GIEN:LCGICAL Ir CORDS

 THE LSL21Y FAI..ILY


 The direct ancestor of the Lesley family of Tampa was
 .'illiam Lesley, who was born November 10, 1754, and died De-
 cember 30, 1821 or 1823. He married Anna Caldwell, April 29,
 1778. She was born September 27, 1759, and died July 28,
 1800. They had eleven children; namely,
 (1) Thomas, born :ay 12, 1780; died July 3, 1784.
 (2) James, born August 8, 1782; died August 9, 1808.
 He married Caroline Bird.
 (3) John Harris, who was born February 11, 1784, and
 died July 31, 1855. He married Mary Gillilan4,who bore him
 five children; namely, Leroy Gilliland, Jaires Thomas, Moses,
 Theodore and Frances.
 (a) Leroy Gilliland Lesley was born in Abbeville, South
 Carolina, May 11, 1808. He removed to Madiscn County, Florida,
 in 1832; he settled in Tasma in the winter of 1848. He was/a
 preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and was one
 of the early pastors of that church in Tampa, the First Aethod-
 ist Church in this city having been organized in 1846, and Rev.
 Leroy G. Lesley being appointed its pastor in 1849. He was
 the third pastor of this church. After serving his church and
 the cause of the gospel in this and various other charges, he
 located and retired from the regular work of the ministry.
 Leroy G. Lesley had a distinguished record in a widely
 different field. He was a soldier as well as a minister, serv-
 ing his country'in three w'rrs, t'ose :-ith the Indians in 1835-
 1842, the second war r'vith the Indians from 1856 to 1858, and
 the great struggle of 1861-1865. In the last Indian W'ar and
 in the Civil War he raised and commanded companies of cavalry,
 in the last named war, of course, on the Confederate side.
 Leroy G. Lesloy ,was married twice, the first time to
 Indiana Childs Livingston, a descendant of Philip Livingston,
 one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. There;
 were born to him by this marriage two sons and one daughter.
 The second son -ws :mery Leroy, who, while still a young man
 and unmarried, cas killed by the accidental discharge of his
 own gun.
 The first son of Leroy G. and Indiana (Livingston) Lesley
 was John Thomas, who was born in Madison County, Florida, Lay
 12, 1835, and removed to Fort Brooke (now Tampa) with his par-
 ents, in 1848. He served as a private and lieutenant in his i
 father's company of cavalry in the Indian war of 1857, and dur-
 ing the War Between the States he was Captain of Company K,
 Fourth Florida infantry. He was promoted to the rank of major.
 In 1863 he was ordered home by his general to raise a company
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