Ancestors of Degan Clarke Leggitt

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Ancestors of
Degan Clarke Leggitt
Roy C. Leggitt
184 Rainbow Drive #8448
Livingston, TX 77399-1084
[phone] [email protected]

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A. n. .c e. s. t.o .r .s .o .f . D. .e g. a. n. . C. l. a. r.k . e. L. .e .g .g .i t.t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 .
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. . F. o. u. r. t.h . .G . e.n . e.r .a .t i. o. n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 .
. . F. i.f t. h. .G . e. n. e. r. a. t.i o. n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 .7 .
. . S. i.x .t h. .G . .e n. .e r. a. t.i .o .n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 .0 .
. . S. e. v. e.n . t.h . G. .e .n .e .r .a .t i.o .n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 .8 .
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. . N. i. n. t.h . G. .e .n .e .r .a .t i.o .n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 .3 .8 .
. . T. e. n. t. h. .G . e. n. e. r.a .t .i o. n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 .8 .4 .
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First Generation
1. Degan Clarke Leggitt,1 son of Roy Dean Leggitt and Barbara
Lynne Kolander, was born on 11 Jul 1994 in Riverside, Riverside,
California.1
General Notes: Born 3:47 AM. 8.57 pounds, 19.75 inches in
length.1
Second Generation (Parents)
2. Roy Dean Leggitt,1 son of Major Roy Clarke Leggitt USAF
(Retired) and Della Elaine Eveland, was born on 10 Oct 1963 in
Anchorage, Anchorage District, Alaska.1
General Notes: In 1993 Roy worked as an ornamental iron
worker in Crestline, CA.

In 1996 Roy took a position as a supervisor in a privately run
drug rehabilitation program in Big Bear, CA.

In 1997 the rehabilitation program was relocated from
California. As a result, California offered Roy retraining as a
long-haul truck driver. In January, 1998, Roy began driving for
US Xpress Trucking Corporation as a cross country driver.

Because of his mobility, Roy is able to visit his children in
Colorado and California on a regular basis.

On several occasions his paths cross with those of his dad who
is a full-time RVer and they get a quick visit. They have met in
California, Arizona, Washington, and Oregon.

Roy lives with his mate Sharon Markham in Hisperia, California. They married on June 12, 2004.

In 2007 Roy was able to gain employment as aWal-Mart driver which limited his driving area to just the
west coast. It gives him much more time with his young children.1

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Roy married Michelle Christine Hull,1 daughter of Ronald Wayne
Hull and Caroline Susanne Jensen, in Mar 1985 in Julian, San Diego,
California. The marriage ended in divorce.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Wayne Alan Leggitt was born on 5 Nov 1984 in
Escondido, San Diego, California, USA.1
ii. Sandra Elaine Leggitt was born on 7 Aug 1986 in
Escondido, San Diego, California.1
iii. Carolyn Rose Leggitt was born on 16 Sep 1988 in
San Diego, San Diego, California.1
Roy had a relationship with Barbara Lynne Kolander.1 Marriage
status: had a relationship with.
Children from this marriage were:
1 i. Degan Clarke Leggitt
ii. Shane Christopher Leggitt was born on 10 Jul
1996 in Cedarpines Park, San Bernardino,
California.1
Roy next married Sharon Markham, daughter of James Earl
Markham and Carol Jennings, on 12 Jun 2004 in Riverside, Riverside,
California.
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Wedding: A fresh new day . . . and it is ours
A day of happy beginnings
When we, Sharon Markham
And Roy Leggitt
Pledge our love as one
On Saturday, June twelfth
Two thousand four
At Eleven a.m.

Community Church of Religious Science
3891 Ridge Road
Riverside, California

Our joy will be more complete if you
Can share in this celebration of life.

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General Notes: Sharon holds a management position with the United Parcel Service office in Ontario,
California.

However, after moving to Hisperia about 2003, Sharon began working as a salesperson at Living Spaces.
She quickly became their outstanding salesperson.

