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      1. Peter3 Leadenham (Stafford "unconfirmed"2, William1) was born 1785 in Camden District, SC., and died 02 Mar 1856 in Carter CO., KY.. He married Sarah (Sally) Hamilton Abt. 1813 in Pike CO., Ky., daughter of Samuel Hamilton and Elizabeth Harper. She was born 1795 in Hawkins, CO., Tennessee, and died 01 Jan 1864 in Carter CO., KY..

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SHORT HISTORY AND DESCENDANTS AS OF 2008.

PETER LEADINGHAM WAS BORN IN 1785, IN SOUTH CAROLINA, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1850 DISTRICT 1 CENSUS, OF CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
HIS NAME IS SPELLED LEADENHAM ON OTHER RECORDS. SOME OF HIS CHILDREN CARRY THE NAME LEADINGHAM, AND OTHERS ARE RECORDED AS LEADENHAM. ALSO THE CARTER CO., KY. VITAL STATISTICS AND DEATH NOTICES OF 1858-MICROFILM PAGE D-29 STATES HIS NAME AS PETER LEADENHAM, AGE 65, MICROFILM PAGE D-29, BORN S.C. SON OF ELIZABETH LEADENHAM.
ACCORDING TO THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, ABOUT A DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH PLACE-NAMES, THE SURNAME OF LEDENHAM WAS PUBLISHED IN TH 1086 DOMESDAY BOOK. PROBABLY MEANS "HOMESTEAD OR VILLAGE OF A MAN CALLED "'LEODA". OLD ENGLISH PERSONAL NAME (GENITIVE-N) + HAM
INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM THE FAMILY TREE MAKER, DISK NUMBER 3, STATES PETER'S FATHER IS ALSO NAMED PETER AND WAS BORN BETWEEN 1734 AND 1763. IF THIS IS TRUE THEN STAFFORD WHO SHOWS UP ON THE 1790 CENSUS OF RICHLAND COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA SHOULD BE THE SON OF WILLIAM LEDENHAM/LEADENHAM, THAT MIGRATED TO SOUTH CAROLINA 1764 AND BUILT OAK GROVE PLANTATION IN RICHLAND DISTRICT, BETWEEN 1764 AND 1772.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM SEVERAL SOURCES STATES THAT THE ORIGINAL OAK GROVE PLANTATION NOW CALLED THE "OAKS" IS LOCATED ABOUT 19 MILES SOUTH EAST OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA BETWEEN THE GARNERS FERRY ROAD AND THE MCCORDS FERRY ROAD, AS IS NEAR THE WATEREE AND CONGAREE RIVERS..
ADDITIONAL RESEARCH HAS FOUND A 1790 RICHLAND CO., SC. CENSUS WHICH SHOWS STAFFORD LEADENHAM HAVING THREE SONS ONE TO SIXTEEN YEARS OLD.
IN JULY OF 1998, I BELIEVE THIS PETER LEADENHAM IS THE SON OF STAFFORD AND ELIZABETH "UNKNOWN" LEADENHAM. I ALSO BELIEVE FROM THE 1790 CENSUS THAT STAFFORD LEADENHAM'S DAD IS WILLIAM LEADENHAM WHO MIGRATED TO SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1764 AND BUILT OAK GROVE PLANTATION.
ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTATION NEEDS TO BE FOUND TO CONFIRM THAT PETER LEADENHAM/LEADINGHAM THAT MIGRATED TO KENTUCKY AROUND 1812 IS THE SON OF STAFFORD, AND THAT STAFFORD IS THE SON OF WILLIAM LEADENHAM WHO WAS BORN ABOUT 1745 AND BUILT OAK GROVE PLANTATION IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
I AM CHANGING THE FATHER OF THIS PETER LEADENHAM, BORN 1785 IN RICHLAND CO., SC. TO STAFFORD LEADENHAM BORN ABOUT 1765 IN RICHLAND CO., SC. AND STAFFORD BEING THE SON OF WILLIAM LEADENHAM WHO MIGRATED FROM MARYLAND, ENGLAND AND/OR SCOTLAND. SOME RESEARCHERS STATE THAT WILLIAM LEADENHAM, BORN ABUT 1745 MIGRATED FROM LEADENHAM, ENGLAND.
