James, I am not familiar with that book! Sorry!
Norma
-----Original Message-----
From: James Sanders <sanders(a)iopener.net>
To: CALVIT-L(a)rootsweb.com <CALVIT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Date: Sunday, July 28, 2002 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [CALVIT] Obit of Mary Dean Calvit Higdon
Hi Norma,
Can you tell me where I can purchase the book "A good Inheritance" by
Francis Stuart
Harmon? Lucretia Calvit Cheatham was my gggrandmother, she married
Francis
Gardere
Henderson.
Thank you in advance,
James Dean Sanders
Norma Preston wrote:
>
> 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
> normachp(a)mindspring.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: LSStanfill(a)aol.com <LSStanfill(a)aol.com>
> To: CALVIT-L(a)rootsweb.com <CALVIT-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> 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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