SOME RESEARCHERS SAY OUR FIRST LEADENHAM ANCESTOR WAS NAMED WILLIAM AND THAT HE MIGRATED TO SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1764 FROM LEADENHAM, ENGLAND AND WAS THE SON OF JOHN REEVES AND MARY ABBOTT LEADENHAM. THAT HE WAS BORN ABOUT 1745 AND WAS SIXTEEN YEARS OLD WHEN HE ARRIVED IN SOUTH CAROLINA. THIS THEORY HAS NOT BEEN PROVEN.
THERE WERE LEDNUM/LEADENHAM SURNAMES LIVING IN TALBOT COUNTY, MARYLAND AS EARLY AS 1650. WE MIGHT FIND WILLIAM LEADENHAM IN MARYLAND?
IN ACCORDANCE WITH DOCUMENTATION RECEIVED FROM THE ARCHIVES AND HISTORY IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, IT IS KNOWN THAT WILLIAM LEADENHAM MARRIED ELIZABETH (UNKNOWN), BUT PROBABLY STAFFORD.
WILLIAM RECEIVE TWO LAND GRANTS IN 1764, IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
ONE TRACT OF LAND WAS DOCUMENTED AS BEING 150 ACRES IN SIZE, AND LOCATED ON TOMS CREEK, BETWEEN THE CONGAREE AND WATEREE RIVERS. UTILIZING TODAYS MAP, YOU WOULD FIND THE FARM ON TOMS CREEK, LOCATED IN PRESENT DAY RICHLAND COUNTY, ABOUT TWELVE MILES SOUTHEAST OF THE STATE CAPITAL OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.
ALSO, IN ACCORDANCE SOUTH CAROLINA ARCHIVE RECORDS, PAGES 18613 AND 18614, AND THEIR MICROCOPY NUMBER 10, THAT THE ARCHIVES MAILED ON MARCH 8, 1992, TO MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM, THAT STATES THE FOLLOWING:
1. AUGUST 17, 1764. A WILLIAM LEDENHAM OWNED A PLAT OF 250 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, (RICHLAND COUNTY TODAY) AND STATED THAT THE LAND WAS BETWEEN THE CONGAREE AND WATEREE RIVERS.
THE FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM A HAND DRAWN PLAT MAP OF SUBJECT DOCUMENT:
----CAROLINA PURSUANT TO A ------- FROM JOHN TROUP, DATED AUG 17,1764, I HAVE LAID OUT UNTO WILLIAM LEDENHAM A TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY ON THE LOW GROUND OF CONGAREE RIVER, BORDERING A SMALL PART ON THE SAID RIVER AND THE REMAINING PART ON LAND BELONGING TO THE HEIRS OF ISAAC MYRICK, AND EAST SIDE BY VACANT LAND (COUPLE WORDS I CAN NOT READ)----ON JOHN GRANTS LAND, AND HATH SUCH FORMS OR MARKS INDICATED ON THE HAND DRAWN PLAT.
CERTIFIED ON AUG 13, 1764 BY ---- PEARSON.
2. OCT 25, 1764. A LAND GRANT FOR 250 ACRES IN CRAVEN COUNTY.
3. NOV 24, 1764. A WILLIAM LEDENHAM MEMORIAL FOR 250 ACRES IN
CRAVEN COUNTY, ON THE CONGAREE RIVER.
4. FEB 17, 1767. A WILLIAM LEDENHAM LAND GRANT FOR 200 ACRES IN
BERKELEY COUNTY. THE 1992, SOUTH CAROLINA MAP SHOWS BERKELEY COUNTY IS LOCATED NORTH EAST OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THE COUNTY SEAT IN MONCKS CORNER, BELOW LAKE MOULTRIE. BERKELEY COUNTY COULD HAVE GONE AS FAR NORTH AS THE CENTER OF THE STATE IN 1764. I AM NOT SURE WHERE THIS PLAT OF LAND WAS, EXCEPT IN BERKELEY COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA.
5. YEAR 1776, PAGE 18614 OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, DATED MAR 8, 1991, STATES THAT WILLIAM LEDINGHAM LEASED AND RELEASED FROM HARDY JENKINS.
6. YEAR 1776, OR LATER. ALSO ON PAGE 18614 OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, (DATED MAR 8, 1991, DATE DOCUMENT MAILED TO MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM IN FREDERICK, MD). ENTRY NUMBER 0015-003-0087-00346-00, STATES THAT WILLIAM LEDINGHAM'S ACCOUNT WAS AUDITED, (FILE NO. 4485) OF CLAIMS GROWING OUT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
7. 155 ACRES ON TOMS CREEK, CONGAREE RIVER, RICHLAND DISTRICT. THIS DOCUMENT IS A PLAT MAP OF THE 155 ACRES, THAT SHOWS THE END OF HIS FARM BORDERED ON TOMS CREEK. THE HAND WRITTEN PLAT MAP WAS CERTIFIED BY JOSIAH KILGORE ON JAN 30, 1816, AND READS AS FOLLOWS:
I DO CERTIFY FOR WILLIAM LEDDINGHAM A PLANTATION OR TRACT OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FIVE ACRES OF LAND, SURVEYED FOR REVIEW THE 30TH OF JAN 1816, SITUATED IN RICHLAND DISTRICT ON TOMS CREEK, WATER OF THE CONGAREE RIVER----(EIGHT WORDS I CAN NOT READ), GIVEN UNDER MY HAND THIS 2ND OF MAR 1816. SIGNED JOSIAH E. KILGORE.(THIS PLAT OF LAND WAS OUR ORIGINAL WILLIAM LEADENHAM'S SON, AS WILLIAM BORN ABOUT 1745 DIED IN 1783, AND THIS LAND WAS CERTIFIED IN MARCH OF 1816.)
8. LAND GRANT SIGNED ON JAN 3, 1767, FOR A TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING TWO HUNDRED ACRES IN BERKELEY COUNTY, ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE CONGAREE RIVER, TO WILLIAM LEDENAHAN. THIS DOCUMENT IS A PRINTED FORM USED IN THOSE DAYS TO FILL IN THE BLANKS FOR LAND GRANTS, AND IS QUOTED IN PART FOR YOUR INFORMATION:
"QUOTE"
SOUTH CAROLINA.
GEORGE THE THIRD BY THE GRACE OF GOD, OF GREAT-BRITAIN, FRANCE AND
IRELAND, KING, DEFENDER OF THE FAITH, AND TO FORTH, TO ALL TO WHOM
THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME GREETING; KNOW YE, THAT WE OF OUR SPECIAL
GRACE, CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE AND MERE MOTION, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, AND BY THELE PREFENTS, FOR US, OUR HEIRS AND FUCCEFFOURS, DO AND GRAND UNTO__WILLIAM LEDENAHAN__HIS HEIRS AND AFFIGNS, A
PLANTATION OR TRACT OF LAND CONTAINING _______TWO HUNDRED ACRES--IN
BERKELEY COUNTY_______.
THE DOCUMENT GOES ON TO SAY THAT WILLIAM LEDENHAN MUST CLEAR THREE ACRES OF LAND FOR EACH HUNDRED ACRES OWNED, AND IF WILLIAM FAILS TO CLEAR THE LAND IN THREE YEARS, IT WILL REVERT BACK TO THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
"UNQUOTE"
9. A DOCUMENT NUMBER 551, TAKEN OUT OF A DOCUMENT NUMBERED 548, BOOK
L. STATES THAT WILLIAM LEADINGHAM, HIS ACRES OF ----- AND STORAGE FOR
CONT---- AND MILITIA IN 1781 AND 1782. THE DOCUMENT MUST BE A COPY OF
A BOOK KEEPING LEDGER USED BY THE SOUTH CAROLINA MILITIA TO KEEP TRACK
OF ACCOUNTS OWED TO CITIZENS OF SOUTH CAROLINA THAT SOLD ITEMS TO THE
MILITIA. THE DOCUMENT STATES CHARGES OF 62 POUNDS, 13 SHILLINGS AND 8
PENCE STERLING. THE ACCOUNT WAS SETTLED ON MAY 17, 1785. (ACCORDING
TO CHRIS ROBINSON OF ROUTE 1, BOX 298-5 BELL, FL. ZIP 32619,
WILLIAM LEADINGHAM DIED THE LATTER PART OF 1784. A COPY OF HIS WILL
HAS NOT BEEN LOCATED AS OF 1995). WILLIAM ALSO PURCHASED 100 ACRES.
THE FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM NOTABLE EVENTS IN SOUTH CAROLINA
HISTORY, WHICH WILL GIVE THE READER AN IDEA OF EVENTS THAT TOOK
PLACE IN AMERICA PRIOR TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND PLACE WILLIAM
LEADENHAM IN SOUTH CAROLINA DURING A PERIOD OF OUR HISTORY THAT
FINALLY SHAPED OUR PRESENT DAY GOVERNMENT.
"QUOTE"
1. 1526-LUCAS VASQUEZ DE AYLLON ESTABLISHES SHORT LIVED SPANISH
COLONY ON WINYAH BAY.
2. 1562 JEAN RIBAUT FOUNDS FRENCH COLONY AT PORT ROYAL.
3. 1566- SPANISH FORT SAN FELIPE BUILT ON PARIS ISLAND.
4. 1629- KING CHARLES 1, OF ENGLAND, GRANTS CAROLINA, 31 DEG. TO 36.
DEG. N. LATITUDE, TO SIR ROBERT HEATH.
