On This Day - Jan 9th

On This Day...

1778 - Birth: John Higginbotham, Amherst County, Virginia

1813 - Birth: Michael Adam Gaar, Georgia

1815 - Marriage: Nathaniel Straughan and Catherine Conrad, Kentucky

1832 - Birth: Margaret Schmidt , Gonderingen, Luxembourg

1844 - Death: Mary Smith, Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachusetts

1851 - Birth: Emma M Rowe, Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

1874 - Birth: Anna Eleanor Olmstead, Henry, Illinois

1888 - Marriage: Michael Henz and Mary Ann Lommel, Holy Angels Cathedral, Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota

1891 - Birth: Lucius W. Gulledge, Alto, Cherokee County, Texas

1892 - Death: Berry Belcher, Indiana

1892 - Death: Mary Ann Trusty, Indiana

1901 - Death: William Spencer  "Buddy" Smith, Winn Parish, Louisiana

1916 - Death: Mable Williams,

1919 - Death: Mary Melinda Courtney, Satsuma, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

1940 - Death: Sylvester Sims Courtney, Holden, Livingston Parish, Louisiana

1945 - Death: Roy Spencer Fisher, Seattle, King County, Washington

1947 - Death: Elizabeth Lucy Beumel,

1950 - Death: William Morrison, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

2000 - Death: Eva Louise McMurry, Winnfield, Winn Parish, Louisiana

My aunt Eva Louise McMurry was a genteel southern woman.  I got to meet her a couple of times when I was younger.  I regret that I did not get to visit with her after I started doing genealogy.  Visiting her was the only time I've been to the French Quarter in New Orleans. 




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