Thank You for the additional information.
I had always heard that there was more to the obit than what I found. I was
starting to think maybe I had the wrong newspaper.
The good thing about the Feb 10 obit is that it gives a specific date of
death.
Michael
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Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 12:33 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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