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| | Leech Families of Mercer County, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | John Humphries married Catharine Dickison, moved to West Virginia, and obtained a warrant on 1000 acres of land where he raised a family of ten children: John, James, William, Samuel, Richard, Robert, Elizabeth, Isabel (Carlton), Margaret (Leech), and Martha. |
 | | William Leech was born in Monroe County, Virginia, in 1821, and came to Mercer County at the age of 21 where he was married in Eliza Township to Miss Eliza Spirling. |
 | | Curiously, in the Leech cemetery is buried one Garet Leech, died December 10, 1857, age 75 yr 11 mo 1 dy. |
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