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(ANDREW LEEPER BELOW IS A BROTHER TO MY GREAT GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER)
(JAMES LEEPER(SONS OF JOHN LEEPER)AND GRANDSONS OF NICHOLAS LEEPER   )
         
             1- ANDREW LEEPER AND MARGARET PARKS  (1st wife)
                   MARRIED FEBRUARY 27, 1810
                Son of John and Elizabeth Leeper
         
  ANDREW LEEPER was born March 25, 1788 and died October 15, 1853. His wife
  Margaret Parks was born August  22, 1787 and died March 5, 1833. Their
  children were Maria J., Elizabeth D., Mary M., Esther, Nancy E., William T.,
  John, James P., Matthew Nicholas, Andrew Adolpheus, Franklin William
  and Thomas.

  Children
  1- MARIA J. LEEPER          b- 7-8-1810      d-

  2- ELIZABETH D. LEEPER      b- 8-24-1812     d-10- -1818

  3- MARY M. LEEPER           b- 1-2-1815      d-

  4- ESTHER LEEPER            b- 12-13-1817    d-11-9-1821

  5- NANCY E. LEEPER          b- 6-24-1819     d-11-26-1824

  6- WILLIAM P. LEEPER        b- 4-1-1821      d-11-4-1821

  7- JOHN LEEPER              b- 10-2-1822     d-1-27-1823

  8- JAMES P. LEEPER          b- 2-27-1824     d-10-27-1824

* 9- MATTHEW NICHOLAS LEEPER  b- 4-9-1826      d-      1858      m-7- 9-1850
     Julia Johanna Lonergan   b-     1832      d-      1855

  10 ANDREW ADOLPHEUS LEEPER  b- 4-11-1828     d- 7-8-1889


  11-FRANKLIN WILLIAM LEEPER  b- 2-4-1831      d- 9-25-1905      m-11-4-1852
     Jane Cooper Ratchford (1st wife)
     Elmina Cathrine Ratchford (2nd wife)                        m-8-28-1855

  12-THOMAS LEEPER            b- 3-5-1833      d- 1-14-1834


  Jane Cooper Ratchford was born March 13, 1834 and died April 9, 1854
  Elmina Cathrine Ratchford was born June 27, 1833 and died May 16, 1908





 (Above information taken a bible owned by Mrs Charles Logginn, Gastonia, N.C.
 whose mother was Nell Ratchford Little)