Note from Don M. McCarty, 2004: Although it is correct to call Thomas Crawford Leech's son, "Thomas Crawford Leech, Jr.", it is not correct to call his other sons, "John Johnston Leech" and "William Varnell Leech" as Juniors. John Johnston Leech, Sr. andWilliam Varnell Leech, Sr., were brothers of Thomas Crawford Leech, Sr. But as far as I know neither John Johnston Leech, Sr. nor William Varnell Leech, Sr. had children that they named Junior, so this terminology, used historically in the family helps to keep the record straight eventhough it is not technically accurate.
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Extract from a letter written by this Thomas Crawford Leech to his cousin William Bolivar Finley Leech of Rockbridge County, Virginia, kindly firnished (for reprint in the Ochiltree Book) by John Houston Leech of Lexington, Virginia, son of William Bolivar Finley Leech:
I see from my father's old Bible that the above [the children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Crawford) Leech] were my uncles and aunts. My grandfather, Thomas Leech moved to Livingston County, Kentucky from Rockbridge, Virginia, when my father was a boy. I remember to have seen Uncle John [of Broad Creek] at my father's house when I was a small boy. He came on a visit from Rockbridge County. My Aunt Margaret Leech married Thomas Gilmore. They lived near Terre Haute, Indiana. My father married Miss Glenn, raised seven children, six boys and one girl; all dead except sister Martha, who is the wife of Joseph H. Fowler, and myself. My brother, William Leech, lived in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I have a wife and seven children. My grandfather, Thomas Leech, married Betsey Crawford, August 1792, and Margaret Scott in 1816. Truly yours, Thomas C. Leech.
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James Crawford Leech
Malinda M. Glenn
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