or decease of my wife I wish all the moveable part of my property to be sold and the money equally divided between my children as follows: Molly Jones, Matthew Leach, Joshua Leach, Edward Leach, Edmond Leach, Easom Leach, William Leach, James Leach, and Elizabeth Shewmate, except my negro woman Nan and her I wish freed at my death, and the residue of my moveable property sold and the money divided as above stated. And lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint my son Joshua Leach and Harden Shumate executors to this my last will and testament by me heretofore made. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed by seal this 3rd day of September 1807."

William Leach signed his deed by providing his mark; the witnesses to the will were George Foster, Absolum Leach, and Jain Foster (gave her mark) The will was proved at the April 1808 Monroe Court on the motion of Joshua Leach, one of the executors, who gave bond for $2000 with John Foster, Isaac Paul, and John Lemon his security. Certified for probate by Isaac Hutchison, Monroe Co. Clerk.

Her name was given as Molly Leach when referred to in her father William Leach's will, this being a nickname for Mary. JFV

Written by Miss Nannie Campbell (Desendent) 1931. Of Interest to Leach families of Monroe County, Virginia. William Leach Senior, by Nannie Campbell, 1931.

William H. Leach, first of the name came according to Hardestys History of Monroe Co W va, from Prince Edward co Va. he was here soon after the close of the Revolution. His wife was Susannah, dau. of Reuben Hughes of Bedford Co va. Their first home was the Washington Nickell farm owned by mr. Shelton Clark in 1931 and sold to a mr. Jimmy Weikle and now owned by a mr. ..Michael. Their first house sat between the county road and the dwelling of Mr. Pack. Their children were Reuben, Esom (who married jane handley, matthew (who married p. Gullett), John, james, Joshua (who married Hannah, dau. of william and Frances Erwin Hawkins, Edward, mary ( who married Capt. james Jones, a revoluationary soldier, william (who married Jean_, and elizabeth who married hardin Shumate in 1806. Wm sr. died in 1805 on the day of the birth of his grandson, william , son of Joshua and lies buried in the Lynch graveyard, 2 1/2 miles NE of Union on the Hillsdale road. he was a stovemason by trade. A piece of his work still standing is the chimney at the west side of the CE Lynch house, NE of Union. After his death his widow and some of the children moved to Kentucky and were soon lost sight of. Reuben lived at the homeplace, Joshua bought the farm once owned by AJ leach, from a family named Sullivan and lived and died and is buried there by the side of his wife in the old orchard above the barn. mary and james Jones lived and reared a large family, where Judge CW Campbell owned at Pickaway. Capt. jOnes kept a toll gate there. The shumates lived on the MOnroe side of New River at the old ford, near Peterstown. Williams sister, Mary married Alexander Clark in 1796 and their home was at the place now known as Indian Mills formerly in Monroe co but now in Summer co. Another sister names Susan, married Isaac Foster and lived on the land which they bought off patrick Boyds farm near his home, inclued in the jack Nickell farm owned by Floyd body. A sister names Phoebe married james Moss, the first settler in Monroe Co. His home being the Sweet springs property. The couple together with their sons, Henry and George, are buried on the Sayer farm, where they died, near Sweet springs. They had a dau. who became the andestress of the Cowan family. At one time Henry lived at the farm, where Mr. James Rowan owned near Gap Mills. His 3rd wife , a Mrs. Tuckweller of Greenbrier co lies buried under a tree inthe old cemetary in Lewisburg. Alex. Clark belonged to the Clark connection which has always lived about Union, and was born somewhere in the neighborhood of Union, probably about 1770. He married mary in 1796. Their son Rufus, ws born in Indian Mills, about dec. 13 1812. He married mary Foyd. There were 11 other children of whom I know nothing. Mrs. William Prince, at Prince Sation in Fayette co is a descendant of one of them. The late Judge HC Mc Whorten of Lewisburg,married a dau. of Rufus. The Snuffers and Hults, at Berkley belong to this connection. Alexander was a follower of Capt. Audley Paul, the Indian fighter and took part in the despaerate encounter with the savages, the date of which is not known at the mouthof Indian creek in which a Mrs. Gwinn was recapatured from the Indians and returned to her home. The above is from Judge james Miller's history of Summer Co formerly a part of Monroe. Isaac Foster and his wife susan leach, had a son names Isaac, who married Esther , daughter of Patrick Boyd. ( i think who was married twice) and had 2 families, foster and Drummond. Tothe latter family belonged my great aunt in law, (Lucy Grays grandmother) , Ann Priscella drummond, wife of Edmuch Leach. Joshua and Hannah Hawkins Leach, were married in 1798 had the following children: