Brief Life History of Edward
When Edward Leach was born in 1814, in Virginia, United States, his father, William H. Leach Jr., was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Jane Thompson, was 36. He married Eliza J. McKenzie on 14 May 1835, in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Highland, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States in 1870 and Magisterial District 4 Hustonville, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States in 1880. He died on 26 September 1887, in Lincoln, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Kings Mountain, Lincoln, Kentucky, United States.
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Sources (11)
- Edward Leech, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Edward Leach - Published information: birth-name: Edward Leach
- Edward Leach, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
Spouse and Children
1814–1887 Male
1825–1895 Female
Children (10)
1837– Female
1840–1914 Female
1842–1928 Male
1844–1916 Male
1846– Male
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Parents and Siblings
1776–1844 Male
1778–1860 Female
Siblings (10)
1792–1868 Female
1799–1879 Female
1803–1839 Male
1803–1866 Female
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World Events (8)
1819 · Panic! of 1819
Age 5
1824 · """Mary Randolph Publishes """"The Virginia Housewife"""""""
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1836 · Remember the Alamo
Age 22
Name Meaning
English: occupational name for a physician, from Middle English leche, lache ‘physician’ (Old English lǣce ‘leech; physician, blood-letter, surgeon’). The name refers to the medieval medical practice of bleeding, typically by applying leeches to a patient. The surname is recorded in the late 14th-century Poll Tax Returns for men whose occupation is stated as medicus ‘physician’, or occasionally spicer (spicers acted as apothecaries), but some men named le Leche have unrelated occupations including cultor ‘cultivator, farm laborer’, which suggests that leche could refer to an amateur ‘medicine man’ who supplied folk remedies.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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