In 2007 she obtained her California real estate license and is considering chaning to that profession.
3. Barbara Lynne Kolander1 was born on 3 May 1963 in Glendale,
Los Angeles, California.1
Barbara had a relationship with Roy Dean Leggitt.1 Marriage status:
had a relationship with.
Barbara next married.
Her children were:
i. Charles Gerald Winston Head was born on 6
Aug 1982 in Duarte, , California.
ii. Ryan Michael Kolander Reiter was born on 1
Dec 1988 in San Bernardino, San Bernardino,
California.
iii. Kiona Summer Rose Kolander was born on 21
Jun 1992 in Redlands, San Bernardino, California.
Third Generation (Grandparents)
4. Major Roy Clarke Leggitt USAF (Retired),1 son of Roy Alonzo
Young and Clara Clark Leggitt, was born on 6 Apr 1933 in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma.1 Other names for Roy are Jay Clark
Smith, 1 and Samuel James (Jay) Purdy. 1
General Notes: Early Life:

Roy was born during the Great Depression just at the beginning
of the Oklahoma dust bowl His parents were not married.

(In 1994, Mae Leggitt Finney related a story whereas there had
been consideration by Inez Hussey Leggitt, Roy's grandmother,
of placing him up for adoption shortly after his birth. His great
grandmother Elizabeth Capps Hussey put an end to that by
stating there would be no adoption of any of her great
grandchildren.) His grandmother, who didn't like the name Roy,
called him Jay.

In January 1934 his mother and he moved in with the Samuel Purdy family in Carter, Oklahoma. Clara
worked as their housekeeper and finished high school there in 1936. By 1937 the Purdy family could no
longer support themselves in Oklahoma because of the severity of the dust bowl. In September 1937
they migrated to southern California.

Roy went to first through third grade as Samuel James (Jay) Purdy. After his mother's marriage in 1941
to Leonard Smith, without adoption, his name was changed to Jay Clark Smith. He went to 17 grammar
schools and four high schools, graduating from Modesto High School, CA, in 1951. Roy worked as a
janitor, shoe salesman, operating engineer, and carpenter until joining the United States Air Force in
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November, 1952. During that period he and his family lived in Nevada, central, and southern California.

Military Life:

Roy joined the United States Air Force 26 November 1952. He served as an enlisted ground radio
operator and attained the rank of staff sergeant. Just prior to his marriage in 1955 Roy changed his name
from Jay Clark Smith back to his legal birth name, Roy Clarke Leggitt.

Upon completion of officer candidate school he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1959. He
served as a communications officer and later as a communications-electronics staff officer.

Roy attended night college courses until he was able to complete his two final semesters at the Alaska
Methodist University. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences (Magna Cum Laude) in
1965. In 1969 Roy completed his Masters of Science in Information Sciences degree from the Georgia
Institute of Technology.

During his tour with the USAF, Roy was stationed in California, Mississippi, Japan, Iwo Jima, Iowa,
New Mexico, Azores, Texas, Mississippi, Shemya Island, Alaska, Mississippi, Iowa, Georgia, Belgium,
and Oklahoma. Roy retired from USAF as a major on 31 August 1974.

For a more detailed description of Roy's military service, go to the Internet and select
http://www.ocs59c.com/Leggitt.html.

Post Military Life:

Two days after retiring from the USAF Roy began working with NCR Corporation in San Diego as a
software quality analyst and later as a programmer analyst. He worked primarily in telecommunications
programming.

In 1976 he became bored with his job and obtained his real estate sales license. He worked mostly in the
Poway, California area. While working there he met his future wife-to-be, Darlene.

In 1978 he went back to NCR as a senior software quality analyst and later as a consulting analyst.

After their children were grown, Roy and his wife of nearly 28 years grew apart and divorced in 1983.

In 1984 Roy changed over from the commercial side to the defense industry side of software quality
engineering with the Cubic Defense Corporation in San Diego. He worked as a software quality engineer
and later as a software quality engineering technical specialist. Again, his specialty was in
telecommunications programming.

In 1987 Roy married his present wife Darlene.

His aim for several years was to retire when he reached 59 1/2 years of age. On schedule, Roy retired in
October 1992.

Retirement Years:

Roy now pursues genealogy as his principle pastime. After his wife Darlene retired a day after her fifty-
fith birthday in 1996 they spent a considerable amount of time each year touring America in their
recreational vehicle from their home base in San Diego. In January 1997, after they decided they enjoyed
RVing so much, they sold their house in San Diego, bought a new diesel powered 37' Holiday Rambler
Endeavor LE, and became full time RVers. Darlene drives and Roy navigates. Using his laptop computer
and a two-way DirecWay satellite Internet connection, Roy still pursues his online genealogical quest.

