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Mary E “Molly” Wynn

Birth
Yalobusha County, Mississippi, USA
Death
6 Aug 1879 (aged 24–25)
Yalobusha County, Mississippi, USA
Burial
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Mary E (Molly) Wynn (1854-78).
She and her sister Susan were living with an Adams family (probably Wynn family relatives) at Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia in 1870, and attending school there. Their mother and father had both died by this time.

Molly died of "scrofula" while at the William B. Winter plantation, Coffeeville.
Member of All Saints Episcopal Church, Grenada. She was buried at the Winter plantation (ref., All Saints Parish Register).

Abstract of the Bishop's register says that she died Aug. 6, 1878, but her death is listed on the 1880 Federal Mortality Schedules as occurring in August 1879.

1880 Mortality Schedules
Surname: Mary E. Wynn
Year: 1880
County:Yalobusha CO.
State:MS
Age:24
Gender:F (Female)
Month of Death: Aug
State of Birth: MS
ID#:198_382028
Occupation:NONE LISTED
Cause of Death:SCROFULA



The Wynn plantation was sold to William B. Winter about 1856. Mary Wynn was visiting at the R.B. Winter home (her own childhood home) in 1878 when she took sick with scrofula and died there. She was probably good friends with his daughters.
The "William B. Winter plantation" was a separate tract from the large plantation of his father, William Hooe Brown Winter Jr.(1817-1897), established in the 1840s.

William H. Winter Jr.'s mother Catherine (Kitty) Storke Washington Winter was the daughter of Henry Augustine Washington, second cousin of George Washington and Lewis Willis, the grandfather of Dr. William Taliaferro Willis and John Whitaker Willis of Grenada County. So William H. Brown Jr. was a 4th cousin of John Whitaker Willis who had a son and daughter married first cousins of Mary Williams Wynn.
William Brown Winter was also bondsman for Mary Williams Wynn's first cousin G.W. Mayhew Jr. when he married Mary E. Kendrick in 1866.
William Brown Winter was the father of William Aylmer Winter, state legislator and father of Mississippi Governor William Winter.

William Brown Winter married Amelia Fisher, daughter of Hon. Ephraim S. Fisher and Martha Townes; granddaughter of Armistead Terrell Townes and a connection of Fannie E. Leigh Wynn.

Mary Wynn's sister-in-law Fannie E. Leigh was the daughter of Fanny Eppes Lane and 1st Armistead Claiborne Leigh (her mother married 2nd Charles Gaines Armistead).

Mary E (Molly) Wynn (1854-78).
She and her sister Susan were living with an Adams family (probably Wynn family relatives) at Dinwiddie Court House, Virginia in 1870, and attending school there. Their mother and father had both died by this time.

Molly died of "scrofula" while at the William B. Winter plantation, Coffeeville.
Member of All Saints Episcopal Church, Grenada. She was buried at the Winter plantation (ref., All Saints Parish Register).

Abstract of the Bishop's register says that she died Aug. 6, 1878, but her death is listed on the 1880 Federal Mortality Schedules as occurring in August 1879.

1880 Mortality Schedules
Surname: Mary E. Wynn
Year: 1880
County:Yalobusha CO.
State:MS
Age:24
Gender:F (Female)
Month of Death: Aug
State of Birth: MS
ID#:198_382028
Occupation:NONE LISTED
Cause of Death:SCROFULA



The Wynn plantation was sold to William B. Winter about 1856. Mary Wynn was visiting at the R.B. Winter home (her own childhood home) in 1878 when she took sick with scrofula and died there. She was probably good friends with his daughters.
The "William B. Winter plantation" was a separate tract from the large plantation of his father, William Hooe Brown Winter Jr.(1817-1897), established in the 1840s.

William H. Winter Jr.'s mother Catherine (Kitty) Storke Washington Winter was the daughter of Henry Augustine Washington, second cousin of George Washington and Lewis Willis, the grandfather of Dr. William Taliaferro Willis and John Whitaker Willis of Grenada County. So William H. Brown Jr. was a 4th cousin of John Whitaker Willis who had a son and daughter married first cousins of Mary Williams Wynn.
William Brown Winter was also bondsman for Mary Williams Wynn's first cousin G.W. Mayhew Jr. when he married Mary E. Kendrick in 1866.
William Brown Winter was the father of William Aylmer Winter, state legislator and father of Mississippi Governor William Winter.

William Brown Winter married Amelia Fisher, daughter of Hon. Ephraim S. Fisher and Martha Townes; granddaughter of Armistead Terrell Townes and a connection of Fannie E. Leigh Wynn.

Mary Wynn's sister-in-law Fannie E. Leigh was the daughter of Fanny Eppes Lane and 1st Armistead Claiborne Leigh (her mother married 2nd Charles Gaines Armistead).



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