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From: <aquarius@glowbugs.com>
To: "GENE SLOVER" <gemco@pics.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: Address
Thank you so much for all of the wonderful pictures. My sister Erika has some pictures that I am going to scan this weekend. Included are pictures of Olive Eldora Leech, one of the Leech Sisters. She is buried right here in Shreveport. I have also located the graves of L.W and two of his daughters in West Monroe, and some of the Thompson and Dozier members of the family.
Actually I have amassed quite a bit of information on the Leech Family and the Carter side of the family too. Don't be surprised when you hear from several other of Levi's descendants when they find your postings on Genealogy.com
I have yet to find the graves of Levi's mother and father. It is said they are buried in the "Old Beckville Cemetary". I have only located one old cemetary near Beckville and most of the graves are unmarked. It could be that they are NOT there and are instead buried in Carthage Texas where Levi spent the majority of his life after the war.
I have done an awful lot of research on the 10th Texas Cavalry. They were dismounted and fought the entire war as infantry. They were in EVERY major battle of the war, that was fought by the Army of Tennessee, with the exception of the Battle of Ft. Donelson and the battle of Shiloh. They were in the process of crossing the Mississippi River with the Army commanded by Earl Van Dorn while the Battle of Shiloh was taking place. In fact they were on the way there to re-inforce Albert Sidney Johnsons army, but arrived too late to take part in that bloody affair. The best I can tell from confederate records ( hit or miss to be sure ) Levi was
wounded 4 times. Once at Chickamauga(serious, through the leg), again at Franklin ( not serious), again at Nashville ( again, not serious) and then the spent ball at Spanish Fort Alabama at the close of the war.
I have in my posession a copy of a receipt, where Levi sold 504 bales of Cotton to a U.S. Government Agent in the summer of 1865, at a place called "Hookers Ferry, Texas". I have yet to find out where Hookers Ferry was, but it had to be in East Texas. And someone in the family had a hell of a lot of land if they had 504
bales of cotton!!!!!
I also have information fromt he Census of 1850 that they were actually living in Desoto Parish Louisiana ( 30 miles south of Shreveport) before moving on to Texas.
you will see all of this when I get the information down to you.
btw, Buck's full name was Hardy Christopher... I think..
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