Youngest of six children born to Colonel James Turner Morehead (1799-1975) and his wife Mary Teas Lindsay (1813-1847), Mary Harper "Mamie" Lindsay attended Edgeworth Female Seminary, which was founded by her uncle, Gov. John Motley Morehead. There is a fascinating account of her presenting a flag to the Guilford Grays militia regiment in 1860, when she was elected May Queen, in the book "Silk Flags and Cold Steel: The Civil War in the North Carolina Piedmont," by William S. Trotter. Mamie never married, and is buried near her parents.
Youngest of six children born to Colonel James Turner Morehead (1799-1975) and his wife Mary Teas Lindsay (1813-1847), Mary Harper "Mamie" Lindsay attended Edgeworth Female Seminary, which was founded by her uncle, Gov. John Motley Morehead. There is a fascinating account of her presenting a flag to the Guilford Grays militia regiment in 1860, when she was elected May Queen, in the book "Silk Flags and Cold Steel: The Civil War in the North Carolina Piedmont," by William S. Trotter. Mamie never married, and is buried near her parents.
Inscription
"As the bird to its sheltering nest, When the storm and chill is abroad,So Her spirit has flown from this world of unrest.To repose in the bosom of God." Transcript courtesy of C. Moore.
Family Members
Advertisement
Records on Ancestry
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