Nathanaiel bn 1791?, who married Arianna Kerr, a niece of Mrs. Ingebo Pepper of Peppersville Va, and was a aunt of the late Mr. Stephen Ruddell, whom she reared in her house at Gap Mills. nathaniel lived some years at Salt Sulphur springs, and moved to Dayton Ohio, where he died and was buried. His descendants are in and around Dayton yet. James (2) bn 1801 who married 1st Anne Davis Prentice in 1832 and 2nd married Mrs. Margaret (peggy) Hill, dau. of Patrick Boyd and widow of martin Hill. Annes one son was named George bn 1833. He lvied a single life and died in 1892,.Margarets one son was james harvey bn 1841 , whomarried Florence johnson, of Gilman co W. va. Margaret was born march 17 1797. margaret and martin Hill lived at the windell farm near lebanon church and she and james Leach in the old house part of which is still standing and is occupied by Tiffany negros. A short distance NE of the home of William A Gray. James died in 1869 , feb. 10. He aws insane for a number of years before and at the his death. Margaret Hills children were, Spencer, William, Hunter and Malvina. (3) Alexander Leach born 1803 died 1860, married Isabelle Maxwell Neel, dau of Owen Neel and Isabel Maxwell of Gap Mills. He wasa black smith by trade. he built and lived in the first house in Rocky Point., now sinks grove. the old Burwell hotel which stood on the high hill where the roads fork, at the southern extrance to the village. He built that house about the year 1840 when my mother, who was his dau. was 3 year olds. In 1844 Isabel died leaving 5 children;" Indiana, Edmund, Abner, Eliza and Preston. Within a year, Alexander married His second wife, Nancy martin of Lychburg va. and built and moved into the first house on the east side of the street after entering the village , past the rocky point. within another year, the second sife died, leaving one dau, Amanda Frances, two weeks old. The child was taken at the age of a fewmonths to her mothers sister a Mrs. Paulette of Lynchburg where she died at about the age of 3 years. Alexander died of ****** aero??/ on March 27 1860. His children married as follows; Indiana married Allen Campbell, Eliza married AN Campbell, Edmund married Mary jane Lemons, Abner to Francis Hull, Preston to Eliza Parke ( in texas. Indiana lived and died in Missouri. (5) william married mary )Polly) Young and lived and died on the Knobs NE of Union. Their children where hannah , who died when about grown), of a hemmorage of the nose. Susan who marreid John McCoy, Cornelius who married Amana Swope,, Andrew Young who married Sarah Irons. All the members of this family sellp under the sod of Green Hill Cem. at Union, and Joshua;s one dau Amanda malvina, whonever married rests near them. Her nephew, Andrew Young had her remains taken out of the their first restingplace and reintered near by, becuase he wanted her first plot for his self. Edmund and hsi wife, Ann Priscella Drummond, lived and reared thier family in the Joshua leach home at the foot of Bicketts Knob later owner by AJ leach. Their children were ; amanda, Joshua B., james Wellington, william Henderson, robert Houston, and Chapman. Robert wilson married Susan Young, sister fo Williams wife mary. They lived first on a part of the Joshua home place, a hugh hill to the south of the home, and later at the Morgan Place at the Crimson Springs. Their children were Joshua, who married Eliza. bickett, Addison married Mary Jane Hawkins, Newton married Lucy Penick, James married Pendlton Bobbit, elizabeth marreied John MacClung, alice married William bobbitt, and Caroline married George Boyd. Joshua was killed in the battle of Lewisburg, May 22 1862. addison ws billed by a horse in 1892. All of the other died sudden deaths. Newton died after an illness, but he died suddenly also. (6) Andrew married mary Dunsmore. Lived for awhile near the fathers homeplace and afterwards on flat Mtn. He died in Texas in teh home of his son william and ws buried there. His chidlren, Mrs. Angeline Still, Mrs. Sarah Voss(Vass)/ , Mrs eliza Upton, Willaim and John. William Leach I, was accompanied toMonroe by a relative names Leach Mann, who soon went on to Kty. Monroe was then part of Greenbier and he was accompanied by families names Gullett, Egnor and fuller, all of whom have long since dissappeared from the county. The Gulletts settled on the land now owned by Anderson andjames heirs..Their dwelling, which is gone, years ago being in the field opposite James Shraders house. Where Andersons house was, now stands , was formerly a thick woods always known as the Gullett Woods. Whether these folks and the Leaches were related or not, I do notknow. I used to hear an anecdote illustrative of Capt. james jones;s very precise way of expressing himself in conversation: Early one morning he went around to the home of his neighbors (my great-grandfather) Robert Campbell. Declining to have breakfast with the family, he took a seat by the dining room fire and all joined in conversation. some one said, Capt is there anynews in the neighborhood this morning?. He