McLEOD BIOGRAPHIES, Henry County, Missouri
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McLEOD, George B. - b: 1847 Morgan Co, MO
source: 1883 History of Henry Missouri , National Historical Co. - page: 685
residence: Fields Creek Twp

George B. McLeod, farmer and stock raiser, section 21, was born in Morgan 
County, Missouri, July 4, 1847, being the son of William H. McLeod, a farmer by 
occupation, and Martha (Salmon) McLeod, both natives of North Carolina. George B. 
was the fifth of a family of seven children. He remained with his parents in 
Missouri until twelve years old, when he went to the state of Georgia with his 
grandfather, F. H. McLeod. There he continued to reside until 1866, receiving his 
education in the public schools and the military college at Marietta, Georgia. In 
1866 he returned to Missouri and lived in Morgan County until the fall of 1867, 
when he came to Clinton, clerking in Salmon & Stone's Bank for ten months. Since 
that time he has followed farming and the raising and shipping of stock. His farm 
contains 160 acres, 110 acres of which are in cultivation and under 
improvements, and it is well adapted for a stock farm. Beneath it is a good vein 
of coal. Mr. McLeod was in the Georgia state service a short time during the war, 
and then enlisted in Company A, Battalion of Georgia Cadets. He was discharged 
at Augusta in May 1865. October 25, 1875, he married Miss Tabitha Fields, a 
daughter of N. A. Fields. She was born in Henry County, Missouri, January 4, 1853. 
They have two children, Catherine A. and Helen E. Mr. and Mrs. McLeod are 
members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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