SOME RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THAT WILLIAM LEDENHAM WHO WAS BORN JUNE 23, 1745, IN FOSTON, ENGLAND, AND THE SON OF NATHANIEL LEADINGHAM BORN 1722, IN FOSTON, ENGLAND, MIGRATED TO SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1764, AS I FOUND THE LAND GRAND DATED 1764, OF THIS WILLIAM LEADENHAM. THE INFORMATION ON THIS WILLIAM LEADENHAM MIGRATING FROM FOSTON, ENGLAND NEEDS TO BE CONFIRMED. THE WILLIAM LEADENHAM WHO WE THOUGHT WAS OUR ANCESTOR BEING BORN ON JUNE 23, 1745, TURNED OUT TO HAVE NEVER MARRIED AND DIED YOUNG IN FOSTON, ENGLAND, SO HE CAN NOT BE THE CORRECT WILLIAM LEADENHAM. OUR WILLIAM LEADENHAM MAY HAVE MIGRATED FROM SCOTLAND, AND THE SPELLING WOULD BE LEDINGHAM OR LEDENHAM?
I ALSO BELIEVE SONS WILLIAM EDWARD, JOHN AND GEORGE, AND NOW STAFFORD, ARE THE SONS OF WILLIAM WHO MIGRATED TO SOUTH CAROLINA IN 1764. WHERE HE MIGRATED TO SOUTH CAROLINA FROM IS STILL IN QUESTION?
RECORDS ON FILE AT THE SOUTH CAROLINA ARCHIVES OF HISTORY CONFIRM THAT A WILLIAM LEDDINGHAM/LEADENHAM RECEIVED LAND GRANTS IN 1764 IN BERKLEY AND RICHLAND COUNTIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA FROM KING GEROGE III, DATED 1767 . ARCHIVE RECORDS ALSO SHOW THE SON OF WILLIAM LEADENHAM BEING WILLIAM EDWARD WHO INHERITED AND LIVED AT THE ANCESTRAL HOME OF "OAK GROVE PLANTATION" FROM 1783, WHEN HIS DAD DIED TILL HE DIED IN 1823, OR 1825. I CAN'T FIND ANY RECORDS OF OAK GROVE PLANTATION AFTER 1826. BUT JOHN LEDINGHAM, BORN ABOUT 1805 AND DIED 25 FEB 1862 WITH HIS WIFE FRANCES CATHERINE BORN 22 AUG 1814 AND DIED 16 FEB 1886, ALONG WITH 9 OF THEIR CHILDREN ARE BURIED AT THE OAKS PLANTATION LOCATED 19 MILES SOUTH FROM COLUMBIA, SC. NEAR TOM'S CREEK, BETWEEN MCCORD'S FERRY ROAD AND GARNER'S FERRY ROAD AS TOM'S CREEK DRAINS INTO CONGAREE RIVER AND NEAR WATEREE RIVER NEAR HOPKINS POST OFFICE IN RICHLAND COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA..
IN ACCORDANCE WITH INFORMATION PUBLISHED IN A BOOK, WRITTEN BY WILLIAM C. KOZEE, TITLED "EARLY FAMILIES OF EASTERN AND SOUTH EASTERN KENTUCKY", AND PUBLISHED BY THE GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO. INC., IN BALTIMORE, MD., DATED 1979, STATES THAT PETER LEADINGHAM AND SALLY HAMILTON WERE AMONG THE FIRST SETTLERS OF LICKING STATION, LOCATED NEAR PRESENT DAY SALYERSVILLE, KENTUCKY. (SALYERSVILLE WAS IN PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY IN THOSE DAYS, AND NOW MAGOFFIN COUNTY). THEY FINALLY SETTLED IN THE BEND OF THE LITTLE FORK CREEK, ABOVE WILLARD, IN CARTER COUNTY, (CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY WAS A PART OF GREENUP COUNTY BETWEEN 1830 AND 1840, WHEN PETER AND SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON MOVED FROM SALYERSVILLE, KY., AND MOVED NORTH INTO GREENUP COUNTY, WHAT IS NOW CARTER COUNTY, KY., AND SETTLED ON LITTLE FORK CREEK AND LEADINGHAM BRANCH, WHICH PETER NAMED AFTER HIMSELF, AND RAISED HIS FAMILY).
