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From: "Norma Preston" <>
Subject: Re: [CALVIT] Obit of Mary Dean Calvit Higdon
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:09:37 -0400


Hi, Suzanne and Latayne--

Thank you for the copy of the obit of our ancestor, Mary Dean Calvit Higdon!
I still am so glad that I bought Latayne's book.

Norma Calvit-Hooker Preston
Hillsborough, NC


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Date: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:34 AM
Subject: Re: [CALVIT] Obit of Mary Dean Calvit Higdon


> Michael's message refers to the original death notice of Feb. 10,
> 1807. A more complete obit ran a week later, also in The
> Mississippi Messenger - dated February 17, 1807.
> A Good Inheritance, by Francis Stuart Harmon, page 168 reads in
> part: "She (Mary Higdon) died in the 85th year of her age in 1807,
> in the town of Washington six miles east of Natchez where her
> two story home still stands between Highway 61 and Jefferson
> Military College. A weekly paper, The Mississippi Messenger, in its
> Natchez issue of Tuesday, February 17, 1807 stated:
>
> "Mrs. Mary Higdon, whose death we announced last week,
> had resided in this Territory 25 years and had born* during
> her lifetime 14 children, 65 grandchildren, 70 great-grandchildren,
> 6 great-great grandchildren. She lived to see the fifth generation.
> All the surviving posterity are living in this Territory."
>
> (*spelling is per original quote)
>
> Suzanne
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