Person:George Leach (9)

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George Leach
b.1 Aug 1756 Fauquier, Virginia, United States
d.20 Feb 1838 Jackson, Ohio, United States
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  1. Frances V Leach1786 -
  2. Willis Leach1790 - 1866
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Name George Leach
Gender Male
Birth? 1 Aug 1756 Fauquier, Virginia, United States
Marriage to Nancy Ann Bigbee
Death? 20 Feb 1838 Jackson, Ohio, United States
Burial[1] Bundy-Paine Cemetery, Wellston, Jackson, Ohio, United States

"George Leach, while residing in Fauquier County, Virginia, enlisted in 1777, and served as a bombardier in Captain Elias Edmunds' Company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's Virginia Regiment and was discharged in 1780, at which time his Captain Elias Edmunds was Colonel of the Regiment. He afterwards served in the Militia and was wounded at Williamsburg, officers not stated. His brother, Thomas Leach, served a tour of three months as his substitute."

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  1. ↑ 32609345 , in Find A Grave
    includes photos, last accessed Sep 2022.

    Original stone is badly broken with parts missing. A new stone has been installed.

  2.   Bibbee, Fannie Roush. History of Leachtown, West Va. (Parkersburg, West Virginia: W. Cochran, 1989).

    The father of the man for whom Leachtown was named was Captain George Leach; he was born, reared, and married in Eastern Virginia. He came to Wood County, then a part of Harrison, in 1805, by way of Wheeling.

    He came to Ohio about a year before his death and stayed with his son Thomas Whiting Leach.

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