Sibley, Evelyn Austin (b. ?)
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Submitter: Ivy Daughtery Burge
Subject: Evelyn Austin Ashworth
Message: Evelyn Austin Davis daughter of Telitha Caroline Burge Sibley was born in DeRidder, Beauregard, La. about 1903-07.
Big Evelyn (as she was called by family)had a daughter, Evelyn (called little Evelyn).. Little Evelyn married Tuck Ashworth some time shortly after 1950. Little Evelyn attended business collage in Beaumont, Texas and became Mrs America after marrying Tuck Ashworth. Do you know of these Ashworths? Thank you,
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A. Dianne Burge Fogleman:
"a rich merchant in Monticello, Mississippi."
1830 Orleans Parish, La., census B Thomas McGuire:
one male - 30 to 40 (BB 1790-1800)
one female - 20 to 30 (BB 1800-1810)
one female slave
McGuire died between 1830 and 1835,
B: OMO RANCH:
Thomas McGuire of Monticello, Ms. die while trying to ford the Pearl River after a storm. He was driving a wagon of load of supplies and drowned while fording the river.
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A. Dianne Burge Fogleman:
Around 1835 Mary Annette Burge McGuire married a lawyer, John Jones McRae, in Pearlington, Hancock County, Ms. McRae was born Jan. 10, 1815, McFarlan, North Carolina.
In 1837, John J. McRae founded the Eastern Clarion newspaper at Paulding, Jasper County, Ms. In December 1839, he ran an ad in the Southern Sun newspaper to sell his paper. The ad stated "to make application to propriator at JacksonY"
1840 census of Copiah County, Ms., listed John McRae's household as follows:
one male - 30 to 40 (BB 1800-1810)
two males - 10 to 15 (BB 1825-1830)
two males - 5 to 10 (BB 1830-1835)
one female - 30 to 40 (BB 1800-1810)
one female - 15 to 20 (BB 1820-1825)
two females - 0 to 5 (BB 1835-1840)
In 1841, John J. and Mary Annette Burge McRae were in Jasper County, Ms., and listed on Clarke County, Ms., deeds.
In February 1842, John J. McRae succeeded in running a steamboat from Lake Ponchartrain to Enterprise, Clarke County, Ms. (the town he founded) and return.
In 1845, the couple lived in Clarke County, Ms.; listed on Clarke County deeds.
In 1847, McRae was in Clarke County on a guardian bond.
In October 1849, he witnessed the will of Nancy A. Slack.
In 1850, the McRaes were on the Clarke County, Ms., census (no data), and he was listed as an attorney.
In 1851, John J. McRae was appointed to succeed Jefferson Davis in the US Senate. In 1853, he was elected Governor of Mississippi. In 1855, he was elected Governor a second term and served until 1857.
The McRaes were listed as residents of Jackson County, Ms., formerly of Clarke County in 1857; Wayne County, Ms., in 1858 and 1859; and in February 1861, a newspaper article stated they moved from State Line, Ms., to Bucktunna, Wayne County, Ms.
Mary Annette Burge McGuire McRae died Mar. 19, 1866, age 52, in Mobile, , and is also buried in Mobile.
In July 1866, McRae sold land in Clarke County, Ms., and was listed as a resident of Wayne County, Ms.
John J. McRae died May 31, 1868, of consumption in Belize, Ms., while on a visit to his brother, Colin J. McRae.
Copiah County, Ms. John McRae (1840 census)
Jackson County, Ms. - Mary Annette & McRae, "formerly of Clarke County, now Jackson County" (1857)
Jasper County, Ms. McRae founded newspaper (1837); Larkin Collins (1840 census); John & Mary Annette residents (1841) Clarke County deeds; Martha Smith Beard (1850 census); James W. Smith m. 1851; paid taxes 1853, 1856; Mary Annette visited (1860); Sarah Anne Bene Smith & children (1860 census
B: OMO RANCH:
He was Govenor of Mississippi:
Some info on John McRae from the Napier book: It states John McRae was born 10 Jan. 1815 in N.C. He was reading law with Judge Rutilius Pray in Pearlington when he met and married Mary Burge McGuire in Oct. 1835. It says she was eleven years older than he was. After the Civil War his wife & mother died (doesn't say when) and he went to Belize, British Honduras to join his brother Colin McRae who had been a Confederate representative there. It says John McRae died there 31 may 1868 & was buried there.
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A. Dianne Burge Fogleman: Neshoba County, Ms. Mary Annette & McRae's son died in Pa., in Neshoba newsaper 1844; their daughter in Pa., in Neshoba newspaper 1844;
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A. Dianne Burge Fogleman:
Greene County, Ms. Colin McRae, s/o Mary Annette/McRae died (1860)
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