5. 1663- KING CHARLES 11, OF ENGLAND, GRANTS CAROLINA CHARTER TO
EIGHT LORDS PROPRIETOR: LIMITS FIXED. 29DEG. TO 36 DEG.30 N. LATITUDE,
IN 1665.
6. 1669-JOHN LOCKE DRAWS UP FUNDAMENTAL CONSTITUTION.
7. 1670-FIRST PERMANENT ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN CAROLINA. CHARLES TOWN
MADE ON ASHLEY RIVER, AND MOVED TO PRESENT SITE OF CHARLESTON IN 1680.
8. 1680-MADAGASCAR RICE INTRODUCED ABOUT THIS TIME. COMMERCIAL INDIGO
GROWN IN 1742.
9. 1706- FRENCH AND SPANISH REPULSED AT CHARLES TOWN.
10. 1715-YAMASEE INDIANS ATTACK SETTLERS, AND ARE SUBDUED IN 1716.
11. 1718-CAROLINA COAST FREED OF PIRATE MENACE.
12. 1719-CAROLINIANS REVOLT AGAINST PROPRIETARY GOVERNMENT. LORDS
PROPRIETOR, WITH ONE EXCEPTION, SELL INTERESTS TO KING IN 1729.
13. 1730-CAROLINA DIVIDED; BOUNDARY SETTLED IN 1815.
14. 1760-CHEEROKE ATTACK SETTLERS; ARE SUBDUED IN 1761.
15. 1774-PROVINCIAL CONGRESS ELECTS DELEGATES TO CONTINENTAL
CONGRESS; APPOINTS SECRET "ACTION COMMITTEES"; ROYAL GOVERNOR WILLIAM
CAMPBELL FLEES IN 1775.
16. 1776-PROVINCIAL CONGRESS ADOPTS TEMPORARY CONSTITUTION;
CONSTITUTION OF 1778 DECLARES INDEPENDENCE FROM ENGLAND. COLONISTS
REPULSE BRITISH AT CHARLES TOWN.
17. 1780-BRITISH OCCUPY CHARLES TOWN AFTER SIEGE; ARE DEFEATED AT
KINGS MOUNTAIN; LOSE BATTLE AT COWPENS IN 1781; EVACUATE CHARLES TOWN
IN 1782.
18. 1783-CHARLES TOWN RENAMED CHARLESTON.
19. CAPITAL MOVED TO COLUMBIA.
20. 1788- SOUTH CAROLINA IS EIGHTH STATE TO RATIFY U.S. CONSTITUTION,
ON MAY 23.
21. 1801-STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDED AT COLUMBIA.
22. 1812-JOHN CALHOUN LEADS DRIVE FOR WAR WITH ENGLAND.
23. 1860-SOUTH CAROLINA IS FIRST STATE TO SECEDE FROM UNION.
24. 1861-CIVIL WAR BEGINS WITH CONFEDERATE FORCES FIRING ON FORT
SUMTER IN CHARLESTON HARBOR.
25. 1865-UNION TROOPS BURN COLUMBIA.
26. 1868-STATE READMITTED TO UNION.
27. 1876-GEN. WADE HAMPTON ELECTED GOVERNOR, AND RESTORING STATE
GOVERNMENT TO LOCAL CONTROL; FEDERAL TROOPS ORDERED TO EVACUATE STATE
IN 1877.
FROM DOCUMENTATION REFERENCED ABOVE, WE DO KNOW THAT WILLIAM
LEADENHAM WAS LIVING IN CRAVEN COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA FROM 1764
TILL HE DIED IN 1783.
IN 1995 WE FOUND A STAFFORD LEADENHAM ON THE SOUTH CAROLINA CENSUS AND ON A TAX LIST IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. WE BELIEVE THAT WILLIAM LEADENHAM THAT CAME TO SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1764 HAD TWO SONS WE CAN ACCOUNT FOR. JOHN AND WILLIAM EDWARD OR EDMUND. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1790 SOUTH CAROLINA CENSUS, I BELIEVE
ANOTHER SON WAS STAFFORD (PROBABLY NAMED AFTER HIS MOTHER WHO WE ALSO BELIEVE WAS A STAFFORD) AND THAT STAFFORD HAD A SON IN 1785, NAMED PETER LEADENHAM THAT MARRIED SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON, DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL AND ELIZABETH HAMILTON OF VIRGINIA. WE NOW BELIEVE THAT STAFFORD, PETER'S FATHER MIGRATED INTO PIKE COUNTY,
KENTUCKY AROUND 1812 AND MOVED FURTHER NORTH INTO CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY AROUND 1835, WHERE PETER SETTLE ON LEADINGHAM BRANCH AND RAISED NINE CHILDREN.
THE DOCUMENTATION SO FOR UNCOVERED, PROVES THAT PETER LEADINGHAM
AND SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON WERE THE FIRST LEADINGHAM FAMILY TO SETTLE
IN THE STATE OF KENTUCKY, AROUND 1812 OR 1814, BECAUSE ALL DESCENDANTS THAT I HAVE FOUND, CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THE CHILDREN OF PETER AND SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON LEADINGHAM. THEIR FIRST CHILD,
ELIZABETH WAS BORN IN 1814, IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THEIR NEXT
FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN BETWEEN 1814 AND 1825, ALSO IN PIKE COUNTY, AT
LICKING STATION. THE DOCUMENTATION ALSO GOES ON TO SAY THAT
PETER AND SALLY HAMILTON WERE AMONG THE FIRST SETTLERS OF LICKING
STATION, NEAR PRESENT DAY, SALYERSVILLE, KENTUCKY. SALYERSVILLE TODAY
IS LOCATED IN MAGOFFIN COUNTY, BUT IN 1814-1825 IT WAS PIKE COUNTY.
PETER AND SARAH HAMILTON LEADENHAM HAD NINE CHILDREN:
1. ELIZABETH LEADENHAM, BORN IN 1814, IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND
MARRIED JOHN H. TACKETT ON AUG 17, 1828, IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
ELIZABETH AND JOHN H. TACKETT HAD SIX CHILDREN, THAT WE HAVE LOCATED:
JESSE JAMES TACKETT, BORN MAR OF 1829, IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND
MARRIED GEMIMA WAGGONER IN 1851, IN MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY; MARY ANN TACKETT, BORN JULY 10, 1833, IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND MARRIED
ANDREW S. FOSTER ON MAR 10, 1853, IN MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY; HELEN
TACKETT, BORN IN 1845, IN LAUREL, MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND DIED ON
NOV 2, 1855, IN MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY; LEANDER C. (ROBERT)
TACKETT, BORN MAY 13, 1848, IN MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND MARRIED
ELIZA A. HARPER ON APR 12, 1878, IN ELLIOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY; SARAH
TACKETT, BORN AUG 12, 1852, IN MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND MARRIED
A MR. (UNKNOWN) RATCLIFF.
HER HUSBAND, JOHN H. TACKETT, WAS THE SON OF THOMAS TACKETT,
BORN CA. 1770, IN NORTH CAROLINA, AND DIED AFTER 1850 IN JOHNSON
COUNTY, KENTUCKY. JOHN H. TACKETT'S MOTHER WAS SARAH (UNKNOWN) TACKETT OF PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
ELIZABETH LEADENHAM TACKETT, DIED AFTER 1881, SINCE HER
SIGNATURE WAS ON A DOCUMENT DATED 1881, THAT HER FATHER PETER, HAD
DRAWN UP TO TRANSFER LAND TO HIS CHILDREN, WHICH WAS LOCATED ON
LEADINGHAM BRANCH, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE DATES, AND PLACE OF BIRTH OF ELIZABETH AND
JOHN H. TACKETT'S CHILDREN, YOU WILL SEE THAT THEY PROBABLY MOVED FROM PIKE COUNTY, TO MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, PRIOR TO 1848, WHERE HELEN TACKETT WAS BORN, IN 1845, AT LAUREL, MORGAN COUNTY, AND ALL OF THE CHILDREN WERE MARRIED IN MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
2. JACOB LEADENHAM, BORN IN 1816, IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND
MARRIED FRANCES WATSON ON MAY 29, 1839, NEAR WILLARD, CARTER COUNTY,
KENTUCKY. JACOB DIED JUNE 2, 1888, NEAR LEADINGHAM BRANCH, IN CARTER
COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
JACOB AND FRANCES WATSON LEADENHAM HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN,
ALL BORN IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, IN AND AROUND LEADINGHAM BRANCH AND LITTLE FORK CREEK:
A. MARY LEADENHAM, BORN AROUND 1841, AND MARRIED HARVEY JUSTICE AND
THEY HAD ONE SON THAT WE KNOW OF, NAMED DAVID JUSTICE, BORN CA. 1861.
B. PETER M. LEADENHAM, BORN AUG 12, 1842, IN CARTER COUNTY, AND
MARRIED MARY (MOLLY) MAGGARD, ON APR 27, 1865, IN CARTER COUNTY.
MOLLY MAGGARD WAS BORN IN OCT 1847. PETER DIED ON NOV
21, 1919, IN CARTER COUNTY. PETER AND MOLLY MAGGARD LEADENHAM HAD TWO CHILDREN, ONE OF WHICH WAS JOHN HENRY LEADENHAM, BORN NOV
26,1874, AND HE MARRIED TWO TIMES, FIRST TO ROSA BLEVINS, AND THEY HAD
FOUR CHILDREN, AND SECOND TO PEARL STAPLETON IN OCT OF 1909. JOHN
HENRY AND PEARL HAD TWO MORE CHILDREN.