They spend their winters on the Colorado River near Parker, Arizona. Starting in early spring and
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continuing through late fall they travel to a selected area of the United States. They try to visit family and
friends in central Nevada and southern California twice a year. By the end of 1997 they had traveled to
each of the contiguous 48 states and in early 1998 ventured down into Mexico.

They still have the traveling bug. In June 2002 they upgraded their home-on-wheels to a new, custom
built 2002 41' Monaco Windsor diesel pusher with three slide out compartments. Darlene still does all
the driving.

Great Adventure:

To read about some of their great adventures, go to . To see where they are camped now, go to
tinyurl.com/6gqsz.1

Noted events in his life were:
• AKA: Alternate names:.1 Roy's birth certificate shows his
name as Roy Clarke Leggitt. His maternal grandmother did not
like the name Roy so he was called Jay.

When he was about nine months old he and his mother were
taken in by the Samuel and Bonnie Purdy family. When he
started school, he was registered as Samuel James "Jay"
Purdy. He used this name in the first through third grades.

When his mother married Leonard Smith, without adoption,
his name was changed to Jay Clark Smith. He completed
school and joined the United States Air Force using this name.
During his early Air Force career his friends called him Smitty.

Just prior to his marriage in 1955 he formally changed his
name back to Roy Clarke Leggitt. However, most of his
maternal family members still call him Jay.

• Full-time RVing: Roy and Darlene are now on their fourth
recreation vehicle. This is their current home on wheels. You
can see what it looks like on the Internet. Go to
http://members1.clubphoto.com/roy28255/1136091/. While
there, look around and share some of their great adventures.

• DNA: In 2007 I had my Y-chromosome analyzed. Here is
some of that analysis:

Your Predicted Haplogroup: R1b (prediction confidence
100.0%) Haplogroup R1b, defined by the SNP marker M343,
is part of the ancestral R1-M173 of which ancestors first
arrived first arrived in Europe from West Asia during the
Upper Paleolithic period (35,000-40,000 years ago) at the
beginning of the Aurignacian culture. This culture is one of the
first within Europe to leave cave-art and their stone tools were
more refined than previous periods. The Périgordian culture is
also considered by some to have existed at this time. As the
last ice-age began, it became necessary to move down to below
the tree-line to hunt game. At its peak, the ice shelf within Europe extended down as far as southern
Ireland, the middle of England and across northern Germany.

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Scandinavia was entirely covered. The sea-ice pack extended as far as northern Spain and tundra
covered much of continental Europe. The tree-line at the height of the ice-age was as far south as
Southern France, Northern Italy, north of the Balkans and across the Black Sea.

People with Haplogroup R1 Y-chromosomes retreated to below these regions where they established
themselves. During this period, the mutation which defines R1b (M343) likely developed within the
Iberian Peninsula. As the ice-age ended and the fauna and flora were able to move northward again,
people in R1b also migrated north. Haplogroup R1 appears in about 50% of the total European
whereas R1b remains by far the most common haplogroup in Western Europe (Spain, Portugal, France,
UK and Ireland). R1b3, one of the most successful clades, has it's origins about 11,800 years ago.
Within the British Isles, a genetic pattern called the Atlantic Modal Haplotype (AMH) features greatly
among the Irish and Welsh. Some researchers consider this haplotype to be representative of the early
Celtic migrations. Haplogroup R1b is prevalent within South America given the influx of Iberian Y-
chromosomes to the continent over the last 500 years.

The picture to the right shows the probability of my distant ancestral origin.

Roy married Della Elaine Eveland1 on 6 Oct 1955 in Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa. The marriage ended in
divorce in Feb 1983.
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Marriage in The Little Brown Church: Roy and Elaine were married
in the Little Brown Church in the Vale in Nashua, Iowa.
Children from this marriage were:
i. Derald Wayne Leggitt was born on 1 Dec 1956 in
Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico.1
ii. Alan Clarke Leggitt was born on 10 Oct 1959 in
Biloxi, Jackson, Mississippi.1
2 iii. Roy Dean Leggitt
Roy next married Darlene Grace Osborne,1 daughter of Earl
Richard Osborne and Sibyl Milholland, on 26 Apr 1987 in Rancho
Bernardo, San Diego, California.
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