Figure of the Week

John W. Leddon (1876-1945) seems to have been a waterman on Aquia Creek and the Potomac River. His mother was a Dickerson from Stafford. John lived in a little shack on the lower end of Coal Landing. He caught turtles in Aquia Creek and kept them in a pen next to his house. Water turtles were considered a delicacy and people purchased them from John and ate them. John W. Leddon was buried at Regester Chapel near Stafford Courthouse.