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Favorite Leech Family Photos

The Leech name: The earlest Leech ancesters spelled the name Leech while many today spell it Leach. I must spell all Leaches by the earlier spelling. My Family Tree Program will not accept a father spelling his name Leech while a son spells his Leach. So if you are looking at this and wondering, now you know the rest of the story.

This is John Leech. The picture was taken early 1862.
Later in 1862 John was wounded while he and six other men escaped from a confedrate prison where they were placed after being caught by a confederate brigade. John and the other six men were caught and ordered shot. Someone came along sometime later to find John alive and took him to a union incampment. He was later taken to a hospital in Saint Louis Missouri where he spent almost a year recovering from his wounds.

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This is John Leech with his first wife Amanda Fullhart. She is the Daughter of Joel Fullhart and Nancy Ann Millburn.
She died from falling off a horse five days after the birth of Cora Alice.

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This is John Leech and wife Nancy Jane Haines with some of their children. The baby is Earl, the tall girl is Cora, the other two boys are (front) William (back) Samual.

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This is Clell Leech and wife Erma Horton. Clell is the son of Samual Leech while Erma is the daughter of George Horton and Della Hicks. Della is grandpa's sister who was the daughter of Stephen Nelson Hicks. Their children Floyd, Dixie, James and Leroy are my double cousins.

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Below is Floyd Junior Leech. He is the eldest son of Clell and Erma Leech. On February 17, 1978 he died in a head on collision while driving to work on hiway 30 near State Center Iowa where he lived with his wife Linda and son Nile Edward.

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Above is Virgil Leech with his first wife Vernie Horton. Vernie died on October 28, 1946. Virgil then marries the older sister.
Below is Gertha Horton and daughter Betty Jean.
Gertha's husband was Virgil Leech. He is the brother to John, Clell, Josie, to name a few.

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This is John Leech as an old man. His two daughters are with him.

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The Older person is Amanda Belle Mercer who was the wife of Samual Chester Leech. The other lady is their daughter, Josie Blanche Leech, the wife of John Ed Hicks. The Boy in the picture her grand son Terry Lee Wilcox.

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This is John Leech the son os Samual and Belle. John never married, he lived the later part of his life in Chapel MO.

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This is Icycle Leech, the daughter of Samual Leech and Amanda Belle Mercer. She is the sister to John, Clell, Virgil and Josie. I was told she changed her given name, this could be bacause I could not find her on a genealogy search. She died in the early 1980s of Cancer.

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This is Minnie Leech, she is the daughter of Earl Leech.
With her is her husband Johnny Ryals and son Howard Frances Edward Ryals. I thought of them as Aunt Minnie and Uncle Johnny.
They were family and I miss them cause all three have been taken by our father. Minnie and Johnny's children Johnny Eugene, Howard, Peggy and Tammy were most like bro/sis to me.

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