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Mons. Francis Le Clercq was a man of fine education, and born in Annis, France, January 8th, 1773; came with the first colonists; taught school at Gallipolis, and married Eulalie C. Marret, about 1808, who died January 12, 1809. Nine months afterward he married Marie Louise Cadot, a young lady whom he met at the Grant while engaged in surveying town lots of what was then Burrsburg, now Haverhill. For more than twenty-five years he was clerk of the court in Gallia county, and postmaster at Gallipolis for the same length of time. He was a Whig in politics and a member of the order of Free Masons. He was a highly respected citizen during his active life, and died November 17th, 1837, in his 64th year, and with his first wife, is buried in the Gallipolis cemetery.