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1825 FLOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY CENSUS,PETER AND SARAH WERE LIVING IN FLOYD COUNTY PRIOR TO MOVING ON NORTH TO CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THAT PETER AND SAMUEL HAMILTON HIS FATHER IN LAW BOTH HAD RECEIVED LAND GRAND OF 50 ACRES EACH IN FLOYD COUNTY, IN 1816/1817 ON LONG FORK OF SHELBY CREEK IN PIKE COUNTY BEFORE THAT PART OF PIKE COUNTY BECAME FLOYD. SO THE QUESTION IS HOW DID PETER RECEIVED A LAND GRANT? DID HE FIGHT IN THE WAR OF 1812? HOW DID HE MIGRATE FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TO KENTUCKY AND FOR WHAT REASON?
WE ALSO KNOW THAT PETER LEADENHAM (SPELLED LEDENHAM ON THE 1840 CENSUS OF CARTER CO., KY.) WAS IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. KENTUCKY PRIOR TO 1840, AND THE CENSUS STATES HE WAS BORN IN SOUTH CAROLINA.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1839 CARTER COUNTY TAX LIST, PETER AND HIS SON JACOB BOTH OWNED LAND IN CARTER COUNTY.
THE FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM THE 1840 CENSUS OF CARTER CO., KY.
PETER LEDENHAM:
1 MALE 40-50.
1 MALE 10-15.
1 MALE 5-10.
I FEMALE 40-50.
1 FEMALE 10-15.
1 FEMALE 15-20.

THE FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM THE 1850 CENSUS OF CARTER CO., KY.
HOUSE # 431 LEDINGHAM, PETER 65 SC.
SARAH 65 VA.     
SARAH IS SARAH "SALLY HAMILTON LEADINGHAM, WIFE OF PETER LEDINGHAM.
HETTY 30 KY.
WILLIAM 24 KY.
THOMAS 22 KY.
SARAH 18 KY.
NANCY 16 KY.

AN ENTRY OF PETER'S SON JACOB IN HOUSE 430 IN 1850.
HOUSE 430 LEDINGHAM: JACOB 34 KY.
FRANCES 29 KY.
MARY 9 KY.
PETER 7 KY.
WILLIAM 5 KY.
SARAH 3 KY.
NANCY 10M KY.
FRANCES IS FRANCES WATSON LEADINGHAM, MOTHER OF ABOVE CHILDREN.

WE DO KNOW FROM FURTHER RESEARCH, THAT PETER WAS THE FIRST LEADINGHAM TO SETTLE IN KENTUCKY, AND THAT HE SETTLED ON LEADINGHAM BRANCH, A BRANCH OFF OF LITTLE FORK CREEK, ABOUT SIX MILES FROM WILLARD, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND THAT THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY IS ON THE ORIGINAL PETER LEADINGHAM FARM, HIGH ON A HILL OVER
LOOKING LEADINGHAM BRANCH, HYLTON BRANCH AND LITTLE FORK CREEK. "IN 1999, LITTLE FORK CREEK ROAD IS KENTUCKY STATE ROUTE 1122".
FROM VISITS TO THIS AREA AND FINDING THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY WHERE PETER AND SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON LEADINGHAM'S SON WILLIAM THOMAS LEADINGHAM, AND HIS WIFE NAOMI PARSONS LEADINGHAM ARE BURIED, AND TALKING WITH FAMILY MEMBERS, THE ORIGINAL FARM OF PETER LEADINGHAM WAS LOCATED ON LEADINGHAM BRANCH (A SMALL STREAM), ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF GRAYSON, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
DIRECTIONS TO LEADINGHAM BRANCH: TAKE INTERSTATE 64 TO GRAYSON, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. TAKE ROUTE 7 SOUTH OUT OF GRAYSON, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY TOWARD THE GRAYSON LAKE, AND TURN LEFT ON ROUTE 1496. GO 4.5 MILES TO ROUTE 1122. TURN RIGHT ON ROUTE 1122 AND GO 1.5 MILES TO LEADINGHAM BRANCH ON YOUR RIGHT. (LEADINGHAM BRANCH ROAD IS THE SECOND RIGHT, MEADOWS BRANCH IS THE FIRST DIRT OR GRAVEL ROAD AFTER YOU TURN ONTO ROUTE 1122. I FOUND ROUTE 1122 BLACK TOPPED IN 1999, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT YEAR IT WAS PAVED).