C. WILLIAM LEADENHAM, BORN FEBRUARY 14, 1845, AND DIED BEFORE
AUG 1914. HE MARRIED VIRGINIA SARGENT, BORN MAY 15, 1890, IN CARTER
COUNTY. VIRGINIA WAS BORN IN NOV OF 1846, AND DIED ON AUG
30, 1914. WILLIAM WAS 46 YEARS OLD WHEN HE MARRIED. IN THE 1900
CENSUS OF CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, THERE WAS ONLY ONE CHILD LIVING
WITH WILLIAM AND VIRGINIA, GEORGANA, WHO WAS BORN IN MAY OF 1886, AND
MARRIED ALVIN PENIS, ON JUNE 5, 1913. GEORGANA'S MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
STATES GEORGIA LEADINGHAM, AGE 27, MOTHER JANE ADAMS, AND FATHER
UNKNOWN. ONE RECORD SHOWS THAT WILLIAM LEADENHAM MARRIED A VIRGINIA SARGENT AND ONE VIRGINIA ADAMS. PROBABLY VIRGINIA SARGENT ADAMS, AND SHE PROBABLY WAS MARRIED TWO TIMES, FIRST TO A ADAMS, SINCE WILLIAM WAS 46 YEARS OLD, SO HER FULL NAME MAY HAVE BEEN VIRGINIA SARGENT ADAMS LEADENHAM?
D. SEVILLER (SARAH) LEADENHAM, BORN MAR 13, 1846, IN CARTER
COUNTY, NEAR LEADINGHAM BRANCH AND LITTLE FORK CREEK, AND MARRIED
DAVID MAGGARD, ON AUG 26, 1865, AND THEY HAD THREE CHILDREN:
SEVILLER, BORN DEC 17, 1861, AND DIED MAR 5, 1927, AND SHE
MARRIED DOUGLAS A. HYLTON. (THE DATE OF SEVILLER'S BIRTH IN 1861,
PRIOR TO HIS PARENTS MARRIAGE OF 1865, COULD BE WRONG); THEIR SECOND
CHILD WAS EASTER MAGGARD, BORN APRIL 5, 1873, AND SHE DIED ON APRIL
30, 1920. THEIR THIRD CHILD WAS SARAH MAGGARD, BORN APRIL 15, 1878.
E. JAMES LEADENHAM, BORN JULY 25, 1849, IN CARTER COUNTY, DIED JUNE
1, 1911, IN CARTER COUNTY, OF A SUN STROKE. JAMES MARRIED TWO TIMES,
FIRST TO MARGARET(HAYES) BLEVINS?, ON JUNE 19, 1884, IN CARTER COUNTY,
AND THERE WERE NO CHILDREN. HIS SECOND MARRIAGE WAS TO NANCY G.
HYLTON, OF HYLTON BRANCH AND LITTLE FORK CREEK, NEAR WILLARD, CARTER
COUNTY. NANCY G. HYLTON DIED ON AUG 20, 1929, IN CARTER COUNTY. JAMES
AND NANCY G. HYLTON LEADENHAM, HAD ONE DAUGHTER, NAMED IDA LEADENHAM AND ONE SON, NAMED NATHAN:
(1). IDA LEADENHAM, BORN DEC 2, 1878, AND DIED DEC 27, 1920. ON MOST
LEGAL DOCUMENTS SHE WENT BY THE NAME ON IDA HELTON, BUT LISTED JAMES
LEADINGHAM AS HER FATHER. ON HER DEATH CERTIFICATE, HER FATHER IS
LISTED AS JAMES PENNINGTON? IDA HELTON, LEADENHAM, OR IS IT
PENNINGTON, MARRIED TWO TIMES. FIRST TO PETER LEADINGHAM, SON OF
THOMAS LEADINGHAM AND MARY ANN JUSTICE, AND IDA AND PETER LEADINGHAM HAD FIVE CHILDREN. SHE MARRIED SECOND TO JOHN HALL, AND SHE DIED NINE MONTHS LATER FROM SHOCK OF CHILD BIRTH (CHILD WAS STILL BORN).
(2). NATHAN LEADENHAM, BORN MAY 7, 1881, EIGHT MONTHS BEFORE JAMES
LEADENHAM AND NANCY G. HYLTON WERE MARRIED. NATHAN DIED ON SEP 18,
1952. HE MARRIED ISABELLA PENNINGTON, BORN NOV 27, 1886, AND
SHE DIED ON APRIL 25, 1960.
NATHAN AND ISABELLA PENNINGTON LEADINGHAM HAD THE FOLLOWING TWELVE CHILDREN: 1. STELLA, BORN 9 JUNE 1907; 2. NERVA, B 26 JAN 1909;
3. HATTIE, B 14 DEC 1910, DIED 11 NOV 1911; 4. JAMES, B 28 FEB 1935;
5. JESSE, B: 25 MAR 1915, D 14 FEB 1970; 6. NANCY, B: 4 FEB 1917, D:
FEB 1917; 7. EVERETT PRESTON AND EVA B: 25 APR 1918, EVA DIED SPRING
OF 1923; 8. DOLLY, B: 18 JULY 1920; 9. EARL B: 12 SEPT 1922,
STILLBORN; 10. RUSSELL, B: 19 SEPT 1923, STILLBORN; 11. SHIRLEY, B: 25
AUG 1925. (ALL BORN AND RAISED ON MEADOWS BRANCH, JUST OFF ROUTE
1122, A GRAVEL ROAD BEFORE YOU GET TO LEADINGHAM BRANCH).
ISABELLA PENNINGTON WAS THE DAUGHTER OF WESLEY FLOYD PENNINGTON
AND MARY ELIZABETH (UNKNOWN) PENNINGTON. WESLEY FLOYD AND MARY
ELIZABETH PENNINGTON HAD TWELVE (12) CHILDREN.
F. EPHRAIM LEADENHAM, BORN FEB 22, 1852, IN CARTER COUNTY, AND
DIED MAR 19, 1915, IN CARTER COUNTY. HE MARRIED TWO TIMES. FIRST TO
NANCY BLEVINS ON MARCH 13, 1874, AND SECOND TO LOUISA HAYES, IN 1882.
BOTH MARRIAGES WERE IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
G. JOHN LEADENHAM, BORN DEC 15, 1853, IN CARTER COUNTY, AND HE
DIED IN 1914, IN ELLIOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
H. LEWIS (LUCAS) LEADENHAM, BORN IN 1854, IN CARTER COUNTY, AND DIED
IN 1900, IN ELLIOTT COUNTY, AND HE MARRIED ELIZABETH MAGGARD.
I. NANCY LEADENHAM, BORN JUNE 13, 1859, IN CARTER COUNTY, AND DIED ON
JAN 25, 1927. NANCY MARRIED WILLIAM W. BLEVINS, IN 1880, IN
CARTER COUNTY.
THE 1866 CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY TAX LIST SHOWS JACOB
LEADENHAM OWNED 250, VALUED AT $400.00, HIS BROTHER THOMAS, 75 ACRES,
VALUED AT $250.00, AND HIS SISTER, SARAH 50 ACRES VALUED AT $100.00,
ALL PROPERTY BEING ON LITTLE FORK CREEK, CARTER CO. KY.
3. MARY (POLLY) LEADENHAM, BORN SEP 7, 1817, IN PIKE COUNTY,
KENTUCKY, AND MARRIED JAMES HARVEY STURGILL, SR. IN 1840, IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. SHE DIED AFTER 1900 IN CARTER COUNTY. KENTUCKY.
JAMES HARVEY STURGILL, SR., BORN IN 1820, IN VIRGINIA, THE SON OF
JOSEPH STURGILL AND AMY CLARK.
MARY (POLLY) LEADENHAM AND JAMES HARVEY STURGILL, SR., HAD THE
FOLLOWING CHILDREN, ALL BORN IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY:
RUTH STURGILL, C. 1841; ELIZABETH, C. 1845; HAMILTON, BORN DEC 3,
1846, AND DIED DEC 3, 1917; ELIJAH, BORN 10-31-1848, MARRIED NANCY GRIFFITH, ON MAR 24, 1874, IN CARTER CO. KY.; WILLIAM, BORN
C. 1851, DIED MAY 11, 1918, IN CARTER CO. KY., AND MARRIED AMANDA
ROBINSON, CA. 1871, IN CARTER CO. KY.; JAMES HARVEY JR.,BORN MAY 7,
1853, DIED MAY 11, 1918, AND MARRIED SERENA PENNINGTON, ON NOV
2, 1878, IN CARTER CO. KY.
4. HETTIE LEADENHAM, BORN FEBRUARY 25, 1821, IN PIKE CO. KY., AND
MARRIED JAMES CASTNER ROBINSON ON AUG 17, 1853, IN CARTER CO. KY.
SHE DIED IN 1884, IN CARTER CO. HETTIE AND JAMES HAD THE FOLLOWING
CHILDREN: AMERICA, BORN SEP 28, 1854, DIED 29 AUG 1859, AT AGE 5.
WILLIAM EZEKIEL, BORN 3 JULY 1856, DIED 20 FEB 1920, IN CARTER CO. KY.
HE MARRIED LUCY MARY MORRIS, BORN 15 MAR 1860. SHE DIED CA. 1940.
WILLIAM EZEKIEL AND MARY MORRIS HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN. AMERICA,
HATTIE, NANCY, JAMES, BURRELL, CLARA, NELLIE, WILLIAM, EZEKIEL, JR.,
SUSAN AND JOHN.
