Leannah "Leah" Speer (Flinn)^[1]

1755 - 1853  (98 years)

• Name	Leannah "Leah" Speer (Flinn)  [2, 3, 4]
  Born	1755	Somerset County, Colonial Maryland   [3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Residence	1850	Flinn, Lawrence, Indiana, USA   [4]
  Died	1853	Lawrence County, Indiana, USA   [3]
  Buried	Leesville, Lawrence, Indiana, USA   [3]
  Person ID	P4525	Woelfel Family Tree
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2020

  
  

  Father	Andrew Speer, Sr,   b. 3 Dec 1731, Stepney Parish, Nanticoke Hundred, Somerset, Colonial Maryland ,   d. 1820, Shelby County, Kentucky, USA  (Age 88 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elizabeth "Betty" Gentry (Speer),   b. 1725, Stepney Parish, Somerset, Colonial Maryland ,   d. 1837, Shelby, Pike, Kentucky, USA  (Age 112 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1752	Somerset County, Colonial Maryland
  Family ID	F1132	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	William Flinn,   b. 1755, Lunenburg County, Virginia ,   d. 1837, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA  (Age 82 years)
  Children	1. Mathew Flinn,   b. 18 May 1795,   d. 4 May 1882  (Age 86 years)  [natural] + 2. Priscilla Flinn (Speer),   b. 29 Nov 1799, Virginia, USA ,   d. 5 Dec 1882, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA  (Age 83 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	15 Jun 2020
  Family ID	F1227	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Indiana Society Sons of the American Revolution Patriot Graves Registry B. ca 1755 in Maryland D. Died 1853 in Lawrence County, IN Buried: Flinn Cemetery Source: Laughlin Flinn of Virginia and his Descendants by Forrest W. Faris. Susan Dilley, great granddaughter of Leah Speer Flinn, told in a letter that she wrote in about 1910, telling she heard her great grandmother tell that she was raised in Maryland and she was a young woman and rode horseback and carried news to the soldiers during the Revolutionary War and she could go where men could not.

  
  

• Sources

  [S-1435322877] Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=35184585&pid=4525 [S1295776341] American Guthrie and allied families, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc). [S-911861636] U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com, (Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.). [S-1425555292] 1850 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the ), Year: 1850; Census Place: Flinn, Lawrence, Indiana; Roll: 158; Page: 437B.