THE CREEK ON YOUR LEFT AS YOU TRAVEL ON ROUTE 1122, IS LITTLE FORK. THE THIRD RIGHT IS HILTON BRANCH, AND THE FOURTH ROAD TO YOUR RIGHT GOES TO STURGILL FLATS. THIS SHORT ROAD ONLY GOES TO THE STURGILL FARM ON TOP OF THE HILL, BEHIND THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY. THE NEXT ROAD IS WELLS BRANCH, HOME PLACE OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WELLS AND NANCY ROBINSON.
(BENJAMIN FRANKLIN WELLS AND NANCY ROBINSON ARE THE GREAT GRAND PARENTS OF MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM, THE LEADINGHAM FAMILY HISTORIAN AND THE PERSON WHO COMPILED AND DRAFTED THIS BIOGRAPHY OF PETER LEADINGHAM/LEADENHAM).
THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY IS ON TOP OF THE HILL BETWEEN LEADINGHAM BRANCH AND HILTON BRANCH. A FARM GATE ON THE RIGHT, NEXT TO A HOUSE MARKS THE ROAD UP THE HILL TO THE PENNINGTON CEMETERY ON YOUR LEFT, AND ON AT THE TOP OF THE HILL IS THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY, WHERE WE BELIEVE PETER LEADINGHAM, SALLY HAMILTON LEADINGHAM, ARE BURIED. WE DO KNOW THAT WILLIAM THOMAS LEADINGHAM HIS WIFE NAOMI PARSONS LEADINGHAM, JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM, HIS WIFE DELILAH JANE WELLS LEADINGHAM, THERE SON LLOYD LEADINGHAM, ALONG WITH OTHER FAMILIES ARE BURIED. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CEMETERY YOU WILL FIND A VERY LARGE TREE, WHERE WE BELIEVE PETER LEADINGHAM AND SALLY HAMILTON AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILY ARE BURIED, AND THEIR GRAVES ARE MARKED BY SAND STONES, BUT THERE IS NO LETTERING ON THE STONES.
PETER LEADINGHAM MARRIED SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON ABOUT 1812, IN VIRGINIA OR PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY. SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON WAS BORN IN VIRGINIA, BUT OTHER RECORDS SAY SHE WAS BORN IN 1785 IN TENNESSEE.
PETER AND SARAH HAMILTON LEADENHAM HAD THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN:
1. ELIZABETH, BORN IN 1814 IN PIKE CO. KY. MARRIED JOHN H. TACKETT OF PIKE CO. KY. ON AUG 17, 1828, IN PIKE CO. KY. SHE DIED AFTER SEPTEMBER 16, 1881, SINCE SHE WAS A SIGNER ON A DEED OF CONVEYANCE, IN 1881
BETWEEN WILLIAM LEADINGHAM, NAOMI PARSONS LEADINGHAM, MARY LEADINGHAM, SARAH LEADINGHAM, JOHN H. TACKETT (HUSBAND OF ELIZABETH LEADINGHAM), ELIZABETH LEADINGHAM TACKETT, JACOB LEADINGHAM, FRANCES LEADINGHAM, JAMES ROBINSON AND HETTIE LEADINGHAM ROBINSON. WE THINK SHE DIED IN ELLIOTT COUNTY, KENTUCKY. THE MARRIAGE BOND OF ELIZABETH AND JOHN H. TACKETT CAN BE FOUND IN MARRIAGE BONDS OF PIKE COUNTY, DATED 1822 TO 1865, BY CLAUDE RUNYON AND FILE NO. 204, LICENSE ISSUED ON AUGUST 8, 1828. SHE WAS MARRIED BY WILLIAM TACKETT.
2. JACOB (JAKE), BORN IN 1816, "HE WAS 34 ON THE 1850 CARTER CO., Ky CENSUS", IN PIKE CO. KY. MARRIED FRANCES WATSON ON MARY 29, 1839, IN CARTER CO. KY., DIED JUNE 2, 1888, IN CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY. JACOB "JAKE" LEADINGHAM IS BURIED IN THE LEADINGHAM FAMILY CEMETERY HIGH ON THE HILL OVER LOOKING ROUTE 1122 AND LITTLE FORK CREEK. HIS WIFE FRANCES WATSON MUST BE BURIED WITH HIM?
