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Elizabeth “Betsy” <I>Langley</I> Graham Willett

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Elizabeth “Betsy” Langley Graham Willett

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Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
18 Oct 1890 (aged 67)
Friendship, Bienville Parish, Louisiana, USA
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Elizabeth "Betsy" Langley Graham Willett was my great-great-grandmother. She was the oldest child of James W. Langley and Judith Mattox. She married 1. John Graham on Nov. 12, 1840 in Union Co., AR. Children: William, Bolen, Lucinda, Jasper Newton and *John Wesley Graham (md Martha Theresa Jane Lewter). John died in 1850; Elizabeth married 2. Robinson Malcolm Willett on March 12, 1852 in Union Co., AR. Children: Samantha Rebecca, Wm. Henry, Benjamin, James Robt., Jesse, Elbert Anders and Leon Willett.

Elizabeth spent a few days with her son John Wesley and family in the Danville/Bienville area while her husband was on the grand jury in Arcadia, LA. She decided to go home one morning so her dtr-in-law & granddaughters walked with her as far as Mrs. Smelley's house. It started raining and they walked back home. Mrs. Smelley begged Elizabeth to spend the night with her but she told her she needed to go on home. She took the short cut thru the woods...and got sick. She hung her white apron on a tree limb so someone would see her as they passed thru, hung the big ham on a limb her family had given her, and tucked her purse in her bussom. She layed down on her side on a knoll under a big tree - and that is where she met her Maker! It rained and stormed all night long. Next morning John Wesley came upon the apron and ham and his mother! They thought she was at home and her husband thought she was with them. J. W. rode his horse to Arcadia and told her husband what had happened. He had to hold him back for he wanted to ride the horse too fast and it would have killed it. She was layed to rest in Friendship Cemetery. Every year the dogwood blooms are in memory of the pioneer woman whose white apron hung on the branch of one of them.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Langley Graham Willett was my great-great-grandmother. She was the oldest child of James W. Langley and Judith Mattox. She married 1. John Graham on Nov. 12, 1840 in Union Co., AR. Children: William, Bolen, Lucinda, Jasper Newton and *John Wesley Graham (md Martha Theresa Jane Lewter). John died in 1850; Elizabeth married 2. Robinson Malcolm Willett on March 12, 1852 in Union Co., AR. Children: Samantha Rebecca, Wm. Henry, Benjamin, James Robt., Jesse, Elbert Anders and Leon Willett.

Elizabeth spent a few days with her son John Wesley and family in the Danville/Bienville area while her husband was on the grand jury in Arcadia, LA. She decided to go home one morning so her dtr-in-law & granddaughters walked with her as far as Mrs. Smelley's house. It started raining and they walked back home. Mrs. Smelley begged Elizabeth to spend the night with her but she told her she needed to go on home. She took the short cut thru the woods...and got sick. She hung her white apron on a tree limb so someone would see her as they passed thru, hung the big ham on a limb her family had given her, and tucked her purse in her bussom. She layed down on her side on a knoll under a big tree - and that is where she met her Maker! It rained and stormed all night long. Next morning John Wesley came upon the apron and ham and his mother! They thought she was at home and her husband thought she was with them. J. W. rode his horse to Arcadia and told her husband what had happened. He had to hold him back for he wanted to ride the horse too fast and it would have killed it. She was layed to rest in Friendship Cemetery. Every year the dogwood blooms are in memory of the pioneer woman whose white apron hung on the branch of one of them.

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