Individual Details

"The children of Col. J. W. Leak, who was Lieutenant Colonel of the 23rd, North Carolina Regiment in the Civil War, and his wife, Ann C. Leak died early in life except one daughter, Fannie, who married H. C. Wall." (Information about the Leak family was taken from MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF ANSON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA compiled by the Craighead-Dunlap Chapter DAR, Wadesboro, North Carolina, 1972, "Everett Sketches" by Capt. W. I. Everett, deceased, 1927, page 135; located in the Rockingham - Richmond County Library, Rockingham, North Carolina.)

"John Wall Leak was a North Carolina soldier. They resided in Rockingham County, North Carolina at the old family mansion." ("Kinfolks - A Genealogical and Biographical Record," 1934, by William Curry Harllee, page 254.)

Birth	March 16, 1816	Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina
Marriage	Bef 1840	probably Rockingham, Richmond County, North Carolina - Ann Cole Leak
Death	May 16, 1876	Rockingham County, North Carolina
Burial		Leak-Covington Cemetery, Rockingham County, North Carolina

Spouse	Ann Cole Leak (1819 - 1895)
Child	Mary Hunter Leak (1840 - 1845)
Child	Frances Ann Leak (1842 - 1845)
Child	Virginia Wall Leak (1845 - 1858)
Child	Martha Frances "Fannie" Leak (1847 - 1921)

Father	William Pickett Leak (1786 - 1827)
Mother	Ann Poytress Nancy "Nannie" Wall (1786 - 1856)
Sibling	Alexander T. Leak (1808 - 1809)
Sibling	Eliza Ann Leak (1809 - 1878)
Sibling	Walter Raleigh Leak (1811 - 1859)
Sibling	Martha Wall Leak (1813 - 1850)
Sibling	William Cole Leak (1818 - 1869)
Sibling	Hannah Pickett Leak (1820 - )
Sibling	James Augustus Leak (1822 - 1892)
Sibling	Mary Jane Leak (1823 - 1849)
Sibling	Ann P. Leak (1827 - 1827)