3. MARY (POLLY), BORN SEPTEMBER 7, 1817, IN PIKE CO. KY, DIED AFT 1900 AND MARRIED JAMES HARVEY STURGILL, SR. IN 1840, IN CARTER CO. KY.
4. HETTIE "EASTER ROBINSON IS ON HER TOMBSTONE", BORN FEB 25, 1821, IN PIKE CO. KY., MARRIED JAMES CASTNER ROBINSON, AUGUST 17, 1853, IN CARTER CO. KY. DIED FEB 25, 1884, IN CARTER CO. KY. BOTH ARE BURIED IN THE ORIGINAL LEADINGHAM CEMETERY ON THE HILL OVERLOOKING ROUTE 1122 AND LITLE FORK CREEK.
5. JESSE L., BORN MAY 9, 1824, IN CARTER CO. KY. WAS MARRIED TWO TIMES. FIRST TO ELIZA WAGGONER, ON MARCH 2, 1848, IN MORGAN CO. KY. AND SECOND TO MARTHA TIPTON, IN CARTER CO. KY. HE HAD CHILDREN BY BOTH. (SEE FAMILY GROUPS SHEETS FOR BOTH FAMILIES). HE DIED JUNE 26, 1901, IN ELLIOTT CO. KY.
6. WILLIAM THOMAS, BORN AUGUST 18, 1825, NEAR WILLARD, CARTER CO. KY.
MARRIED NAOMI PARSONS (DAUGHTER OF HEZEKIAH PARSONS AND LEAH DEBORD) IN 1862, AND HE DIED ON MARCH 22, 1901 IN CARTER CO. KY. THESE TWO ARE BURIED IN THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY OFF ROUTE 1122 AND LITTLE FORK CREEK.
7. THOMAS, BORN JULY 26, 1829 IN CARTER CO. KY. MARRIED MARY ANN (POLLY) JUSTICE IN 1858, IN CARTER CO. KY. HE DIED ON JAN 21, 1915, IN CARTER COUNTY, KY.
8. SARAH, BORN SEPT. 1832,IN CARTER COUNTY. KY. NEVER MARRIED. SHE WAS LIVING WITH HER NEPHEW HAMILTON STURGILL DURING THE 1900 CENSUS.
9. NANCY, BORN CA. 1834, IN CARTER CO. KY. MARRIED DAVID LESTER, ON MARCH 30, 1854.
PETER LEADINGHAM DIED ON MARCH 2, 1856, AT HIS FARM ON LEADINGHAM BRANCH, AND LITTLE FORK CREEK, NEAR WILLARD, CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AND WE BELIEVE THAT HE IS BURIED IN THE LEADINGHAM CEMETERY IN FRONT OF A LARGE TREE, AT THE HIGHEST POINT IN THE CEMETERY WITH SEVERAL MEMBERS OF HIS FAMILY. THEIR GRAVES ARE MARKED BY PIECES OF SAND STONE AT THE HEAD AND FOOT OF EACH GRAVE WITHOUT ANY LETTERING.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1850 CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY CENSUS, SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON WAS AGE 65, AND BORN IN VIRGINIA, WHICH WOULD DOCUMENT THAT SHE WAS BORN IN 1785, IN VIRGINIA, AND THE DAUGHTER OF SAMUEL HAMILTON AND ESTHER SAMPSON. SAMUEL HAMILTON'S FATHER IS THOMAS HAMBLETON/HAMILTON, SR.

INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM:
1. PAGE 639 OF A BOOK WRITTEN BY WILLIAM C. KOZEE, TITLED EARLY FAMILIES OF EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN KENTUCKY, AND PUBLISHED BY THE BALTIMORE GENEALOGICAL PUBLISHING CO., INC. OF BALTIMORE, MD. DATED 1979.
2. PERSONAL INTERVIEW WITH JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM IN 1960, ONE WEEK PRIOR TO HIS DEATH, AND FAMILY MEMBERS. JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM IS THE SON OF WILLIAM THOMAS AND NAOMI PARSONS LEADINGHAM. JESSE CAUDLE MARRIED DELILAH JANE WELLS OF WELLS BRANCH, AND THEY HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN. ONE WAS MEREDITH FRANKLIN LEADINGHAM THAT MARRIED BELVA ADKINS, AND THEY ARE MY (MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM WHO INTERVIEWED JESSE CAUDLE LEADINGHAM IN 1962, PRIOR TO HIS DEATH.)
