... Soon after leaving the royal service, Thomas Leggitt was married in Philadelphia, to Elizabeth Sterling, an English woman of good repute in the town of Philadelphia. The family consisted of four children, who, with the widowed mother, came west in the early "forties." They were:
- Sarah McCarty, whose husband was killed in an explosion in the Hungarian neighborhood near St. Paul, years ago, and she died at Greely, Colorado in 1902;
- James, the subject of this sketch;
- Joseph, living in this city;
- Eliza, who died in 1854. ...
