Individual Details
Walter Francis Leak Sr.
(November 30, 1761 - July 3, 1844)
(NOTE FROM RALPH TERRY: Some researchers give a death year of 1811 for Walter Francis Leak, Sr. If he gave gifts of deeds to his grandchildren in 1820, could he have died in 1811? Need to check this. Either date could have been due to a misreading of his tombstone.)
"Walter Leak moved when a small child with his family to Anson County, North Carolina. He was a planter and Revolutionary soldier." ("Kinfolks, A Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1934, by William Curry Harllee, page 254. Information about the family of William and Hannah Pickett Leake from "Kinfolks, A Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1934, by William Curry Harllee.)
"Walter Leake dropped the final "e" from the "Leake" name." (Leak family data complied by Mrs. J. L. Little of Morven, North Carolina, DAR, Wadesboro, North Carolina, 1937.)
"Walter Leak and his wife, Hannah (Pickett) Leak came from the west side of the Pee Dee River in Anson County and first settled near Smith's Ford on Little River. Later they moved to a place nearby, one mile south of Rockingham, on Falling Creek." 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 133; located in the Rockingham - Richmond County Library, Rockingham, North Carolina.)
"Richmond County, North Carolina. Deed of gift from Walter Leak, Senr. of county and state, to two grandchildren, Eli Terry and Francis Terry, sons of William Terry - 9 November 1820." (Deed Book A, Vol 1 (1820-25), page 11.; abstracted in ALABAMA RECORDS, Vol 206, compiled by Kathleen Paul Jones and Pauline Jones Gandrud, July 1962, page 1.) (NOTE FROM RALPH TERRY: The children and their father given in these source do not correspond to what I have for the family of Sarah Childs Leak.)
(Additional information from DAR Lineage Book, Vol 46, pages 212-213, lineage of Miss Mary Ledbetter Smith, # 45503; Vol 47, pages 288-289, lineage of Mrs. Sallie S. S. Brown # 46623; Vol 158 (1920), pages 115-116, lineage of Mrs. Sue Cole Winburn Waring # 157360; the "Rockingham Post-Dispatch," Richmond County, North Carolina, 30 November 1949.)
"Walter Leak moved when a small child with his family to Anson County, North Carolina. He was a planter and Revolutionary soldier." ("Kinfolks, A Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1934, by William Curry Harllee, page 254. Information about the family of William and Hannah Pickett Leake from "Kinfolks, A Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1934, by William Curry Harllee.)
"Walter Leake dropped the final "e" from the "Leake" name." (Leak family data complied by Mrs. J. L. Little of Morven, North Carolina, DAR, Wadesboro, North Carolina, 1937.)
"Walter Leak and his wife, Hannah (Pickett) Leak came from the west side of the Pee Dee River in Anson County and first settled near Smith's Ford on Little River. Later they moved to a place nearby, one mile south of Rockingham, on Falling Creek." 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 133; located in the Rockingham - Richmond County Library, Rockingham, North Carolina.)
"Richmond County, North Carolina. Deed of gift from Walter Leak, Senr. of county and state, to two grandchildren, Eli Terry and Francis Terry, sons of William Terry - 9 November 1820." (Deed Book A, Vol 1 (1820-25), page 11.; abstracted in ALABAMA RECORDS, Vol 206, compiled by Kathleen Paul Jones and Pauline Jones Gandrud, July 1962, page 1.) (NOTE FROM RALPH TERRY: The children and their father given in these source do not correspond to what I have for the family of Sarah Childs Leak.)
(Additional information from DAR Lineage Book, Vol 46, pages 212-213, lineage of Miss Mary Ledbetter Smith, # 45503; Vol 47, pages 288-289, lineage of Mrs. Sallie S. S. Brown # 46623; Vol 158 (1920), pages 115-116, lineage of Mrs. Sue Cole Winburn Waring # 157360; the "Rockingham Post-Dispatch," Richmond County, North Carolina, 30 November 1949.)
Events
| Birth | November 30, 1761 | Buckingham County, Virginia | |||
| Marriage | Abt, 1783 | Hannah Pickett | |||
| Death | July 3, 1844 | Rockingham County, North Carolina | |||
| Burial | Leak-Covington Cemetery, Rockingham County, North Carolina |
Families
| Spouse | Hannah Pickett (1766 - 1809) |
| Child | Sarah C. "Sally" Childs Leake (1784 - 1853) |
| Child | William Pickett Leak (1786 - 1827) |
| Child | Judith Moseley Leak (1789 - 1868) |
| Child | Mouring Pickett Leak (1791 - 1871) |
| Child | Nancy J. Leak (1792 - 1817) |
| Child | Elizabeth Leak (1796 - 1806) |
| Child | Walter Francis Leak Jr. (1799 - 1879) |
| Child | Col. Francis Terry "Frank" Leak (1802 - 1863) |
| Child | James Pickett Leak (1805 - 1877) |
| Father | William Leake (1720 - 1776) |
| Mother | Judith Moseley (1736 - 1809) |
| Sibling | Francis "Frank" Leak ( - 1786) |
| Sibling | William Leake ( - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Leake ( - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Leake (1752 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Howard "Sally" Leak ( - ) |
| Sibling | Judith Leak ( - ) |