To Sally Eaton Daves and Morgan Jones but one child was born, and named Mary McKinlay Jones, on 8th of January 1802. Her mother dying when Mary was but six weeks old, she was adopted by her half great-uncle, EATON PUGH of Northampton Co., who gave her the additional name of Pugh.
She was named for her half-sister, Mary Davis McKinlay, who wed James McKinlay. (Bio:Mary Brocklebank)
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This Memphis Appeal Newspaper
Memphis, Tennessee
July 14, 1888
Mrs. Mary R. Govan
Jackson, Miss---July 13----Mrs. Mary R. Govan, mother of the Hon. George M. Govan, Secretary of State, died at her son's residence at McComb City, yesterday evening, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. She was born in Newburn, N. C., and was the widow of the late Hon. Andrew R. Govan, who represented the Orangeburg District, in South Carolina, in the United States Congress in 1826, being the colleague of John C. Calhoun and William C. Preston.
Soon after the expiration of his term in Congress he and his family moved to Tennessee; thence in 1836 to Mississippi settling in Marshall County where he died in 1841. Mrs. Govan was a lady of bright, intellectual and finished attainments, proverbial for gentleness of manner and disposition and exuberant hospitality, and was a true type of a southern lady. She has three sons living in Arkansas. Gen. D. C. Govan, who had a conspicuous command in the Confederate Army; Maj. William H. and John J. Govan. She was also the mother of Mrs. Maj. John M. Billups, of Columbus, Miss. Her remains were carried tonight to Holly Springs, her old home, for interment beside her husband's body.
She was named for her half-sister, Mary Davis McKinlay, who wed James McKinlay. (Bio:Mary Brocklebank)
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This Memphis Appeal Newspaper
Memphis, Tennessee
July 14, 1888
Mrs. Mary R. Govan
Jackson, Miss---July 13----Mrs. Mary R. Govan, mother of the Hon. George M. Govan, Secretary of State, died at her son's residence at McComb City, yesterday evening, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. She was born in Newburn, N. C., and was the widow of the late Hon. Andrew R. Govan, who represented the Orangeburg District, in South Carolina, in the United States Congress in 1826, being the colleague of John C. Calhoun and William C. Preston.
Soon after the expiration of his term in Congress he and his family moved to Tennessee; thence in 1836 to Mississippi settling in Marshall County where he died in 1841. Mrs. Govan was a lady of bright, intellectual and finished attainments, proverbial for gentleness of manner and disposition and exuberant hospitality, and was a true type of a southern lady. She has three sons living in Arkansas. Gen. D. C. Govan, who had a conspicuous command in the Confederate Army; Maj. William H. and John J. Govan. She was also the mother of Mrs. Maj. John M. Billups, of Columbus, Miss. Her remains were carried tonight to Holly Springs, her old home, for interment beside her husband's body.
To Sally Eaton Daves and Morgan Jones but one child was born, and named Mary McKinlay Jones, on 8th of January 1802. Her mother dying when Mary was but six weeks old, she was adopted by her half great-uncle, EATON PUGH of Northampton Co., who gave her the additional name of Pugh.
She was named for her half-sister, Mary Davis McKinlay, who wed James McKinlay. (Bio:Mary Brocklebank)
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This Memphis Appeal Newspaper
Memphis, Tennessee
July 14, 1888
Mrs. Mary R. Govan
Jackson, Miss---July 13----Mrs. Mary R. Govan, mother of the Hon. George M. Govan, Secretary of State, died at her son's residence at McComb City, yesterday evening, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. She was born in Newburn, N. C., and was the widow of the late Hon. Andrew R. Govan, who represented the Orangeburg District, in South Carolina, in the United States Congress in 1826, being the colleague of John C. Calhoun and William C. Preston.
Soon after the expiration of his term in Congress he and his family moved to Tennessee; thence in 1836 to Mississippi settling in Marshall County where he died in 1841. Mrs. Govan was a lady of bright, intellectual and finished attainments, proverbial for gentleness of manner and disposition and exuberant hospitality, and was a true type of a southern lady. She has three sons living in Arkansas. Gen. D. C. Govan, who had a conspicuous command in the Confederate Army; Maj. William H. and John J. Govan. She was also the mother of Mrs. Maj. John M. Billups, of Columbus, Miss. Her remains were carried tonight to Holly Springs, her old home, for interment beside her husband's body.
She was named for her half-sister, Mary Davis McKinlay, who wed James McKinlay. (Bio:Mary Brocklebank)
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This Memphis Appeal Newspaper
Memphis, Tennessee
July 14, 1888
Mrs. Mary R. Govan
Jackson, Miss---July 13----Mrs. Mary R. Govan, mother of the Hon. George M. Govan, Secretary of State, died at her son's residence at McComb City, yesterday evening, in the eighty-seventh year of her age. She was born in Newburn, N. C., and was the widow of the late Hon. Andrew R. Govan, who represented the Orangeburg District, in South Carolina, in the United States Congress in 1826, being the colleague of John C. Calhoun and William C. Preston.
Soon after the expiration of his term in Congress he and his family moved to Tennessee; thence in 1836 to Mississippi settling in Marshall County where he died in 1841. Mrs. Govan was a lady of bright, intellectual and finished attainments, proverbial for gentleness of manner and disposition and exuberant hospitality, and was a true type of a southern lady. She has three sons living in Arkansas. Gen. D. C. Govan, who had a conspicuous command in the Confederate Army; Maj. William H. and John J. Govan. She was also the mother of Mrs. Maj. John M. Billups, of Columbus, Miss. Her remains were carried tonight to Holly Springs, her old home, for interment beside her husband's body.
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