MRS. ANN LEADBETTER, Montfort; was born in Butler Co., near Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1814. She removed to what is now Peoria, Ill., in 1827, and thence to Galena the following year. She is one of the few early settlers remaining whose memories date back to years preceding the noted Black Hawk war, and who remember vividly the stirring events of that period. She was married in 1828, near Galena, to Mr. Samuel Moore. They came to Grant Co. in 1848. Her second husband, Mr. Leadbetter, died in California. She has seven children - Nancy Jane Moore, Eugene Moore, Alexander Moore and Susan Moore (now Mrs. Parish); by second marriage - Martha, Lucretia and Asopheena.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.