Re: Leak(e) or Leek & the Sultana disaster.
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Re: Leak(e) or Leek & the Sultana disaster.
Susan Davis 11/19/00
Hi!
Thanks for the response!Yes,I've tried family search and I think everything else on the web.I have been to the archives and can find very little.
I think I have the family on the census in 1860,Sevier Co. TN. On the census name was spelled Leak:
Father- William (aged 28)Mother- Margaret(27)
Dau-Jane(6)
Son-Richard(1)
The Sultana was the steamship that exploded on the Mississippi near the end of the civil war and appr. 1800 people were killed, including William. I can't find Richard again until 1880, when he shows up as a boarder, along with Allen Leak (possibly a brother?), in Knox Co. TN.He married and raised a family in Knox Co. Thanks!