relpied..Nothing new or startling, my son Uriah having traversed the western countries all around, returned last evening ot his fathers kitchen. The children of Capt. and mary lech Jones are: William bn 1782, Samual bn 1784, John bn 1787, Uriah bn 1793, Susannah bn 1797, james bn 1800, Francis bn 1802, nancy bn 1803, Elizabeth bn 1795(died 1832) (7) Mrs. Jones died in the home of my grandfather, Alex. Leach in Rocky Point. She was found dead in bed. Of the family of elizabeth and Hardin Shumate, I know very little of. The Shumates are said to be French by descent. Folison the first to come to Monroe co from giles co va. was a first Ltn. in the first military co. formed in the Co. His son Daniel, was the father of hardin . Hardens sons were Edmund, Washington, Daniel, Hendley, william and Hearden. Edmund and Hendley who married a sister of the late Sam;l Y. Simms reared their families in Giles .Co. Kendley or Hendley, was clerk of the Greenbrier Baptist Assoc. for exactly 50 years. His oldest dau. married very young and wentto Ohio to live. As they were coming back toMonroe co, with one child on a visit they were exposed to small pox which they contracted and all three with 3 of the children at home died. Hendely neighbors made graves, procured caskets, and assisted him in burying his children. As no minister came to his assistance, he conducted the religious service himself for each one. When my mother was youngk she spent much time in her great aunts Elizabeths home and was fond of the family. The Leaches have not as a general thing taken to books or education. But there have been some noteble exceptions to the rule, . Minington (?). son of Andrew Y.Leach, and his cousin AE Mccoy graduated from the Normal School in Lebanon.Ohio. and were for years among the first public school teachers in Monroe Co. Minington died in 1900 while principal in the town of Monroe in Union co GA. . Elmer, son of Cornelius, is a first class engineer. He live sin Pittsburg pa. Cornelius ,a disappointed office seeker and his sons elmer and Arthur, are on the only Leaches who have ever voted in the Repulican ticket. A noteable characteristic of the last 3 o4 4 generations of Joshuas branch of the tribe has been expectional memories which is attributed to their hawkins blood from Joshuas wife, Hannah. Hannah was born July 4 , 1776, and was first names Independence, which was later changed to Hannah for her grandmother, Hannah Harper Hawkins. She changed the name herself as she did not care for Independence as a name. Hannah;s father , willliam Hawkins, born Phildelphoa 1743, son of james and Hannah Harper Hawkins, who came from england with the Quaker immigration. Joshua Brownlee , oldest son of Edmund and Ann Priscella drummond Leach, owned the home place all his life. Joshua Brownlee Leach , father of Mrs. Lucy Gray at age of 18 inlisted in the confederate Army and served in the 17th Virginia Cavalry, a soldier valiant and faithful. In 1864 he paid the full measure of this devotion to the southern cause as a prisoner of War. When he returned home after Appomattox, his father had died and it was his privilege to care for his mother the rest of her life. he married mary Margaret Hanna of Greenbier Co, who died in 1888 leaving three samll girls. How Mrs. lucy Gray, wife of Mr. RP Gray, a presbysterian minister. Mrs. Stuart Arbuckle and Mrs. JA Lee. In 1893 he married again to Mary Beard of Pochahontas Co. who survivied him with 2 dau, Mrs. Stuart Brinkley and Mrs. Ella (Percy) Dudley. Joshua Brownlee Leach died nov 14 1923 and is buried in Mt Pleasant Cem. Generation Chart at end of letter: William Leach from Prince Edward Co va. ,married Susanna Hughes of Bedford co Va. Children as: Esom, John, Joshua *, Rueben. Joshua and Hannah Hawkins: Andrew, James *, Robert, William, Edmund, Nathaniel, Alexander, Amanda. James* married Ann Davis Prentice 1832. George born 1833, died 1892. James married 2nd to Mrs. Margaret (Peggy) widow of Martin Hill. son James harvey* born 1842 married Florence Johnson of Gilmer Co W .va. James Harvey and Florence children: Gordon, Bert, Homer, Maggie, Arthur, Cora, Asby, Evertte, Grady. Bert married May Elizabeth Bobbit 1906. children: Mary marshall, Ada sue, Harvey, and Virginia L. Mary marshall married William Marshall Ellison 6-18-1932. Children: Caroll Lee Eillison bn 11-12-1933 Carol Lee Ellison married Russell Vernon Kittle 7-24-1954. children; Douglas Dale Kittle, William russell Kittle 1958, twins Adrienne Lee and Diana Lynn born 11-25-1967

Birth

Birth:

User ID: 7241D590-EF34-4EF0-9555-47C851C6B2C3

Record ID Number: MH:IF294

Date: 1740

Place: Prince Edward, Virginia, United States

Death

Death:

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Record ID Number: MH:IF293

Date: 1808

Place: Sinks, Monroe, West Virginia, United States

Sources

1. ↑ "A History of Monroe County, West Virginia," by Oren F. Morton
2. ↑ Biography of Franklin County, Indiana.

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Will book 1 page 94 Monroe County, West Virginia