J. Francis Legrand
Goodspeed's History of Southeast Missouri
Biographies of Scott County, 1888
J. Francis Legrand was born in Belgium in 1828, on the 28th of January, and is a son of Henry J. and Mary Ann Legarand, natives of Belgium, who wee married in their native country. In 1846 Henry J. Legrand, with his family, set sail for the United States. Landing in New York City, they went to Massillon, Ohio and remained three years, when they came to Southeast Missouri and located in Scott County, one and one-half miles from New Hamburg. Henry J. Legrand was a carpenter by trade. He died in 1858, aged sixty-two years, and his wife in 1868, aged seventy-five years. J. Francis Legrand remained with his parents until he was twenty-three years of age, when he was married and began work for himself. In 1852 he came to his present farm in Moreland Township, Scott County, which at that time was heavily timbered. He now has 120 acres under a good state of cultivation, and fifty acres of fine timbered land. In 1878 he was elected judge of the county court in the Second District, and was re-elected in 1880. He has also served as school director fifteen years. In 1850 his marriage with Mary Charlier was celebrated the 26th of November. She was born in Belgium, and came with her parents to the Untied States in 1846. The parents first located in Ohio, but later came to Cape Girareau County, Mo., where she was married. To Mr. And Mrs. Legrand have been born eight children. Joseph died at the age of eighteen; Anna died when six months old; Louis married Mary Hakes, and they have two children; Nicholas married Regina Westrich, and they have one child; Mary (wife of Adam Dionberger) is the mother of two daughter; John B. Shot himself accidentally at the age of sixteen; Leo and Felix are at home. Mrs. Legrand died February 13, 1886. Mr. Legrand is an earnest member of the Catholic Church at New Hamburg.
Submitted by Connie Perkins
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