Note: Grave Unmarked
Democrat Star - Dec 6, 1878
....Died at Scranton, Miss....Nov 28, 1878 at the residence of Mr. C.H. Alley, SABRA ISABELLA BILBO, aged 21 years, 7 months and 9 days. Sabra Isabella Bilbo was born in Jackson County, Miss., April 19, 1857 and died Nov. 28, 1878, therefore was 21 years, 7 months and 9 days old.
She went to ARKANSAS when a small child, with her father and after his death, Mr. C.H. Alley sent for her, together with her twin sister and brothers, and brought her to his home and raised her as one of his children, she was greatly beloved by the family in which she was reared and by a host of friends and relatives, for her many noble virtues and amiable disposition, her death is mourned by all who knew her. She was a member of the Baptist Church of Scranton, was a consistent christian, and died in the faith of a believer in Jesus....
Submitted by Linda Ellis
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Sabra's twin sister, Mary Marcella died about a month earlier on October 9, 1878.
In the 1860 Jackson Co MS census, twins Mary Marcella Bilbo & Sabra Isabella Bilbo, were living with their grandmother Elizabeth Carter Wilson in Americus.
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....After the 1860 census a wagon train of some 40 families left for the foothills west of Pine Bluff, Ark....those included recently widowed Joseph Bilbo and children, George Hess, Seaborn Hearn and Florida Bilbo. Some remained in Arkansas and some returned.....
[last paragraph is from the Jackson County History book page 411 F600 by Roscoe Courtney & Thelma C McIlwain]
Obit in photo sec. Ref:
Chronicle-Star of Pascagoula, Miss.
Fri. Nov. 29, 1878 p. 4
Democrat Star - Dec 6, 1878
....Died at Scranton, Miss....Nov 28, 1878 at the residence of Mr. C.H. Alley, SABRA ISABELLA BILBO, aged 21 years, 7 months and 9 days. Sabra Isabella Bilbo was born in Jackson County, Miss., April 19, 1857 and died Nov. 28, 1878, therefore was 21 years, 7 months and 9 days old.
She went to ARKANSAS when a small child, with her father and after his death, Mr. C.H. Alley sent for her, together with her twin sister and brothers, and brought her to his home and raised her as one of his children, she was greatly beloved by the family in which she was reared and by a host of friends and relatives, for her many noble virtues and amiable disposition, her death is mourned by all who knew her. She was a member of the Baptist Church of Scranton, was a consistent christian, and died in the faith of a believer in Jesus....
Submitted by Linda Ellis
~~~~
Sabra's twin sister, Mary Marcella died about a month earlier on October 9, 1878.
In the 1860 Jackson Co MS census, twins Mary Marcella Bilbo & Sabra Isabella Bilbo, were living with their grandmother Elizabeth Carter Wilson in Americus.
~~~~
....After the 1860 census a wagon train of some 40 families left for the foothills west of Pine Bluff, Ark....those included recently widowed Joseph Bilbo and children, George Hess, Seaborn Hearn and Florida Bilbo. Some remained in Arkansas and some returned.....
[last paragraph is from the Jackson County History book page 411 F600 by Roscoe Courtney & Thelma C McIlwain]
Obit in photo sec. Ref:
Chronicle-Star of Pascagoula, Miss.
Fri. Nov. 29, 1878 p. 4
Note: Grave Unmarked
Democrat Star - Dec 6, 1878
....Died at Scranton, Miss....Nov 28, 1878 at the residence of Mr. C.H. Alley, SABRA ISABELLA BILBO, aged 21 years, 7 months and 9 days. Sabra Isabella Bilbo was born in Jackson County, Miss., April 19, 1857 and died Nov. 28, 1878, therefore was 21 years, 7 months and 9 days old.
She went to ARKANSAS when a small child, with her father and after his death, Mr. C.H. Alley sent for her, together with her twin sister and brothers, and brought her to his home and raised her as one of his children, she was greatly beloved by the family in which she was reared and by a host of friends and relatives, for her many noble virtues and amiable disposition, her death is mourned by all who knew her. She was a member of the Baptist Church of Scranton, was a consistent christian, and died in the faith of a believer in Jesus....
Submitted by Linda Ellis
~~~~
Sabra's twin sister, Mary Marcella died about a month earlier on October 9, 1878.
In the 1860 Jackson Co MS census, twins Mary Marcella Bilbo & Sabra Isabella Bilbo, were living with their grandmother Elizabeth Carter Wilson in Americus.
~~~~
....After the 1860 census a wagon train of some 40 families left for the foothills west of Pine Bluff, Ark....those included recently widowed Joseph Bilbo and children, George Hess, Seaborn Hearn and Florida Bilbo. Some remained in Arkansas and some returned.....
[last paragraph is from the Jackson County History book page 411 F600 by Roscoe Courtney & Thelma C McIlwain]
Obit in photo sec. Ref:
Chronicle-Star of Pascagoula, Miss.
Fri. Nov. 29, 1878 p. 4
Democrat Star - Dec 6, 1878
....Died at Scranton, Miss....Nov 28, 1878 at the residence of Mr. C.H. Alley, SABRA ISABELLA BILBO, aged 21 years, 7 months and 9 days. Sabra Isabella Bilbo was born in Jackson County, Miss., April 19, 1857 and died Nov. 28, 1878, therefore was 21 years, 7 months and 9 days old.
She went to ARKANSAS when a small child, with her father and after his death, Mr. C.H. Alley sent for her, together with her twin sister and brothers, and brought her to his home and raised her as one of his children, she was greatly beloved by the family in which she was reared and by a host of friends and relatives, for her many noble virtues and amiable disposition, her death is mourned by all who knew her. She was a member of the Baptist Church of Scranton, was a consistent christian, and died in the faith of a believer in Jesus....
Submitted by Linda Ellis
~~~~
Sabra's twin sister, Mary Marcella died about a month earlier on October 9, 1878.
In the 1860 Jackson Co MS census, twins Mary Marcella Bilbo & Sabra Isabella Bilbo, were living with their grandmother Elizabeth Carter Wilson in Americus.
~~~~
....After the 1860 census a wagon train of some 40 families left for the foothills west of Pine Bluff, Ark....those included recently widowed Joseph Bilbo and children, George Hess, Seaborn Hearn and Florida Bilbo. Some remained in Arkansas and some returned.....
[last paragraph is from the Jackson County History book page 411 F600 by Roscoe Courtney & Thelma C McIlwain]
Obit in photo sec. Ref:
Chronicle-Star of Pascagoula, Miss.
Fri. Nov. 29, 1878 p. 4
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