Coosa County AlArchives Biographies.....McLeod, John November 22 1835 - living in 1893
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Author: Brant & Fuller (1893)
    JOHN MCLEOD, a prominent merchant of Good Water, Ala., is a son of William
and Margaret K. (Kelly) McLeod, the former of whom was a native of North
Carolina, born in Cumberland county in 1800. He was reared and married in that
county. In 1838 he emigrated to Coosa county, Ala., settling within four miles
of Good Water, and living in the same vicinity until his death, which occurred
in 1856. His widow died in 1878. John McLeod, the father of William, was born
and reared in the Isle of Skye, one of the Hebrides off the coast of Scotland.
He was a member of a Highland clan. He was reared in the latter part of the last
century. The Kelly family also came from the Isle of Skye. Angus Kelly, father
of Mrs. Margaret K. McLeod, came to North Carolina when quite a young man.
William and Margaret McLeod reared a family of six children, all of whom are
living, viz: Sarah, single and living on the old homestead; Martha, single and
living on the old homestead; John Lovdy, single and living at Good Water; Julia,
single, and Angus, of Kellyton, Ala. John McLeod was born November 22, 1835, in
Cumberland county, N. C. During the war he served in the army of northern
Virginia as a member of company A, Sixtieth Alabama infantry, Col. John A.
Sanford. He enlisted April 2, 1862, and participated in the battles of
Chickamauga, Bean Station, Drury's Bluff, Bermuda Hundred, the battles around
Richmond, and numerous other engagements about Petersburg and elsewhere. During
the last eight months he was a member of a sharpshooters' battalion, and was
taken prisoner at Hatcher's Run April 1, 1865. He was taken to Point Lookout,
Md., and kept until the following June. For many years after the war he followed
the trade of mechanic and carriage-builder, and also that of the millwright: He
located in Good Water in November, 1879, and established a hardware store. In
1890 he accepted a partner, and added a line of drugs, the firm being named Moon
& McLeod. This firm continued until 1886, when another partner was admitted to
the firm, and the name changed to Moon, McLeod & Co. In 1887 Mr. McLeod bought
out both his partners and ran the business alone until 1889, when he took in his
present partner, B. H. Ford, the firm taking the name of McLeod. & Ford. This is
a very successful and prosperous hardware firm. Mr. McLeod was married May 18,
1871, in Coosa county, to Mary Elizabeth Staples, eldest daughter of D. R. and
Mary A. M. (Moon) Staples, by whom he has one child, a daughter, named Margaret
Kelly McLeod, born April 26, 1872. She is a graduate of the Female college at
Tuskegee. Mr. McLeod has been mayor of Good Water several times. He is
interested in farming and milling beside his merchandising. Politically Mr.
McLeod is a democrat. He is a Knight of Honor, and a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, south. He is a steward of his church and has been for many
years. He is a successful and substantial citizen of Good Water, whom every one
respects and honors, and his name is a synonym for honesty and fair dealing.



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from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 733-734



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