More about the Witty family...Eugenia Almeda's siblings...
Fanny Witty, next oldest sister of Eugenia Witty Booth
She was a Valentine baby, Fanny (Frances Malone) Witty Gee born on Feb. 14, 1850 in Limestone, Alabama.
Her first census listing was when she was 4 months old, and the
penmanship is so illegible the transcriber calls her Thomas, though a
female child. At least by 1860, when her family had moved to Texas, she
was listed as Fanny.
She married at 17, to Richard A. Gee who had been born in 1833 in
Tennessee (17 years older than she was). Some of his records say he was
born in Virginia, where his parents were born. They raised 7 children,
who all lived to be adults, and had 19 grandchildren. Some of her
children and grandchidlren lived into their 90s, and one, Ethel M.
Stingily, lived to 100, dying in 2013.
Many of the death certificates in the early 1900s show how hypertension
was a killer in my family. I've seen this on many Booth records. I'm
so glad there is medication now (which I can take.)
Fanny herself was 73 when she died in 1923.
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One of these men is Richard Albert Gee...I don't know the other, nor which one he is. |
Her husband, Richard Albert Gee (Rag, which are his initials) was a
Sergeant in the Confederacy, and thus had a veterans grave marker
when he died in 1930 at age 96.
Another Sister of Eugenia Witty Booth
Mary Elizabeth Witty Hughes was 6 years older than my great great grandmother, Eugenia Witty Booth.
Great Aunt Mary Beth (I'm guessing
that that was her name because my own sister went by that nickname as a
young girl) was born in 1848, also in Alabama, the 4th child of Susan
Hoke Witty and Carroll Witty.
In Limestone County, Alabama in
1850, the Wittys were farmers, and grandfather Joseph Hoke, age 57 was
living with them as well. At that time the next family listed in the
census were Jackson Witty, a brother of Carroll Witty's, actually named
Andrew Jackson Witty. When Carroll went to Texas around 1850-52, Andrew
Jackson Witty stayed in Alabama.
But let's look at Great Aunt Mary
Beth a bit more. By 1860 she was 12 and living in Hill County, Texas.
Then when she was 19 she married Isaac Butler Hughes, who apparently
went by his middle name on most records.
They had 2 children: James M. Hughes who lived just from 1867-1876, and Alice Dovie Hughes Felts, 1869-1893.
But the same year that their son
died, so did Aunt Mary Beth, on July 2, 1876. She is buried with her
husband, who had died just the year before, on 10 August 1875.
His
headstone is broken, but her's has been somewhat repaired. It's
interesting to note that her initial is wrong "M". They are in the same
cemetery as her parents and other family members, The Old Woodbury
Cemetery, Hill County, Texas.
I
was trying to find out if Alice had any children, who would be my
cousins of course...but there wasn't much information on her, besides a
name J. B. Felts for her husband, but no information on him.
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