Originally published: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 (edited)
Fanny Witty, next oldest sister of Eugenia Witty Booth, (my gg granmother)
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, (though one died at 19 years of age) 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.
Her 19 year old son who died, has a marker in the same cemetery where she was buried, but I can't find any photos of her marker. So I'm using his because I know how hard it must have been for a mother to lose a son when he had his whole life ahead of him.
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 ("Rags" 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.
Marker for John C. Gee, 1876-1892. In Covington Cemetery, Hill County Texas, where his mother Frances Malone Witty Gee is also buried (1850-1923).
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