As Mother's Day Tribute to Cavitt Mothers, let's all post something about our
closest Cavitt Mother.
My closest Cavitt mother was Mary Cavitt (b.1777),
daughter of Richard Cavitt. Mary married William
Lapsley Armstrong, son of Revolutionary War patriot
William Armstrong and his wife Jane Lapsley.
Of course, I knew nothing of her personally, but I know that she raised ten children in a
log cabin, without Gerbers OR Pampers, so she must have been very dedicated to her role as
Mother.
At least three of her children migrated, as adults, to
Robertson County, Texas, and one of them became
a delegate to the Texas Constitutional Convention,
and hence, was among those who carved a state out
of a land that was, at the time, largely prairie.
Helen