Shelby County TN Biographies
PRESLEY ROSS PEYTON
Submitted by Brenda B. Watson
Presley Ross Peyton P.R., 20 years old, lived with his 45 year old, widowed mother, Sarah Peyton, in Memphis, Shelby, Tennessee by 1850 (5th District). (The 1840 Shelby County, Tennessee Census lists Sarah Peyton with several children.) Presley was born 14 Nov 1828 in Kentucky and died bef. 1870 Shelby County, Tennessee. He married (1) Indiana Leake and (2) Martha Brooks, both daughters of early settlers to Shelby County.
Presley Ross Peyton married (1) Indiana Herodine Leake 31 Jan 1854. She was born ca. 1823 in Goochland Co., Virginia to Richard Leake (ca. 1794 VA July 1850 Shelby Co., TN) and Sophie T. Anderson (24 Jan 1797 - 27 Oct 1830). Richard, his second wife/sister-in-law, Mary T. Anderson, and his brother, Col. Samuel Leake, migrated to Shelby County ca. 1833. Indiana died bef. 1867 in the Morning Grove (Richards property) / Morning Sun area (Col. Sams property). Issue: Ellen S. Peyton (1857 Shelby, TN - 12/30/1931 Memphis) and India Leake Peyton (b. ca. 1859 Shelby, TN).
Indiana H. Leake married (1) James W. Lenow (25 Oct 1809 Southampton County, VA 1850, Louisville, KY) ca. 1842. Issue: Josephine Lenow (b. ca. 1844 Shelby, TN) and James Horace Lenow (b. ca. 1850 Shelby, TN). James W. Lenow married (1) a Virginian, Elizabeth Babb, bef. 1837. Issue: Frances Louisa Lenow (b. ca. 1837 VA) and John Henry Lenow (b. ca. 1839 TN).