Amzi Dodridge Leech^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1832 - 1872  (39 years)

• Name	Amzi Dodridge Leech
  Birth	25 Dec 1832
  Gender	Male
  Death	18 Sep 1872
  Person ID	I4401	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2005

  
  

  Father	James Crawford Leech,   b. 14 Sep 1802, Rockbridge County,,,Virginia d. 23 Jan 1840, Smithland,,Livingston County,Kentucky (Age 37 years)
  Mother	Malinda M. Glenn,   b. 14 Jul 1806, Lyon County,,,Kentucky d. 20 Oct 1873, Paducah,,Mccracken County,Kentucky (Age 67 years)
  Marriage	02 Oct 1823
  Family ID	F2582	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth L. Haydock,   b. 26 Sep 1833, Smithland,,Livingston County,Kentucky d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	19 Oct 1853	Smithland,,Livingston County,Kentucky
  Children	1. Mattie Augusta Leech,   b. 24 Aug 1854, Livingston County,,,Kentucky d. Yes, date unknown   2. Thomas Crawford Leech,   b. 04 Mar 1855, Livingston County,,,Kentucky d. 19 Apr 1906, St. Louis,,,Missouri (Age 51 years)   3. Alma Leech,   b. 24 Feb 1857, Cape Girardeau,,Girardeau County,Missouri d. Yes, date unknown   4. Mary Leech,   b. 16 Feb 1859, Cape Girardeau,,Girardeau County,Missouri d. 01 Sep 1874, Cape Girardeau,,Girardeau County,Missouri (Age 15 years)   5. Nancy Ann Leech,   b. 05 Jan 1861, Cape Girardeau,,Girardeau County,Missouri d. 07 Jan 1951, St. Louis,,St. Louis County,Missouri (Age 90 years)   6. Robert Sturdivant Leech,   b. 21 Mar 1864   d. 15 Oct 1902, Waterbury,,,Connecticut (Age 38 years)   7. Amzi Dodridge Leech, Jr.,   b. 15 Sep 1866   d. 24 Sep 1902, Kansas City,,Clay County,Missouri (Age 36 years)   8. William Varnell Leech,   b. 04 Feb 1867   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F1555	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Jan 2005

  
  

• Notes

  W. V. became a partner of A. D. Leech and carried on the bussiness after the older brother's death. Moved to Cape Girardeau with his family in 1856. From the "Story of Great-Grandmother Leech" (for more detail see Master Sources); Amzi Leech and Elizabeth Haydock were married Oct. 19th, 1853. Four years later, in 1857, they came to Cape Girardeau to live, and Amzi Leech became the owner of a general merchandise store on the corner of Main and Themis Street, the best business stand in town at the time. From what I have gathered of A. D. Leech's business methods, I suspect they more nearly resembled 20th Century methods than anything Cape Girardeau had experienced up to that time. He established a cotton market that brought cotton to the Cape from as far South as Arkansas, instead of to Menphis, as previously. It was not an unusual sight in season to see cotton wagons lined up next to the Leech store, down Main street, up Independence and south on Spanish for half a block or more. Mr. Frank Anderson of Commerce once told me that A. D. Leech went personally among the farmers of the lower counties and solicited their business, that he had a charming personality and numbered his friends in Southeast Missouri by the hundreds, the men held their cotton for him because they had confidence in his fair and square dealing. He had faith in the future of Cape Girardeau and gave the town his loyal support. A. D. Leech died in 1873 at the age of thirty nine.

  
  

• Sources

  [S91] Story of Great Grandmother Leech. [S132] Don McCarty, Manor, TX, McCarty-Smith GEDCOM file. [S86] Clementine (Brown) Railey, House of Ochiltree, (Bulletin Printing Company, Sterling, Kansas, 1916 @NS989251@ @NS989252@). [S71] VM, Family Group Sheets for Leech Family, D5.5 (Reliability: 3).