DESCENDANTS of JOSEPH LEECH

This file last updated:  26 August 2002

JOSEPH LEECH is the son of JOHN LEECH and ELEANOR McHENRY .

Generation No. 4

5.  JOSEPH LEECH (JOHN3, JOHN2, DAVID1, UNKNOWN0) was born August 03, 1798, probably in what is now Hart County, KY, but possibly in South Carolina (Spartanburg County) or even North Carolina, and died March 13, 1872 in Union Township, Hardin County Iowa, He is buried in Sheppard Cemetery northwest of Union, Iowa (also in Union Township, Hardin County). age 73y 7m 10da. He married CELIA TURPIN 1822 in Hart County Kentucky.  She is the daughter of NATHAN TURPIN and SARAH JOHNSON. She was born 26 Aug 1808 in Ky, and died March 12, 1872 in Union Township, Hardin Co. IA, also buried Sheppard cem. NW of Union ..  The date of death on her tombstone is August 26, 1874.

Who is MALINDA WISEMAN?

Notes on place of birth for Joseph Leech:

While the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses all record Joseph Leech's place of birth as Kentucky, in the 1880 and 1900 censuses his children their father's place of birth as North Carolina 6 times and Kentucky 3 times.  Since Nathan and Polly are in the same household in 1900, you could discount one of their North Carolina answers.  I think it most likely that Joseph was born in what is now Hart County, Kentucky, but his family hadn't been there for more than a handful of years.  It's possible that some of the North Carolina answers were actually given to the census taker as "Carolina".  In the southeastern townships of Hardin County, Iowa were many Quakers from North Carolina.  This can't be used to explain the 1880 census answers of North Carolina for his sons JOHN BEAUCAMP and SIMEON B LEECH.  It could also be that JOSEPH's parents crossed the Carolina border and lived for a few years in North Carolina before crossing the Appalachians.  It's just an odd answer given everything else we know.  See notes on place of birth under Henry Leech and Tabitha Leech.

Children of JOSEPH LEECH and CELIA TURPIN are:

29. i.  JOHN BEAUCAMP LEECH , b. September 19, 1823, Hart County KY.
ii. GIRL LEECH b.  about 1824.  See 1840 Census below.  Possible error in census.
30. iii.  NATHAN TURPIN LEECH , b. August 06, 1826, Hart County KY.
31. iv.  MARY H. LEECH ("POLLY") , b. July 25, 1827, Hart County KY.
32. v.  JAMES T. LEECH , b. June 1828, Hart County KY.
vi.  JOSEPH F. LEECH, b. 1832, Hart County KY.; d. before 1850 (I think the family bible record for a death Sep 2 1843 may actually be his).
33. vii.  SIMEON B. LEECH , b. August 11, 1834, Hart Co Ky.
viii.  LILLIE ANN LEECH, b. August 04, 1839, Hart Co. KY; d. November 29, 1852, Hart Co. Ky (Gorin, Hart Co. Vital Stats); also have D: sept 2, 1843 bible record.

They probably had other children who died in infancy.

Sources:
(1) Original compilation by Charlotte Mazurik, with my notes and an odd date or two.  Some of the dates of birth       (for instance, Simeon's) could only be from a Family Bible
(2) Transcription of Sheppard Cemetery, Union Township, Hardin Co., IA ., by Charlotte Mazurik.  You can find this on the Hardin County, IA Genweb Site, reachable through any of the Sheppard Cemetery links.
(3) Widow's pension application, MARY E. LEECH.
(4)  The Biography of John M. Cox. which names 6 of these children.
(5) 1850 Census of Hart Co., KY, p. 216A, household 547/537, rows .  Enumerated Aug 1850 by John W Powrsett, Ass't Marshall.
 