5. JESSE L. LEADENHAM, BORN MAY 9, 1824, IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
AND MARRIED TWO TIMES, FIRST TO ELIZA WAGGONER, ON MAR 2, 1848, IN
MORGAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY. SECOND TO MARTHA TIPTON, IN 1872, IN CARTER
COUNTY, KENTUCKY. JESSE L. DIED ON JUNE 26, 1901, IN ELLIOTT COUNTY,
KY.
6. WILLIAM THOMAS LEADENHAM, BORN JULY 26, 1829, ON LEADINGHAM
BRANCH, CARTER COUNTY, KY., AND MARRIED NAOMI PARSONS, IN 1862.
WILLIAM THOMAS DIED ON JAN 21, 1915, ON HIS FARM ON LITTLE FORK
CREEK, CARTER COUNTY, KY.
WILLIAM THOMAS AND NAOMI PARSONS LEADINGHAM, HAD SEVERAL
CHILDREN, ONE OF WHICH WAS JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM, THAT MARRIED
DELILAH JANE WELLS. JESSE CAUDLE AND DELILAH JANE WELLS LEADINGHAM,
WERE THE PARENTS OF: VIRGIE MAE, BORN IN 1895, MARRIED MASON SEXTON ON
17 SEP 1913; OLLIE, BORN IN MAR 1898, MARRIED CHARLIE MONTGOMERY;
LLOYD, BORN 28 JULY 1900, DIED 24 JUNE 1920, IN A COAL MINE ACCIDENT;
EVERETT EARL, B: 4 MAR 1903, D: 04-13-1994, M: MAYNIE ALEXANDER;
MEREDITH FRANKLIN, B: 5 APR 1905, D: 04-27-1994, M: BELVA (BELL)
ADKINS ON 04-29-1925, IN CARTER CO., KY.; CLYDE C. B: 03-03-1907, M:
JESSIE ELAM.
7. THOMAS LEADENHAM, B: JULY 26, 1829, ON LEADINGHAM BRANCH,
CARTER CO., KY. MARRIED MARY ANN JUSTICE ON MARCH 25, 1858, IN CARTER
COUNTY, KY., AND HE DIED ON JAN 21, 1915, IN CARTER COUNTY, KY.
8. SARAH LEADENHAM, BORN IN 1832, AND NEVER MARRIED.
9. NANCY LEADENHAM, BORN IN 1834, ON LEADINGHAM BRANCH, CARTER CO. KY, AND MARRIED DAVID LESTER
AROUND 1835, PETER AND SARAH HAMILTON LEADINGHAM, MOVED NORTH FROM FLOYD/PIKE COUNTY TO CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, TO A PLACE WE KNOW OF TODAY, AS LEADINGHAM BRANCH, WHERE PETER AND SARAH RAISED THERE FAMILY, ON A FARM, ON LEADINGHAM BRANCH, THAT HE
NAMED AFTER HIMSELF, AND WHERE HIS CHILDREN ALSO MARRIED, OWNED AND OPERATED FARMS IN THE RICH LITTLE FORK VALLEY, NESTLED BETWEEN THE HILLS OR MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
LEADINGHAM BRANCH, AND LITTLE FORK CREEK IS LOCATED SOUTH ON
ROUTE SEVEN (7) OUT OF GRAYSON, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. TO VISIT
THIS AREA, TAKE INTERSTATE 64 FROM ASHLAND, KENTUCKY TO GRAYSON, AND
TURN SOUTH ON ROUTE 7, AND GO APPROXIMATELY 6 MILES, TO THE GRAYSON
LAKE. TURN LEFT ON STATE ROUTE 1496, AND GO FOUR (4) MILES TO
ROUTE 1122. TURN RIGHT ON ROUTE 1122. GO A MILE AND A HALF, AND
LEADINGHAM BRANCH IS ON YOUR RIGHT. THE FIRST ROAD TO THE RIGHT AFTER YOU TURN ON 1122, IS MEADOWS BRANCH. LEADINGHAM BRANCH IS THE SECOND RIGHT.
MY FATHER, MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM, WAS A GREAT-GRAND SON OF PETER LEADENHAM AND SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON LEADENHAM, AND WAS BORN ON APRIL 5, 1905, IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. REV. M.F. (MERDIA)
LEADINGHAM LIVED TO THE AGE OF 89, AND DIED IN THE WURTLAND MANOR
NURSING HOME IN WURTLAND, GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY ON APRIL 27, 1994,
AND LAID TO REST IN THE BELLEFONTE MEMORIAL GARDENS IN BELLEFONTE,
GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
HE WAS THE SON OF JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM AND DELILAH JANE WELLS.
HIS GRAND PARENTS WERE WILLIAM THOMAS LEADINGHAM, NAOMI PARSONS
LEADINGHAM, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WELLS AND NANCY ROBINSON WELLS.
HIS GREAT GRAND PARENTS WERE PETER LEADINGHAM, SARAH (SALLY)
HAMILTON LEADINGHAM, HEZEKIAH PARSONS, LEAH DEBORD PARSONS, ROBERT
LEE WELLS, MARY ROBERTS WELLS, EZEKIEL ROBINSON, AND SABRA CASTNER
ROBINSON.
HIS GREAT-GREAT-GRAND PARENTS WERE WILLIAM LEADENHAM, ELIZABETH
(UNKNOWN) LEADENHAM, SAMUEL HAMILTON, ELIZA (UNKNOWN) HAMILTON,
WILLIAM PARSONS, SR., MARY (POLLY) CRAIG PARSONS, JAMES ROBINSON,
SALLY TOWNSLEY ROBINSON, JACOB ROBINSON, AND MALINDA MULLENS ROBINSON.
REV. M.F. LEADINGHAM ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT BOLING, ELLIOTT COUNTY, BEACH GROVE AND OAKGROVE, NEAR HITCHENS, AND MUSIC, IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
HE WORKED ON THE RAILROAD THAT RAN FROM ASHLAND, BOYD COUNTY,
THROUGH MUSIC, CARTER COUNTY, AND ON TO SANDY HOOK AND LEXINGTON,
KENTUCKY. RAN A STEAM ENGINE, THAT DRILLED FOR COAL, AND CLAY IN THE
HILLS AROUND MUSIC, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. FOR ONE YEAR, WHEN HE WAS 18 YEARS OLD, HE ALSO WORKED A STEAM ENGINE IN AND AROUND
JACKSONVILLE, OHIO, DRILLING FOR CLAY AND COAL.
M.F. LEADINGHAM MARRIED BELVA (BELL) ADKINS ON APRIL 29, 1925, WHO WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 5, 1907. BELVA IS THE DAUGHTER OF FRANK NEWBERRY ADKINS AND ANNA STEWART ADKINS OF SHANTY BRANCH, WILLIAMS CREEK, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THEY WERE MARRIED AT THE ADKINS HOME PLACE, LOCATED AT GRANT WILLIAMS CREEK AND SHANTY BRANCH. (GRANT WAS THE NAME OF THE RAILROAD STOP, AT THE MOUTH OF WILLIAMS CREEK AND SHANTY BRANCH).
THE ADKINS HOME PLACE, WHERE BELVA (BELL) ADKINS AND REV.
MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM WERE MARRIED, WAS BUILT BY BELVA (BELL)
ADKINS LEADINGHAM'S GRAND FATHER, WISER CARNILUES ADKINS IN 1897, OUT
OF ONE POPULAR TREE, HE CUT IN PICKLE HOLLOW, ON HIS FARM HE PURCHASED NEXT TO HIS FATHER, ISAAC ADKINS, IN THE LATE 1800 HUNDREDS. A NEWSPAPER ARTICLED PUBLISHED IN 1960, STATED THAT THE POPULAR TREE
THAT WISER BUILT HIS HOUSE OUT OF WAS 250 YEARS OLD, OVER 200 FEET
TALL, SEVEN FEET IN DIAMETER AT THE BASE. THE ARTICLE ALSO STATED,
IT TOOK THREE DAYS TO CUT IT DOWN, WITH A CROSS CUT SAW, HAULED TO A
SAW MILL A MILE ABOVE THE HOUSE SITE.
BELVA (BELL) ADKINS'S GREAT GRAND PARENTS, ISAAC ADKINS AND POLLY
LUSK, WERE BORN IN VIRGINIA IN 1803, AND MIGRATED FROM VIRGINIA TO
SHANTY BRANCH, IN 1833, WHERE THEIR THIRD CHILD, DANIEL WAS BORN IN
1835.
THE ARTICLE WENT ON TO SAY THAT HER GRAND FATHER, WISER LEFT SHANTY
BRANCH, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AT THE AGE OF 16 YEARS OLD, AND
WAS A INDIAN SCOUT, (SINCE WISER WAS BORN IN 1840, THIS MEANS THAT HE
LEFT SHANTY BRANCH, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY IN 1856), AND TRAVELED AS
FAR WEST AS CALIFORNIA, BEFORE HE RETURNED TO GEORGIA AND MARRIED
MARGARET JANE WILLIAMS, IN RANDOLPH COUNTY, GEORGIA IN 1859. RECORDS
SHOW THAT WISER AND MARGARET JANE WILLIAMS MOVED WEST TO MISSOURI,
WHERE SOME OF THEIR CHILDREN WERE BORN, PRIOR TO MOVING BACK TO CARTER COUNTY, WHERE HE PURCHASED A FARM NEXT TO HIS FATHERS IN THE LATE 1800 HUNDREDS, AND BUILT THE ADKINS HOME PLACE IN 1897, WHERE BELVA (BELL) ADKINS WAS BORN, RAISED AND MARRIED MEREDITH FRANKLIN
LEADINGHAM.
