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Mary <I>O'Neal</I> Gainer

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Mary O'Neal Gainer

Birth
Washington County, Florida, USA
Death
16 Mar 1878 (aged 43–44)
Washington County, Florida, USA
Burial
Washington County, Florida, USA Add to Map
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Was supposedly 1/32nd Cherokee Indian and the Gainer family was humiliated at a Gainer marrying anyone with indian blood.

In an incursion from St. Andrews Bay up through Econfina in July 1864 during the Civil War, Yankee soldiers burned their house near Orange Hill. Mary and a nanny tied a few clothes in a diaper and hid them in a tree. The house and all their belongings burned, except the things hidden in the tree.

Mary died in childbith when Joe was born. Aunt Mary (Betsy) Gainer Pierson, one of Flavious' sisters, took Minerva and Baby Joe to live with her at Orange Hill.
Was supposedly 1/32nd Cherokee Indian and the Gainer family was humiliated at a Gainer marrying anyone with indian blood.

In an incursion from St. Andrews Bay up through Econfina in July 1864 during the Civil War, Yankee soldiers burned their house near Orange Hill. Mary and a nanny tied a few clothes in a diaper and hid them in a tree. The house and all their belongings burned, except the things hidden in the tree.

Mary died in childbith when Joe was born. Aunt Mary (Betsy) Gainer Pierson, one of Flavious' sisters, took Minerva and Baby Joe to live with her at Orange Hill.

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