Roderick Donald MCLEOD

Father: Norman Evans MCLEOD
Mother: Permelia Elizabeth HORNE

Family 1: Margaret Catherine GALLOWAY
Family 2: Mattie Judson NORRIS
  1. Martha Norris MCLEOD 
                                                                                                   _Donald MACLEOD _____________
                                                             _Captain-Lieut. Norman MACLEOD ______|_Christina MACLEOD __________
                             _Daniel MCLEOD ________________|
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                            |                               |_Jean (Jeanette) (Janette) MORRISON _|_Elizabeth MACLEOD __________
 _Norman Evans MCLEOD ______|
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|--Roderick Donald MCLEOD 
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|_Permelia Elizabeth HORNE _|
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!BIOGRAPHY: Martha Norris McLeod, "Roderick Donald McLeod: The Confederate and The Judge", THE CLAN MACLEOD MAGAZINE, Vol. III, No. 22, p. 103. Their son, Roderick Donald McLeod, was born at Amerious, Sumter County, Georgia, on 15th January, 1849 where he received his education and early military training. A staunch Southerner, he enelisted on the outbreak of the Civil War, soon after his fifteenth birthday, in G Company of the Seventh Regiment of Infantry, Georgia Reserve. By the close of the war McLeod was in command of a Company with the rank of Captain in the Third Regiment. In spite of his youth he carried himself as a real soldier and saw much active service, under "Stonewall" Jackson and other famous Confederate Generals. After the war young McLeod read law and was admitted to the Bar at Live Oak, Florida in 1873. While he was a member of the Bar for half a century, he was perhaps more widely known and exercised more influence through his career as a journalist. After practicing for a brief time in Live Oak, he moved to Tallahassee, and was one of the lawyers located in the state capital during reconstruction days. he established the forerunners of the modern Florida newspaper, "The Daily Democrat." Both personally and through his newspaper, he exercised a constructive influence in the development of the town of Oglethorpe of which he was mayor for four terms. During his period of office, the court house was built, the water and electric light plants were installed and other improvements inaugurated. In 1901 he was elected for the first time as Court Judge and held that office for over twenty years. During the Spanish-American war, he served as Lieutenant-Colonel on the Staff of Governor William D. Bloxham, and assisted in organising the State Militia. In 1913 he was Assistant Adjutant-General on the staff of Major General J. L. Inglis of the United Confederate Veterans and on 29th October 1915, he was promoted Brigadier-General commanding the First Brigade and was still the best shot in his command through nearing the age of seventy. The Brigadier (or Judge, as he preferred to be called) was twice married, first in 1871, to Miss Margaret Catherine Galloway, a relative of Bishop Galloway of So. Carolina. She died at Ellaville, Ga. in 1889. Three of the seven children of this union are still living. Secondly, he married Miss Mattle Judson Norris in 1891, by whom there are six children surviving. Roderick Donald retired in 1928 and passed to his rest in 1930 at Crawfordville, Ga. where he is buried -- honoured and respected by all who knew him for his staunch patriotism, help to his fellows at the Bar, in journalism and in the Army, but above all for his wise and understanding decisions on the Bench as County Judge.

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