MEREDITH FRANKLIN AND BELVA ADKINS STARTED HOUSE KEEPING, IN A
RENTED HOUSE, UP THE HOLLOW, BEHIND HIS DAD'S HOUSE AT MUSIC, CARTER
COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND WITHIN TWO WEEKS, THE HOUSE CAUGHT FIRE, FROM A HOT SPARK, FROM THE FIRE PLACE, AND BURNED THE HOUSE TO THE GROUND AND EVERY THING THAT THEY OWNED. THEY LIVED WITH BELVA ADKINS'S PARENTS, WHILE THEY SEARCHED FOR ANOTHER HOUSE TO LIVE IN. WHILE STAYING WITH HER PARENTS, THERE FIRST CHILD, BEATRICE "BEA" AS SHE WAS CALLED WAS BORN JANUARY 28, 1926. BEA TOLD ME, MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM, HER BROTHER IN JANUARY OF 2000, THAT DAD RODE A MULE FROM SHANTY BRANCH TO RUSH ABOUT FOUR MILES OVER
THE MOUNTAINS TO GET DOCTOR BAILEY TO COME OVER TO SHANTY BRANCH AND DELIVER HER.
THEY RENTED ANOTHER HOUSE UP THE ROAD, ON WILLIAMS CREEK ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE FROM MUSIC, IN THE SUMMER OF 1926, WHERE THE NEXT FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN.
M.F. AND BELVA LIVED IN AND AROUND MUSIC, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY FROM 1925, TILL THE SUMMER OF 1936.
MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM SAID, THAT A MID WIFE BY THE NAME OF
MRS. CRUM, WHO WAS 80 YEARS OLD, AND HAD DELIVERED OVER 1,000 BABIES, WALKED FIVE MILES TO DELIVER THEIR FIRST FIVE CHILDREN.
THEIR FIRST FIVE CHILDREN, WERE BORN DURING THE 1925 TO 1936
PERIOD, WHEN THEY LIVED AT SHANTY BRANCH AND MUSIC, CARTER COUNTY,
KENTUCKY:
1. HERMIA (BEA) BEATRICE, BORN JANUARY 28, 1926, AT THE ADKINS HOME PLACE ON SHANTY BRANCH, CARTER CO.,KY. BEA MARRIED EDWARD LEE ROUSE ON SEPTEMBER 20, 1946, IN ERLANGER, KENTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS:
ANNA LEE ROUSE, BORN AUGUST 10, 1947, AND MARRIED JOSEPH CARROLL
EARNHARDT ON JULY 2, 1967, IN KERNERSVILLE, N.C., AND THEY HAD THREE
DAUGHTERS: COLLEEN MARIE, (ADOPTED), BORN JULY 9, 1977; CRISTEN
MICHELLE, BORN JULY 26, 1981; CARRIE ELIZABETH, BORN DECEMBER
20, 1984.
SHARON LYNN ROUSE, BORN OCTOBER 31, 1953, IN COVINGTON, KY., AND
MARRIED LARRY DUANE JORDAN ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1975, IN KERNERSVILLE,
N.C., AND THEY HAD THREE SONS: ROCKFORD MANLEY, BORN APRIL 17, 1984;
NICHOLAS STERLING, BORN JULY 25, 1990; CHRISTOPHER JAY, BORN JULY 13,
1992.
2. IMOGENE (JEAN), BORN FEBRUARY 5, 1928, ON LICK CREEK, CARTER CO., KY.
SHE MARRIED CARL ELLIOTT ON NOVEMBER 25, 1949, IN ASHLAND, BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
JEAN AND CARL HAD TWO DAUGHTERS: DONNA CAROL, BORN FEBRUARY 17, 1951, IN DAYTON, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, OHIO, AND SHE MARRIED BILLY JOE BECKETT ON OCTOBER 19, 1974, IN WAYNESVILLE, OHIO. DONNA AND BILLY HAD TWO SONS:
BRADLEY SCOTT, BORN AUGUST 26, 1979; BRETT ROBERT, BORN JULY 26, 1982
KATHIE-JO, BORN MARCH 3, 1953, IN GREENE COUNTY, OHIO, AND MARRIED
TWO TIMES, FIRST TO GERALD (GARY) WINTERS, ON FEBRUARY 28, 1969, IN
WAYNESVILLE, OHIO, AND THEY HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: JULIE ANN,
BORN MAY 10, 1971; JENNIFER LEIGHT, BORN MAY 14, 1974; JAMIE LYNN,
BORN OCTOBER 8, 1975. KATHIE-JO ELLIOTT MARRIED A SECOND TIME TO
RICHARD EDMOND JAMES, ON MAY 19, 1988, IN LEBANON, OHIO. KATHIE-JO
AND RICHARD EDMOND JAMES DO NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN AS OF 1992. JULIE
ANN WINTERS MARRIED CLAYTON BROWN TOLLER, ON MAY 1, 1991, IN LEBANON,
OHIO, AND THEY HAD ONE CHILD, BROOKE NICHOLE TOLLER, BORN ON APRIL 25,
1991.
3. JOSEPH EARL (JOE), B: FEBRUARY 5, 1930, ON LICK CREEK, CARTER CO., KY.
HE DIED ON JANUARY 21, 1994, AT HIS HOME IN ERLANGER, KENTUCKY, AND IS BURIED IN THE ERLANGER MEMORIAL GARDENS. JOE MARRIED LOIS LEE ELAM, ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1953, IN COVINGTON, KENTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
JOE AND LOIS HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: COLLEEN MARIE, B: OCTOBER
7, 1954, IN COVINGTON, KENTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. MARRIED STEV
HEDGES ON AUGUST 18, 1973. THEIR CHILDREN ARE BREANNIE MARIE, B:
NOVEMBER 20, 1980; LOREN ELIZABETH, B: SEPTEMBER 6, 1983, AND
HEATHER RENEE, B: DECEMBER 16, 1985.
JOSEPH EARL LEADINGHAM, JR., B: AUGUST 20, 1958, IN COVINGTON,
KENTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, MARRIED BETTY JO TURNER ON MAY 11, 1985,
IN ERLANGER, KENTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. JOE, JR. AND BETTY JO TURNER
LEADINGHAM HAD ONE SON, KYLE JOSEPH, B: OCTOBER 22, 1987. THEIR THIRD
CHILD WAS MELISSA ANN, B: MAY 7, 1961, IN COVINGTON, KENTON COUNTY,
KENTUCKY. M: JOHN CHRISTOPHER WETHERELL ON JANUARY 12, 1980, IN
ERLANGER, KENTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THEY HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, AMY NICOLE, B: JULY 5, 1980, AND JAMIE LEE, B: NOVEMBER 2, 1987.
4. MEREDITH PAUL (PAUL), BORN JULY 8, 1932, ON LICK CREEK, CARTER CO., KY.
HE MARRIED BETTY DORIS FANNIN OF GREENUP, GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY, ON OCTOBER 14, 1954, IN OLIVE HILL, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. (MARRIAGE LICENSE PURCHASED IN GREENUP, GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY).
PAUL AND BETTY DORIS FANNIN LEADINGHAM HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN:
DEBBIE LYNN, BORN JULY 26, 1955, AT THE WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL
CENTER, LOCATED IN WASHINGTON, D.C., WHILE HER FATHER WAS STATIONED
AT ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MARYLAND. DEBBIE LYNN MARRIED HARRY
FRANCIS SUNDSTROM, JR. ON JUNE 23, 1984, IN THE FREDERICKTOWN
BAPTIST CHURCH, IN WALKERSVILLE, MARYLAND. DEBBIE LYNN GRADUATED FROM THOMAS JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL IN FREDERICK, MARYLAND IN 1973, AND FROM HOOD COLLEGE, IN FREDERICK, MARYLAND IN 1979, WITH A DEGREE IN HOME ECONOMICS AND ELEMENTARY EDUCATION. DEBBIE LYNN AND HARRY (BUD) SUNDSTROM OWN AND OPERATE THEIR OWN PLUMBING BUSINESS IN CAPE MAY, NEW JERSEY, AND THEY HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: SARAH ASHLEY, BORN MAY 4, 1987, ROY MEREDITH, BORN JULY 25, 1989, AND REBECCA LYNN, BORN OCTOBER 26, 1991.
PAULA SUSAN LEADINGHAM, BORN NOVEMBER 21, 1961, IN THE FREDERICK
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, FREDERICK, FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND, AND SHE
MARRIED JAMES SCOTT AGNEW ON SEPTEMBER 17, 1988, IN THE FREDERICKTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH, WALKERSVILLE, FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND. PAULA AND JIM AGNEW HAD ONE SON, JOSHUA SCOTT AGNEW, BORN NOVEMBER 25, 1991, AND A DAUGHTER HANNAH LEE AGNEW BORN ON FEBRUARY 26, 1996.
PAULA GRADUATED FROM THOMAS JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL, FREDERICK, MARYLAND IN 1979, FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WITH AA IN DENTAL ASSISTANCE, IN 1981, FROM ALLEGHENY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, LOCATED IN CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND, WITH A DEGREE IN DENTAL HYGIENE IN 1982, AND FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, IN 1988, WITH A DEGREE IN DENTAL HEALTH. HER HUSBAND JAMES SCOTT AGNEW RECEIVED HIS DEGREE IN EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY, FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND IN 1988.