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 Joseph Leech 53 M   Farmer 1084 (Kentucky)        
    Cecelia Do 44 F             "     1  
    James Do 21 M   Farmer         "     1  
    Simeon Do 16 M     do         "        
    Lilly A Do 10 F             "        
    Mary Martin 23 F             "        
    Elizabeth Do   5 F             "        
    Martha Do   4 F             "        
    Mary Do   1 F             "        
    William Turpen 25 M   Farmer         "        

(6) Gorin, Hart County Deaths.
(7) 1870 Census, Iowa, Hardin County, Union Township, p. 510, household 120/119.
(8) 1875 Atlas of Union Township, Hardin County, IA , shows Jos Leach owning 40 acres on the south-southeast border of Section 17.
(9) 1840 Census, Hart County, Kentucky, p. 198, line 9, suggests
 
ages males females  
under 5 0 1 (Lillie Ann)  
5 to under 10 2 (Joseph, Simeon) 0  
10 to under 15 2 (Nathan, James) 1 (Polly)  
15 to under 20 1 (John) 1 (i)  
20 to under 30      
30 to under 40   1 (Celia)  
40 to under 50 1 (Joseph)   1 female, 60 to under 69.  Possibly Celia's mother.

of note:  line 10 on this page is J D Martin (Polly and Nathan Leech married MARTINs), line 11 is J J Gill (father of MARY ELIZABETH GILL, who married SIMEON B LEECH), line 12 is WILLIAM GILL (father of J J GILL), and line 14 is JAMES GILL (brother of J J GILL).
(10) 1830 Census, Kentucky, Hart Co., p. 217, line 19
 
ages males females  
under 5 2 (Nathan, James) 1 (Polly)  
5 to under 10 1 (John)    
10 to under 15      
15 to under 20      
20 to under 30   1 (Celia)  
30 to under 40 1 (Joseph)    
40 to under 50     1 female, 60 to under 69.  Possibly Celia's mother.

(11) 1860 Census, Iowa, Hardin County, Union Township (Post Office Eldora), p. 14, lines 12-18.  Enumerated on the 6th or 7th day of June, 1860, by D. T. Ellsworth.  Joseph and James' got scrambled, and it's a rare person in this township who didn't get his or her name shortened to initials.
 
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84 87 Joseph T Leach 30 M   Farm Laborer   50  KY        
     L          Do 27 F            "        
     J G B    Do   6 M            "        
     L A      Do   4 F            "         
    J H       Do      2/12 M         Iowa        
    J Leach 67 M   Farmer 800 250  KY        
    S    Do 57 F           do        


Who is MALINDA WISEMAN?

Malinda Wiseman Died Dec 16 187?, according to her tombstone in the Sheppard Cemetery, Union Township, Hardin Co., KY.  She was 58 years old   She was 58 according to the 1870 census of Hardin County, IA.  So I assume she was born in the first half of 1812.

As Charlotte Mazurik points out, Malinda Wiseman may be the sister of JOSEPH LEECH:  "She is buried next to Joseph and Celia Leech. Their stones are all of the same design and have been broken and repaired by a Paula Burgess."

I found MALINDA WISEMAN in the 1860 census of Miller County, Missouri: she is the wife of ALBERT G. WISEMAN. The JOHN C. REYNOLDS in their household is a good match for the JOHN C. REYNOLDS in the household of MALINDA REYNOLDS in the 1850 census: .a LOUISA REYNOLDS is also in this household.  See the 1850 Census of Barren County, KY , , or household 264/farm 272 , MALINDA REYNOLDS is 37 (born in VA) and head of household; next in the listing is LOUISA REYNOLDS, age 16 (born KY).  Also, the household following ALBERT G. WISEMAN in the 1860 census is McHENRY LIGHT. (McHENRY LIGHT is the son of JACOB and SARAH LEECH LIGHT, and therefore, JOSEPH LEECH's nephew.) McHENRY LIGHT's wife ELIZA J. matches the ELIZA J. REYNOLDS in the 1850 household of MALINDA REYNOLDS. McHENRY LIGHT appears on page 512 of the 1870 Census of Hardin County, IA; MALINDA WISEMAN appears on page 513. From this we can piece together her movements:

She marries UNKNOWN REYNOLDS in the early 1830s.

UNKNOWN REYNOLDS dies in the mid-1840s

Her daughter LOUISA REYNOLDS marries JAMES T. LEECH around 1851.

Her daughter ELIZA J. REYNOLDS marries McHENRY LIGHT (first cousin to JAMES T. LEECH) around 1856

She moves to KANSAS with her daughter ELIZA and most of the LIGHTS shortly after that.

She probably marries ALBERT G. WISEMAN in KANSAS.

When the LIGHTs move from KANSAS to MISSOURI, she, ALBERT, McHENRY and ELIZA return to MILLER County, while the rest of the LIGHTs relocate in CEDAR County.

After ALBERT G. WISEMAN dies, MALINDA, McHENRY and ELIZA join her daughter and her in-laws in Hardin County, IA.