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The Boone County History Book, 1984 page 21 states;
He was born in mannheim on the Rhine River in Germany, on July 8, 1733. He died in
Fayette and is buried at the Mt. Tabor Cemetery September 16, 1845.
Leap was educated in Germany for the prisesthood in the Catholic Church and could speak
seven languages. He later forsook Catholicism and on his hundredth birthday joined the
Baptist Church at Fayette and was baptized in nearby White Lick Creek.
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