DORIS JANE LEADINGHAM, BORN DECEMBER 8, 1963, IN THE FREDERICK
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, LOCATED IN FREDERICK, FREDERICK COUNTY, MARYLAND.
DORIS JANE MARRIED KENNETH NEIL FILLER ON JUNE 28, 1986, IN THE
FREDERICKTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH, WALKERSVILLE, FREDERICK COUNTY,
MARYLAND. DORIS JANE AND KENNETH FILLER HAD TWO CHILDREN, JENA
ELIZABETH, BORN OCTOBER 12, 1990, AND KENNETH PAUL, BORN AUGUST
14, 1992. DORIS JANE GRADUATED FROM THOMAS JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL IN
FREDERICK, MARYLAND IN 1981, AND FROM SHEPHERD COLLEGE, LOCATED IN
SHEPHERDS TOWN, WEST VIRGINIA, WITH A DEGREE IN COMPUTER SINCE AND
BUSINESS IN 1985. HER HUSBAND, KENNETH NEIL FILLER, GRADUATED FROM MT.
SAINT MARYS COLLEGE, IN EMMITSBURG, MARYLAND, IN 1985, WITH A
DEGREE IN FINANCE AND BUSINESS.
MARK PAUL LEADINGHAM, BORN NOVEMBER 3, 1969, IN THE FREDERICK
MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, FREDERICK, MARYLAND. GRADUATED FROM THOMAS
JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL IN 1986, FROM FREDERICK COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN 1988, AND FROM SHEPHERD COLLEGE, IN 1992, WITH A DEGREE IN BUSINESS.
FROM JANUARY 27, 1992, TILL NOVEMBER 29 1992, HE MANAGED THE MENS
DEPARTMENT, AT THE JCPENNY STORE, IN THE VALLEY MALL, HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND.
ON NOVEMBER 30, 1992, HE ASSUMED HIS NEW POSITION, MANAGING THE HOUSE HOLD AND LADIES DEPARTMENTS IN THE JCPENNYS STORE, AT THE APPLE BLOSSOM MALL, IN WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA. MARK MARRIED JEANETTE MAE NORWOOD ON JULY 10, 1993, IN DAVIS WV. THEIR FIRST SON MARK PAUL II, WAS BORN ON MARCH 1, 1996. HE WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE JCPENNY STORE, READING, PA., MARCH OF 1998. THEIR SECOND SON, CHARLES BRYANT WAS BORN ON MAY 19, 1998, AND THEIR THIRD SON, ALEX DELANEY WAS
BORN ON DECEMBER 12, 2000 IN THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL, HAGERSTOWN, MD. THEIR FOURTH CHILD, HELEN CECELIA LEADINGHAM WAS BORN ON MARCH 13, 2002, IN THE WASHINGTON COUNTY HOSPITAL, HAGERSTOWN, MD. IN 2002 THEY OWN A HOUSE IN SHARPSBURG, MD.
5. JESSIE FRANKLIN (JESSIE), BORN JUNE 19, 1934, ON LICK CREEK, CARTER CO., KY.
HE MARRIED BETTY CONLEY, ON DECEMBER 19, 1953, IN GREENUP, GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
JESSE GRADUATED FROM THE GREENUP HIGH SCHOOL IN 1952, WHERE HE WAS
AN EXCEPTIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYER. UPON GRADUATION, HE STARTED
WORKING FOR THE ARMCO STEEL CORPORATION, LOCATED IN ASHLAND, BOYD
COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE HE STILL WORKS IN 1992. HE AND BETTY LIVE AT
1408 RIVERSIDE DRIVE IN GREENUP, IN A HOUSE HE BUILT IN 1961, AND.
RAISED TWO BOYS. STEVEN (STEV) FRANKLIN, BORN ON FEBRUARY 7, 1955, IN ASHLAND,
BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY. STEV MARRIED REBECCA LYNN ADKINS ON AUGUST 7, 1982,
IN GREENUP COUNTY, KENTUCKY. STEV AND REBECCA HAD TWO
CHILDREN: KELSEY SAMARA, BORN MAY 14, 1987, AND LYNDSEY JORDAN, BORN
MAY 2, 1990. THEIR SECOND SON WAS WILLIAM ANTHONY (TONEY), BORN IN
1957, AND MARRIED CHERYL BROWN. TONEY AND CHERLY HAD ONE DAUGHTER,
SARAH JANE LEADINGHAM. SARAH JANE LEADINGHAM HAS ONE DAUGHTER KATLYN NICHOLE
LEADINGHAM BORN NOVEMBER 8, 1999, IN KDMC, ASHLAND, BOYD CO., KY.
REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM WAS THE PASTOR OF SEVERAL
WESLEYAN, AND PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCHES, OF EASTERN KENTUCKY, FOR
MORE THAN 39 YEARS.
HIS FIRST CHURCH WAS IN MCANDREWS, PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE
HE ASSUMED HIS DUTIES IN THE SUMMER OF 1936, AND PASTORED TILL THE
SUMMER OF 1939. DURING THIS PERIOD THEIR SIXTH CHILD WAS BORN.
6. JOYCE ANN, BORN MAY 7, 1937, AT MCANDREWS, PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
AND MARRIED LEON EMERSON THOMPSON ON JULY 19, 1958, IN FALMOUTH,
PENDLETON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. JOYCE AND LEON THOMPSON HAD TWO SONS: JEFFREY
LOWELL, BORN FEBRUARY 21, 1962; TODD EMERSON, BORN, MAY 28, 1964. JEFFREY
LOWELL MARRIED ANGELA YVONNE COOK, ON OCTOBER 6, 1990, IN THOMASVILLE, NORTH
CAROLINA. TODD EMERSON, IS UNWED AS OF NOVEMBER 1992.
JOYCE ANN IS A NURSE AND HOME MAKER, AND HER HUSBAND IS THE PASTOR
OF THE THOMASVILLE WESLEYAN CHURCH, THOMASVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1939, REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM, BELVA
(BELL) ADKINS LEADINGHAM, AND THEIR SIX CHILDREN, MOVED 200 MILES
NORTH, TO BRACKEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE HE ASSUMED HIS PASTORAL
DUTIES AT THE SALEM RIDGE PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH. THEY LIVED IN A
RENTED HOUSE ON TURNER RIDGE (SINCE THE HOUSE WAS ON A HIGH KNOLL, HE
NAMED THE HOUSE SITE, GOBBLERS KNOB), WHILE THE HOUSE BY THE SALEM
RIDGE CHURCH WAS BEING BUILT.
THE HOUSE THEY WERE RENTING WAS IN VERY POOR CONDITION, AND THE
WINTER OF 1939 AND 1940, WAS EXTREMELY COLD, THE SNOW DRIFTED OVER THE
FENCE POSTS, AND BLEW THROUGH THE CRACKS IN THE OLD HOUSE. THE ONLY
HEAT CAME FROM A WOOD FIRED, POT BELLY STOVE IN ONE ROOM, AND THE
STOVE THAT WAS USED FOR COOKING THE MEALS IN THE KITCHEN, SO THE REST
OF THE HOUSE WAS VERY COLD, AND ICE FROZE IN THE WATER BUCKET, DURING
THE COLD WINTER NIGHTS. BUT, THE HAND MADE QUILTS AND THE FEATHER BED
MATTRESS KEPT THE CHILDREN AND THEM WARM, TILL THE POT BELLY STOVE
WAS FIRED UP IN THE MORNINGS.
IN THE SPRING OF 1940, LAWRENCE EVERETT, THEIR SEVENTH CHILD WAS
BORN.
7. LAWRENCE EVERETT, BORN APRIL 30, 1940, ON TURNER RIDGE (GOBBLERS
KNOB), BRACKEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND MARRIED EMMA JEAN MARSHALL, FROM
FALMOUTH, ON MARCH 23, 1963, IN FALMOUTH, PENDLETON COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
LAWRENCE AND JEAN HAD TWO SONS, AND ONE DAUGHTER.
LAWRENCE TIMOTHY, BORN AUGUST 2, 1964; VICKEE LYNN, BORN APRIL 16,
1966; JASON ANDREW, BORN SEPTEMBER 23, 1976.
LAWRENCE TIMOTHY MARRIED PAMELA JANE SHEWMAKER ON JULY 1, 1989, IN
HENDERSON, HENDERSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THEY HAD A DAUGHTER,
SHELBY GENEVA LEADINGHAM, BORN JUNE 8, 1992, AND A SON KYLE TIMOTHY,
BORN IN APRIL OF 1994.
VICKEE LYNN MARRIED DAVID ANTHONY ROBERTS, ON JULY 27, 1985, IN
BUTLER, PENDLETON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. VICKEE AND DAVID DO NOT HAVE ANY
CHILDREN AS OF NOVEMBER 1992.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1940, REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN, BELVA ADKINS
LEADINGHAM AND THEIR SEVEN CHILDREN MOVED FROM GOBBLERS KNOB TO SALEM
RIDGE, BRACKEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, INTO THE NEW PARSONAGE (HOUSE) BESIDE
THE SALEM RIDGE PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH, AND IN THE FALL OF THAT YEAR,
THE FIRST FIVE, OF THEIR CHILDREN, ENROLLED IN THE WESTERN HILL
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LOCATED NORTH OF SALEM RIDGE, ON ROUTE 10, ABOUT
SEVEN MILES AWAY. WHILE THE FIRST FIVE CHILDREN WERE IN SCHOOL, BELVA
ADKINS LEADINGHAM WAS BUSY, TAKEN CARE OF JOYCE AND LAWRENCE EVERETT,
WHILE MEREDITH FRANKLIN WAS BUSY HARVESTING THE LARGE GARDEN, HE HAD
RAISED BEHIND THE SALEM RIDGE CHURCH, TO FEED THEIR LARGE FAMILY
DURING THE SUMMER AND WINTER OF 1940 AND 1941.
