Dallas County AlArchives Obituaries.....Speck, Wm. Leonidas July 4, 1862
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The Standard of  Raleigh - Dec. 24, 1862
DIED

   WM. LEONIDAS SPECK, a member of Company F, Cahaba Rifles, 5th Alabama 
Regiment, fell mortally wounded in the ever memorable struggle at Gaines' 
Mills, on the afternoon of Friday, June 27, 1862 and died in 1st Alabama 
hospital, on the 4th July, the following Friday, in Richmond. When he fell, he 
put his hands upon his head, then after looking at them, said, "Here are my 
blood and my brains, but I give them up freely for my home and my country."
   He was the eldest son of the late REV. HENRY SPECK, of the North Carolina 
Conference M.E. Church. -- He was a native of Iredell County, N.C., but 
removed to Alabama while yet a mere child with his widowed mother, where he 
resided, beloved and esteemed by all, up to the commencement of the war.

1850 Alabama Census
Dallas County
Elizabeth Speck, 36, F
Leonidas, 14, M
Palmira, 12, F
Henry, 10, M
Virginia, 8, F
Sheppherd, 7, M
All born in North Carolina


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