3. DONNA PENNINGTON BRYANT IN MAY 1992.
4. 1850 CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY CENSUS, WHICH SHOWS PETER AGE 65 AND SARAH 65, AND SARAH BEING BORN IN VIRGINIA..
5. COMPILED AND COMPUTERIZED BY MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM OF FREDERICK, MD. (MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM IS HE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDSON OF PETER LEADINGHAM, AND SARAH (SALLY)HAMILTON).
6. UPDATED IN OCTOBER OF 1993, FROM A BOOK WRITTEN BY VERLE HAMILTON PARRISH, TITLED HAMILTON'S OF EASTERN KENTUCKY. COPY ON FILE AT THE EASTERN KENTUCKY GENEALOGY ASSOCIATION, LOCATED IN THE LIBRARY IN ASHLAND, BOYD COUNTY, KENTUCKY.
7. SOME LEADENHAM INFORMATION WAS OBTAINED FROM THE FAMILY TREE MAKER, DISK NUMBER 3, ON FILE AT THE HOME OF MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM.
8. EDITED IN AUGUST OF 1997, AND 1998 WITH INFORMATION FROM THE 1840 CARTER CO., KY. CENSUS.
9. E-MAIL FROM DEANNA LEVITO ON JULY 3, 1998, GIVING DEED BOOK INFORMATION LOCATED IN DEED BOOK B, PAGE 376, DATED APRIL 6, 1844 WHERE PETER LEADENHAM OR LEADINGHAM OWNED LAND ON LONG FORK OF SHELBY CREEK IN 1844, WHEN THAT PART OF PIKE CO., KY. WAS JOHNSON CO., IN 1998 THE LAND WOULD BE IN PIKE CO., KY AND DEEDS RECORDED IN THE PIKE CO., KY. CLERK'S OFFICE. THERE IS NO RECORD PETER LIVED ON THIS LAND AND MAY HAVE BEEN IN CARTER CO., KY BY 1844?
10. INFORMATION RECEIVED FROM MICHAL MARTIN FARMER, DALLAS, TEXAS ON APRIL 29, 1999, WHICH GAVE ME THE INFORMATION ON JOHN LEDINGHAM, JR, HIS WIFE FRANCES CATHERINE LEDINGHAM BEING BURIED AT THE OAKS PLANTATION AND THE LOCATION OF THE PLANTATION AND THAT JOHN OWNED 43 NEGROES WHO WORKED THE FIELDS IN THE MIDDLE 1800'S.
11. IN ACCORDANCE WITH AN E-MAIL FROM SHARON D. WARRIX WHO WRITES FOR A LOCAL SALYERSVILLE, KENTUCKY NEWSPAPER INFORMED ME THAT TODAY'S SALYERSVILLE, MAGOFFIN COUNTY, KENTUCKY IS ON US 460 AND KY 7, JUST NORTH OF THE MOUNTAIN PARKWAY AND 139 MILES SOUTH EAST OF DOWNTOWN LOUISVILLE. SHE STATES THAT THE FIRST PERMANENT SETTLEMENT IN THE SALYERSVILLE VICINITY WAS MADE AROUND 1800 ON THE HILL JUST BELOW THE LATER TOWN SITE BY THE PRATERS, EBENEZER HENNAY, AND OTHERS, AND WAS CALLED PRATER'S FORT OR LICKING STATION AS IT OVERLOOKED THE LICKING RIVER. IN 1839. THEN IT WAS KNOWN AS BURNING SPRING. ON MAR 3, 1929 IT WAS MOVED TO THE SITE AND RENAMED LICKING STATION WITH BENJAMIN F. GARDNER POST MASTER. LICKING STATION WAS REMOVED TO THE SITE OF PRESENT DAY SALYERSVILLE IN 1849 AND RENAMED ADAMSVILLE FOR WILLAIM "UNCLE BILLY" ADAMS, THE SON OF PIONEER STEPHEN ADAMS WHO HAD COME TO KENTUCKY FROM NORTH CAROLINA AROUND 1809. THE POST OFFICE WAS RENAMED SALYERSVILLE IN 1861. HERE ON LAND DONATED BY BILLY ADAMS, AN EXTENSIVE LANDOWNER AND BUSINESSMAN, THE NEW COUNTY SEAT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED IN 1860 AND NAMED FOR SAMUEL SALYER (1913-1990), THE LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE WHO HAD INTRODUCED THE BILL IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE TO CREATE THE COUNTY.
12. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE 1839 CARTER COUNTY, KENTUCKY TAX LIST PETER AND HIS SON JACOB BOTH OWNED LAND IN CARTER CO., KY. IN 1839.

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More About Peter Leadenham:
Burial: 1856, Peter Leadingham Cemetery, Little Fork Creek, Carter CO., KY.?

More About Sarah (Sally) Hamilton:
Burial: 1864, Peter Leadingham Cemetery, Little Fork Creek, Carter CO., KY.?
     
Children of Peter Leadenham and Sarah Hamilton are:
+ 2 i.   Jacob4 Leadingham, born 1814 in Pike CO., KY.; died 02 Jul 1888 in Carter CO., Ky..
+ 3 ii.   Elizabeth Leadenham, born 1815 in Pike CO., KY.; died Aft. 1881.
+ 4 iii.   Mary (Polly) Leadingham, born 07 Sep 1817 in Pike CO., KY.; died 23 Mar 1891 in Carter CO., KY..
+ 5 iv.   Easter (Hettie) Leadingham, born 25 Sep 1821 in Pike CO., Ky.; died 25 Feb 1884 in Carter CO., KY..
+ 6 v.   Jesse L. Leadingham, born 09 May 1824 in Pike CO., KY.; died 26 Jun 1901 in Elliott CO., KY..
+ 7 vi.   William Thomas Leadingham, born 19 Aug 1825 in Floyd CO., Ky.; died 22 Mar 1901 in Carter CO., KY..
+ 8 vii.   Thomas Leadingham, born 26 Jul 1829 in Floyd CO., KY.; died 21 Jan 1915 in Carter CO., KY..
  9 viii.   Sarah Leadingham, born Sep 1832 in Floyd CO., KY.; died in Carter CO., KY..
  Notes for Sarah Leadingham:
BIO: SARAH LEADINGHAM WAS BORN AROUND 1832, IN CARTER COUNTY,
KENTUCKY TO THE PARENTS OF PETER LEADINGHAM AND SARAH (SALLY)
HAMILTON.
SHE WAS BORN ON LEADINGHAM BRANCH AND LITTLE FORK CREEK, ON THE
ORIGINAL LEADINGHAM HOME STEAD, THAT HER FATHER NAMED AFTER HIMSELF,
WHEN HE MOVED HIS FAMILY FROM LICKING STATION, NEAR SALYERSVILLE,
PIKE COUNTY, KENTUCKY, AROUND 1825.
THERE IS NO RECORD OF WHO SHE MARRIED OR WHEN SHE DIED.
DURING THE 1880 CENSUS SHE WAS 40 YEARS OLD AND LIVING WITH HER SISTER MAY LEADINGHAM STURGILL AND STILL SINGLE.
SHE IS PROBABLY BURIED IN ONE OF THE GRAVES IN THE LEADINGHAM
CEMETERY, HIGH ON THE HILL OVER LOOKING LEADINGHAM BRANCH AND HYLTON BRANCH, AND LITTLE FORK CREEK. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CEMETERY IS A VERY LARGE OAK TREE, WITH ABOUT SIXTY GRAVES, MARKED ONLY BY A SAND
STONE AT THE HEAD AND FOOT, WITH OUT ANY MARKINGS. WE BELIEVE THIS IS
WHERE PETER, SALLY HAMILTON AND SOME OF PETER'S FAMILY ARE BURIED.
INFORMATION OBTAINED FROM:

1. DONNA SUE PENNINGTON BRYANT..
2. SEE 1880 CARTER CO., KY CENSUS WHICH SHOWS HER AS BEING 40 YEARS OLD AND LIVING WITH HER SISTER MARY AND SINGLE.
2. COMPUTERIZED BY MEREDITH PAUL LEADINGHAM OF 201 EAST 8TH ST.
FREDERICK, MD. ZIP 21701, THE GREAT-GREAT-GRAND SON OF PETER
LEADINGHAM AND SARAH (SALLY) HAMILTON.


+ 10 ix.   Nancy Leadingham, born 1834 in Floyd CO., KY..

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