TIMES WERE HARD FOR THEM, ON THE WIND SWEPT RIDGE, IN THE COUNTRY
SEVERAL MILES FROM THE CLOSEST TOWN AND ISOLATED FROM CIVILIZATION,
EXCEPT FOR THE FEW FARMS, THAT DOTED THE HIGH RIDGES OF NORTHERN
KENTUCKY. SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930'S WAS STILL VERY BAD
FOR ALL WORKING PEOPLE AND FARMERS OF THE UNITED STATES. THE STOCK
MARKET HAD CRASHED, BANKS HAD CLOSED, CAUSING CUSTOMERS TO LOSE ALL
THEIR MONEY. FROM 1929 THROUGH 1941, FACTORIES CLOSED, PEOPLE WERE
MOVING WEST TO FIND WORK, AND MILLIONS STOOD IN SOUP LINES, IN THE
CITIES. BUT, DUE TO MEREDITH FRANKLIN, LIVING IN THE COUNTRY, BEING
ABLE TO RAISE A LARGE GARDEN, PURCHASING A COW FOR MILK, AND BELVA
ADKINS LEADINGHAM, CANNING SEVERAL HUNDRED QUARTS OF GREEN BEANS,
BLACK BERRIES, TOMATOES AND ALL THE GARDEN VEGETABLES, THE FAMILY HAD
ENOUGH TO EAT. BUT, THE CHILDREN DID DO NOT KNOWN, NOR DID THEY
UNDERSTAND THE HARDSHIPS, THEIR PARENTS WENT THROUGH RAISING THE LARGE
FAMILY, DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF THE 1930 AND EARLY 1940. WORK
GOT BETTER, DUE TO WORLD WAR 11, STARTING ON DECEMBER 7, 1941. BUT,
MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM BEING A SMALL RURAL CHURCH PASTOR, IT WAS
VERY DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO PROVIDE FOOD, CLOTHING AND SHELTER FOR
THEIR LARGE FAMILY. SOME HOW THEY ACCOMPLISHED THE VERY DIFFICULT JOB
OF RAISING THEIR FAMILY.
HE PASTORED THE SALEM RIDGE PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH FROM THE
SUMMER OF 1939 TILL THE SUMMER OF 1942, AND IT WAS DURING THIS PERIOD
THAT PATTIE SUE LEADINGHAM, THEIR EIGHT CHILD WAS BORN ON JULY 25,
1942:
8. PATTIE SUE (PAT), BORN JULY 25, 1942, IN THE SALEM RIDGE CHURCH
PARSONAGE, BRACKEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND MARRIED LARRY NORMAN FREEMAN
ON AUGUST 25, 1961, IN FALMOUTH, PENDLETON COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
PAT AND REV. LARRY NORMAN FREEMAN HAD ONE SON AND ONE DAUGHTER:
KIMBERLY DAWN, BORN MAY 5, 1966, AND MARRIED DAVID BRUCE RUSSELL
ON JUNE 10, 1988, IN PINELLAS PARK, FLORIDA. KIMBERLY AND DAVID HAVE
ONE DAUGHTER MEREDITH DAWN RUSSELL (ADOPTED), BORN JANUARY 16, 1992.
BRENT NORMAN FREEMAN, BORN MAY 22, 1970, IN SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA
AND MARRIED GIOVANNI GIGLIA ON JULY 14, 1990, IN PINELLAS PARK,
FLORIDA. BRENT AND GIOVANNI DO NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN AS OF 1994.
PAT AND LARRY PASTOR THE PINELLAS PARK WESLEYAN CHURCH, LOCATED IN
PINELLAS PARK, FLORIDA, AS OF 1992.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1942, MEREDITH FRANKLIN, BELVA ADKINS LEADINGHAM
AND THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN MOVED INTO A RENTED HOUSE ABOUT TWO MILES
OUT SIDE OF FALMOUTH, PENDLETON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, SINCE HE HAD
EXCEPTED THE FALMOUTH PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH, LOCATED ON MAINE STREET
IN FALMOUTH.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1943, THEY RENTED ANOTHER HOUSE, TWO MILES
FURTHER OUT IN THE COUNTY, WHICH WAS MUCH LARGER, WITH AN UPSTAIRS AND
PLENTY OF ROOM FOR THEIR EIGHT CHILDREN TO ROAM AND PLAY, AND SEVERAL
ACRES OF LAND TO RAISE A VERY LARGE GARDEN, WITH A BARN TO HOUSE THE
MILK COW, THAT WAS SO IMPORTANT FOR THE GROWING FAMILY, YES THERE WAS
ALSO ROOM IN THE BARN FOR THE HOGS, HE RAISED FOR MEAT, AND A CHICKEN
HOUSE TO RAISE THE FRYING CHICKENS AND HENS WHICH PRODUCED THE EGGS
AND THE FRIED CHICKEN FOR SUNDAY DINNER. TIMES WERE GOOD, BUT HARD
FOR MEREDITH FRANKLIN AND BELVA, PASTURING THE CHURCH, RAISING THEIR
LARGE FAMILY, PLANTING AND TENDING THE LARGE GARDEN, MILKING THE
COW, SLOPPING THE HOGS, AND FEEDING THE CHICKENS. AND HIS WIFE, BELVA
ADKINS LEADINGHAM, CANNING ALL THOSE VEGETABLES FOR THE COMING WINTER.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1945, THEY MOVED INTO A HOUSE HE HAD PURCHASED
FOR THE CHURCH PARSONAGE, LOCATED ON WILSON STREET, IN FALMOUTH,
PENDLETON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. (WILSON STREET IN LOCATED BETWEEN ROUTE 27
AND THE CEMETERY).
DURING THE SUMMER ON 1947, THEIR NINTH CHILD, DONALD RAY WAS
BORN:
9. DONALD RAY (DON), BORN JUNE 2, 1947, IN FALMOUTH, PENDLETON
COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND MARRIED TWO TIMES, FIRST TO DARLENE LOUISE
GUNTER ON NOVEMBER 12, 1966, IN ODESSA, TEXAS, WHILE HE WAS STATIONED
AT WEBB AFB, TEXAS, AND SECOND TO JONI FORREST, ON JANUARY 14,
1984, IN ODESSA, TEXAS.
DON AND DARLENE HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN:
MICHAEL RAY, BORN DECEMBER 25, 1968, AT LOCKBURN AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO,
GRADUATED FROM ODESSA HIGH SCHOOL, ODESSA, TEXAS, IN 1986, WORKED FOR
HIS FATHER AS A ELECTRICIAN TILL 1991, WHEN HE ENROLLED IN COLLEGE AT
THE ODESSA COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
TERESA GAIL, BORN FEBRUARY 26, 1971, IN COVINGTON, KENTON COUNTY,
KENTUCKY. TERESA GAIL GRADUATED FROM ODESSA HIGH SCHOOL, IN ODESSA,
TEXAS IN 1989, AND HAS ONE SON, CHRISTOPHER ALLEN LEADINGHAM, BORN
MAY 21, 1990, AMANDA MARIE BOON BORN JULY 21, 1992 IN ODESSA TEXAS.
TERESA MARRIED FIRST TO KEVIN ROQUEMORE ABOUT 1990 IN ODESSA , TEXAS, AND
2ND TO WILLIAM HIKES BOON ON MAY 2, 1993, IN ODESSA, TEXAS, AND THIRD TO
BARRY KRAMER ON DEC 1, 1996 IN ODESSA TEXAS.
BRIAN KEITH, BORN JANUARY 6, 1974, IN COVINGTON, KENTON
COUNTY, KENTUCKY, GRADUATED FROM ODESSA HIGH SCHOOL, IN ODESSA, TEXAS IN 1992.
ANGELA MARIE, BORN JUNE 16, 1976, IN COVINGTON, KENTON COUNTY,
KENTUCKY, AND LIVES WITH HER PARENTS IN ODESSA, TEXAS AS OF 1992.
DONALD RAY DOES NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN BY HIS SECOND WIFE AS OF 1992.
DONALD RAY LEDINGHAM, AGE 51 DIED ON DECEMBER 18, 1998 OF A MASSIVE
HEART ATTACK WHILE SLEEPING AND IS BURIED IN THE ODESSA, TEXAS CEMETERY.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1948, HE MOVED HIS FAMILY TO GREENUP, GREENUP
COUNTY, KENTUCKY WHERE HE PASTORED THE GREENUP PILGRIM HOLINESS
CHURCH, TILL THE SUMMER OF 1953. IT WAS DURING THIS TIME, THEIR
TENTH CHILD, CHARLES DAVID WAS BORN:
10. CHARLES DAVID (DAVID), BORN ON AUGUST 30, 1949, IN THE KINGS
DAUGHTER HOSPITAL, LOCATED IN ASHLAND, BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND
DAVID MARRIED MARY MARGARET BARNES ON JUNE 11, 1977, IN COVINGTON,
KENTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. DAVID AND MARY DO NOT HAVE ANY CHILDREN.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1953 THEY MOVED BACK TO FALMOUTH, PENDLETON
COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE HE ASSUMED THE PASTORAL DUTIES AT THE
SAME PILGRIM HOLINESS CHURCH, THAT HE LEFT IN 1948, WHEN HE MOVED TO
GREENUP, KENTUCKY.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1972, HE RETIRED FROM THE MINISTRY, AFTER MORE
THAN 39 YEARS AS A MINISTER IN THE PILGRIM HOLINESS AND THE NEW
WESLEYAN CHURCHES OF EASTER KENTUCKY.
REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN AND BELVA (BELL) ADKINS
LEADINGHAM RETIRED TO 620 FULTON STREET WURTLAND, GREENUP COUNTY,
KENTUCKY, IN THE SUMMER OF 1972, WHERE THEY STILL LIVE AS OF OCTOBER
1992.
DIRECTIONS TO WILLIAMS CREEK AND MUSIC, CARTER COUNTY KENTUCKY.
FROM ASHLAND, BOYD COUNTY KENTUCKY, TAKE ROUTE 60 OR INTERSTATE I 64
WEST TOWARDS GRAYSON. GO APPROXIMATELY 15 MILES TO ROUTE 854, AT
KILGOR AND TURN LEFT ON 854. GO THROUGH RUSH AND KEEP RIGHT ON ROUTE 1654 AND
GO ANOTHER 3 OR 4 MILES AND YOU WILL SEE THE ADKINS HOME PLACE AT
WILLIAMS CREEK, GRANT, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THE HOUSE DID SET BACK
ABOUT 300 YARDS OFF THE ROAD (1654) TURN RIGHT AT FIRST GRAVEL ROAD AND
GO 300 YARDS TO THE FRONT OF WHERE THE HOUSE STOOD TILL 1997 WHEN IT HAD
TO BE TORN DOWN.
THE ADKINS CEMETERY IS ON TOP OF THE HILL TO YOUR RIGHT AS YOU FACE
WHERE THE HOME PLACE STOOD.
COME BACK OUT OF WILLIAMS CREEK FROM THE WHERE THE ADKINS HOME
PLACE WAS AND TURN RIGHT ON ROUTE 1654 AND GO ANOTHER 2 MILES AND YOU WILL
SEE WHERE THE ROAD USED TO CROSS OVER THE OLD RAIL ROAD BED. AT THIS POINT
YOU ARE IN MUSIC. WHEN THEY TOOK OUT THE RAILS, THEY ALSO TOOK THE SIGN DOWN,
THAT SAID "MUSIC". THE HOUSE ON THE RIGHT, AS YOU FACE THE OLD RAIL ROAD BED,
IS WHERE JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM LIVED, WHEN HE WAS OVERSEER OF OVER 2,000 ACRES
OF LAND AND DIED THERE.
THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY IS LOCATED OUT OF GRAYSON, CARTER COUNTY.
KENTUCKY, WHERE JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM, HIS WIFE DELILAH JANE WELLS
(MEREDITH FRANKLIN'S PARENTS), WILLIAM THOMAS LEADINGHAM, HIS WIFE
NAOMI PARSONS LEADINGHAM (JESSE CAUDLE'S PARENTS), ARE BURIED. WE
ALSO, THINK THAT PETER LEADINGHAM AND SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON, THE
PARENTS OF WILLIAM THOMAS, ARE BURIED IN THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY, IN
THE MIDDLE, AT THE HIGHEST POINT, UNDER A LARGE OAK TREE, WITH SEVERAL
MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY. THEIR GRAVES ARE MARKED AT THE HEAD AND FOOT BY
A SAND STONE TAKEN FROM THE SITE, BUT THERE ARE NO MARKINGS, BUT SINCE
THE CEMETERY SETS HIGH ON TOP OF THE HILL OVER LOOKING LEADINGHAM
BRANCH, SITE OF THE ORIGINAL HOME PLACE OF PETER LEADINGHAM AND SARAH
HAMILTON LEADINGHAM, THE FIRST LEADINGHAM SETTLERS OF KENTUCKY. ONE
CAN ONLY ASSUME THAT THESE ARE PETER AND SARAH HAMILTON LEADINGHAM'S
GRAVES AND THERE FAMILY MEMBERS.
TO VISIT THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY. TAKE ROUTE 7 SOUTH OUT OF
GRAYSON FOR APPROXIMATELY 7 MILES TO THE GRAYSON LAKE. TURN LEFT
ON ROUTE 1496, AND GO 4 MILES TO ROUTE 1122. TURN RIGHT AND GO
1 AND 3/4 MILES, (PAST THE ANTIOCH UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH), AND YOU
WILL SEE A BARN ON YOUR LEFT AND A HOUSE ON YOUR RIGHT. A FARM
GATE ON YOUR RIGHT MARKS THE GRAVEL ROAD UP THE HILL TO THE LEADINGHAM
CEMETERY. THE FIRST CEMETERY HALF WAY UP THE HILL, ON YOUR LEFT IS THE
PENNINGTON CEMETERY. THE ROAD STAYS RIGHT AND GOES TO THE TOP OF THE
HILL OR MOUNTAIN TO THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY, WHERE YOU WILL FIND THE
LARGE TREE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CEMETERY. NEAR THE BACK TO
YOUR LEFT (FACING WEST) YOU WILL FIND ONE STONE MARKED LLOYD
LEADINGHAM, AND TO HIS LEFT IS DELILAH JANE WELLS LEADINGHAM, TO HER
LEFT IS JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM, AND TO HIS LEFT IS HIS SECOND WIFE
VIRGIE FRALEY LEADINGHAM. A NEW MONUMENT WAS INSTALLED IN OCTOBER OF 1998 TO
MARK THE GRAVES OF JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM, HIS FIRST WIFE DELILAH JANE WELLS
LEADINGHAM, HIS SECOND WIFE VIRGIE FANNIN FRALEY LEADINGHAM.
THERE ARE OTHER CONNECTED AND ASSOCIATED FAMILY MEMBERS
BURIED IN THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY, SUCH AS STURGILL, JUSTICE AND
PENNINGTON. (NAOMI PARSONS LEADINGHAM'S TOMBSTONE IS MARKED AS NAOMI LEADINGHAM,
AND SHE IS THE WIFE OF WILLIAM THOMAS LEADINGHAM).
IF YOU FACE EAST, YOU WILL SEE LITTLE FORK CREEK AT THE BOTTOM
OF THE HILL WHERE YOU TURNED UP THE ROAD TO THE CEMETERY, AND TO YOUR
LEFT, OVER THE HILL, WILL BE LEADINGHAM BRANCH AND TO YOUR RIGHT
HYLTON BRANCH. FACING WEST AT THE CEMETERY, YOU WILL SEE FLAT LAND
THAT RUNS FOR ABOUT A MILE, AND IS KNOW AS STURGILL FLATS, WHERE THE
STURGILL FAMILY SETTLED AND RAISED THERE FAMILY.
REV. M.F. LEADINGHAM DIED IN THE WURTLAND, GREENUP COUNTY,
KENTUCKY NURSING HOME ON APRIL 27, 1994, AND IS BURIED IN THE
BELLEFONTE MEMORIAL GARDENS, IN BELLEFONTE, GREENUP COUNTY,
KENTUCKY.
INFORMATION OBTAINED FORM:
1. REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN AND BELVA (BELL) ADKINS LEADINGHAM, PARENTS OF THE AUTHOR
MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM, OF FREDERICK, MD.
2. CHILDREN OF MEREDITH FRANKLIN AND BELVA ADKINS LEADINGHAM.
3. GRAND CHILDREN OF MEREDITH FRANKLIN AND BELVA ADKINS LEADINGHAM.
4. 1850 CENSUS OF CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY (ISAAC ADKINS FAMILY).
5. BOOK WRITTEN BY WILLIAM C. KOZEE, DATED 1979. TITLED FAMILIES OF
EASTERN AND SOUTH EASTERN KENTUCKY.
6. BIRTH, MARRIAGES, AND DEATH RECORDS OF LAWRENCE, ELLIOTT, MAGOFFIN
GREENUP AND CARTER COUNTIES OF KENTUCKY.
7. RECORDS OBTAINED FROM HEAD STONES IN THE PENNINGTON AND LEADINGHAM
CEMETERIES OF CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
5. ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN THE KENTUCKY COURIER IN 1960, ABOUT THE
ADKINS HOME PLACE AND STORY ON WISER ADKINS BEING AN INDIAN SCOUT.
6. SOUTH CAROLINA ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, LOCATED IN COLUMBIA, SOUTH
CAROLINA.
7. 1866 CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY TAX LIST.
8. FROM DONNA SUE PENNINGTON BRYANT OF ASHLAND, BOYD CO., KY IN 1992.
9. HISTORY COMPILED, WRITTEN, AND COMPUTERIZED BY MEREDITH PAUL
LEADINGHAM OF 201 EAST 8TH STREET, FREDERICK, MARYLAND, 21701, IN
NOVEMBER OF 1992 AND UPDATED IN MAY OF 1994, AFTER THE DEATH OF
REV. MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM ON 27 APRIL 1994 AND HIS SON
JOSEPH EARL LEADINGHAM, SR., ON JANUARY 21, 1994.
10. EDITED IN JANUARY OF 2000, AND DECEMBER OF 2001.
COPYRIGHT IN 2001 IN THE PAUL LEADINGHAM AND ALLIED FAMILIES GENEALOGY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE AUTHOR AND FAMILY MEMBERS.