Published in the June 8, 1910 Pilot, Blair, Nebraska

Mrs. Mary E. Sutton died at 1:40 Sunday morning of old age, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ben Sheffield, and the funeral was held at the Methodist church at 3 o'clock Monday afternoon, Rev. Lang officiating. Deceased was born in Washington County, Va., and was 73 years, 5 months and 17 days old at the time of her death. She was married in 1853 and her husband died about 17 years ago. After his death, she came west and has lived around with the children. They are Mrs. Ben Sheffield, Mrs. John Nelson, Mrs. R. L. Stalkup, C.R. and Walter Sutton in this county; two sons in Oklahoma; and one daughter and two sons in Virginia.

from the June 9, 1910 Tribune, Blair, Nebraska

Mary E. Sutton died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. B. F. Sheffield, five miles south of Blair, at the age of 73 years, 5 months and 21 days. She was born in Washington county, Va., Dec. 14, 1836, and at the age of 16 was married to John W. Sutton at Abington. To this union fourteen children were born, and of them, ten children and twenty-two grandchildren survive her. Two sons and one daughter live in Virginia; two sons in Oklahoma; one daughter in Colorado; and two sons and two daughters here. The funeral was held Monday at 3 o'clock and the body interred in the Blair cemetery.

Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska

Age: 68*

*NOTE The obituary appears to have the correct year of birth as opposed to the headstone. Census records and marriage year, as compared to age at time of marriage and the birth of Mary's oldest known child, appear to support the birth year of 1836.

However, the present evidence I have by way of the stone and cemetery record carries the greater weight per Find A Grave guidance, so the birth year of 1841 was entered on the memorial.

I would most certainly welcome any further evidence, such as a birth certificate, which can support a year of birth of 1836.

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Not sure what the connection is here, if any, but there is a George C Pemberton buried in Colby Morley Cemetery in Arlington. He was born in 1825 and was married at roughly age 33 to Marguret, He died in 1903 and this application was filed two years before his death:

George G Pemberton, "United States, Remarried Widows Index to Pension Applications, 1887-1942"
Name: George G Pemberton
Event Type: Pension
Event Date: 1901
Event Place: United States
Beneficiary's Name: Mary E Sutton
Affiliate Publication Title: Index to Pension Application Files of Remarried Widows Based on Service in the Civil War and Later Wars and in the Regular Army after the Civil War
Affiliate Publication Number: M1785
Affiliate Film Number: 007
GS Film number: 002155469
Digital Folder Number: 005240860
Image Number: 00161

Somehow there is a Pemberton and Sutton connection???

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Mary E Sheffield, "United States Census, 1910"
Name: Mary E Sheffield
Event Place: Blair, Washington, Nebraska
Marital Status: Widowed
Birthplace: Virginia
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia

SELF Mary E Sheffield F 48y Virginia
MOTH Mary E Sutten F 73y Virginia
Maude Sutten F 19y VA, Niece (age is off, but possibly # 27215192)
Fred Becraft M 40y Nebraska

Currently Known Family Members:

John F. Sutton, b 1829 in NC and d 15 August 1891, Virginia.

Mary E /Johnson, b 14 December 1841, Virginia and d 10 January 1910, Blair, Washington, Nebraska.

Known Children (Of 14 children, 10 survived her, but 11 were possibly mentioned in her combined obits. Not sure about the daughter in Colorado):

Two sons and one daughter live in Virginia:

John is the other son ?

One daughter in Colorado

Nancy, or Hattie is the daughter

X William James Sutton, 1853 -1925 (one of two sons in Virginia)
X Margaret Jane "Jane / Jennie" Sutton Parris, 1854-1929 (One daughter that lives in Virginia)

NL Nancy A. Sutton, AKA Nannie Sutton, b 12 Mar 1856 in Upper District, Washington, Virginia. Res VA in 1870 and Carriage Mill, Carter, Tennessee, United States in 1880.

NL George W. Sutton, b March 1858 in Virginia and d 7 October 1861 at Washington, Virginia. (deceased at time of mother's death)

X John W. Sutton, 1860-1934

X Chester R. Sutton, 1870-1945 (One of 5 Local child)
X Mary Ellen Sutton Sheffield, 1862-1921 (One of 5 Local child)

NL Hattie Nettie Sutton, 1864 in VA - Deceased before 1940

X Martha Sutton Nelson, 1864-1940 (One of 5 Local child)
X Robert Sutton, 1866-1950 (One of the two sons in Oklahoma)
X Charles C Sutton, 1872-1954 (One of the two sons in Oklahoma)
X Walter Shepley Sutton, 1874-1942 (One of 5 Local child)
X Minnie Virginia Sutton Stalcup, 1876-1956 (One of 5 Local child)

NOTE: Possible maiden name of Johnson. She IS NOT the Mary E. Hamilton who married John F Sutton.

Mary Johnson is her name on 2 of her children's death certificate and on 1 marriage record ~ Contributor: Tennie Capps Bean (48635685)

John appears on John W's death cert as Mary's maiden name.