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From: Martha Marble <>
Subject: Re: [NCGREENE] Darden, Swinson - the case of the corpse
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 14:34:36 -0400

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>Subject: Re: [NCGREENE] Darden, Swinson
>From: Trish Worthington Cobb <>
>To: Martha Marble <>
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>Martha,
>
>Not trying to be too testy, but am I reading this wrong? Didn't it say
>Claodesha departed this life on May 8th and was married on May 11th.
>If all this had happened in May 1831, Henry married a corpse.
>
>Trish
>

Trish,

I do need a good chuckle every once in awhile. For some reason I was fixed
on marriage on the 8th and died on the 11th - not the other way around. He
would have indeed married a corpse which would have been frowned on.

We need someone to take a look at the original Bible which is in Wilson as
I understand it - must have been a mistake in all of the transcriptions
floating around - or several mistakes.

In addition the 1860 Census needs to be checked to see if Henry was still
alive. Maybe he did move to Duplin Co - kind of strange none of these
people are on the cemetery lists. The question still remains - who was the
mother of all these children? ANd how many wives did old Henry have?

Oh this is good - from Ima's notes, Abraham Swinson son of Henry and BERCHY
married Martha Taylor and two of their children married into the
Mewborn/Hardy family. I don't think that is right. Abraham was the son of
one of the Darden girls.

Thanks for straightening me out.

Martha

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