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Eda Ann “Edie” <I>Feagin</I> Carter

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Eda Ann “Edie” Feagin Carter

Birth
Mississippi, USA
Death
22 May 1893 (aged 41)
Leonard, Fannin County, Texas, USA
Burial
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Eda Ann Feagin daughter of Archibald Feagin and Sarah Ann Carpenter born on August 10, 1851 in Mississippi married John Hamilton Carter, son of Green Berry Carter, Jr., and Elizabeth Jane Murley on September 22, 1871 in Tippah Co, Mississippi. Edie, John and their three oldest children migrated to Texas in 1881.

Edie & John had 7 children: Emma Elizabeth (Robert Black), Green Dewitt Carter (Mattie Belle Hopper), Alice A. (Plummer Hunsucker/Monroe Davidson), Minnie Ola (Jefferson Casey), D Wiley died 1 yr, John Daniel (Lillie Biggerstaff/Clara Brown Conarroe), J H (20 mth).

On her death bed Edie asked John to marry again quickly, so that her children would not be motherless and gave her blessing to marry her friend Mary Ann Owens, John's step sister. John and Mary Ann Owens were married on September 19, 1893, just 4 months after Edie's death. Edie's love for her family was almost divine and she knew Mary Ann would love her children as her very own which Mary Ann did.
Eda Ann Feagin daughter of Archibald Feagin and Sarah Ann Carpenter born on August 10, 1851 in Mississippi married John Hamilton Carter, son of Green Berry Carter, Jr., and Elizabeth Jane Murley on September 22, 1871 in Tippah Co, Mississippi. Edie, John and their three oldest children migrated to Texas in 1881.

Edie & John had 7 children: Emma Elizabeth (Robert Black), Green Dewitt Carter (Mattie Belle Hopper), Alice A. (Plummer Hunsucker/Monroe Davidson), Minnie Ola (Jefferson Casey), D Wiley died 1 yr, John Daniel (Lillie Biggerstaff/Clara Brown Conarroe), J H (20 mth).

On her death bed Edie asked John to marry again quickly, so that her children would not be motherless and gave her blessing to marry her friend Mary Ann Owens, John's step sister. John and Mary Ann Owens were married on September 19, 1893, just 4 months after Edie's death. Edie's love for her family was almost divine and she knew Mary Ann would love her children as her very own which Mary Ann did.


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