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Leeds Parish has often been a witness to history. The church building was occupied during the Civil War by Northern and Southern soldiers; one wall was pierced by an artillery shell from a nearby hostile engagement. Lee and Longstreet's troops marched past (on what is now Route 688) on their way to the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg. Confederate General Turner Ashby was a member of the parish. Dr. James Markham Ambler, a communicant of the parish, lost his life in the Jeannette Artic Expedition of 1881 because of his heroic refusal to leave his dying patients. Dr. Ambler is buried in Leeds Cemetery and his grave is marked by a stone column erected in his memory by the U.S. Navy.
The following link contains photographs of many of the tombstones in Leeds Cemetery including that of Dr. Ambler.