>From Past & Present of Pike Co IL: George W. Leggett, living on section l7 of Spring Creek township, is a progressive farmer, who place of one hundred and twenty acres is neat and well improved. It was upon this farm that he first opened his eyes to the light of day on the 4th of January l856. His father, John W. Leggett came from southeastern Missouri to Pike County and died when his son George was only about a year old. John W. Leggett was married to Louisa Cannon, a native of Alabama, in l855. She survives her husband and yet makes her home in this county, having since the death of Mr. Leggett, become the wife of David Scranton. George W. Leggett was the only child of his mother's first marriage and was reared to manhood in Spring Creek township, assisting his mother in his early boyhood days and afterward aiding his stepfather to carry on the work of the home farm. He enjoyed fair school privileges in the district schools, and at the age of nineteen years he started out in life on his own account, wince which time his labors have been the source of all the prosperity that has come to him. He was first employed by the month at farm labor for a year, at the end of which time he invested his earnings in forty acres of land on section l8 Spring Creek township, where he resided for two years. He then sold that property, after which he again rented a farm for three or four years and then bought one hundred and twenty acres on section of the same township. A number of years later he traded that property for forty acres, where he now resides, on section l7 Spring Creek township, and as his financial resources have increased he has extended the boundaries of his place from time to time, adding on two different occasions forty-acre tracts, so that he now has a good property of one hundred and twenty acres. He has erected an attractive two story frame residence and good outbuildings upon his place, has also planted an orchard, and has considerable small fruit. On the llth of April, l877, Mr. Leggett was united in marriage to Miss Alice Burbridge, a native of pike county, and a daughter of George W. Burbridge who was born in Bath County, Kentucky in l822, while his wife, who in her maidenhood was Nancy E. Ben was also a native of the Blue Grass State. Mr. Burbridge , on leaving Kentucky, became a resident of Pike County, Missouri, and subsequently he purchased land and settled in Pike County, Illinois taking up his abode here in l842 and continuing a resident of this county up to the time of his death...Unto Mr. and Mrs. Leggett have been born eight children, of whom two died in infancy. The others are Lillie Florean, Louisa Elizabeth, Bessie, John W. Dovie Edith and Logan. Mrs. Leggett is a member of the Christian Church of Independence. Mr. Leggett belongs to the Modern Woodmen camp at Nebo; and in politics he has always been a supporter of the men who are pledged to uphold republican principals. He and his estimable wife have labored together since the time of their marriage and have now a neat and comfortable home in Spring Creek township Me. Leggett being numbered among the enterprising farmers of the community. His life record proves what maybe accomplished by determined purpose, self reliance and laudable ambition, for these have been the strong and salient elements in his life work.