Mary Melissa (Alvis) Ferguson (1836 - 1934)

Born 16 Feb 1836 in Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 4 Nov 1934 at age 98 in Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, United States

Biography

Census records: 1850-1900 complete; her mother is with her in 1860; births of children give estimate of date. Correspondence with Dick Collings, a descendant now living in Rockville IN; printed copy of Ferguson descendants.

Death certificate; Nov 4 1934; Rockville IN. Rockville IN Republican; Nov 11 1934; obituary. Death certificate gives date and place of birth; parents listed as James Alvis and Leatha M. Pulliam.

1900 Parke Co IN, 64, MO MO TN, capitalist, mother of 10 children, 6 now living.

1850 Madison Co IL, 14 IL, with Josiah Randle and family. (Gedcoms at Ancestry.com do not indicate any of this family in locations likely to be related to Mary's family. KP)

1860 census, Twp. 7, Range 9, Miles Station P.O., Macoupin Co., ILL.

1880 census, Rockville, Parke Co., IND.

Marriage:

Husband: James Woodson Alvis

Wife: Leatha Luvina Merrick

Marriage:

Date: 17 FEB 1827

Place: Lawrence Co TN^[1]

Child: Jane E Alvis

Child: William Henry Harrison Alvis

Child: Mary Melissa Alvis

Child: Louisiana Lucy Annie

Child: Sarah Lavina Alvis

Death:

Date: 4 NOV 1934

Place: Rockville, Parke Co IN ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Lawrence Co TN Marriage Book, 1818-1854. I have Xerox copy of the original record. The index is in error as to Luvina's maiden name; someone has written Sullivan under the name Pulliam, and that is how the index reads the name.
2. ↑ Mary M. Ferguson, death certificate no. 35976 (1936), Indiana State Board of Health--Division of Vital Statistics. Her parents are given as James Alvis and Leatha M. Pulliam.

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MX46-WYN : 13 December 2017), Mary Ferguson in entry for Solon Ferguson, 1860, Township 7 Range 9, Macoupin, Illinois, United States.

• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFWS-7XG : accessed 6 March 2018), Mary Ferguson, Rockville, Parke, Indiana, United States; citing ED 50, sheet 16A, line 31, family 445, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 443; FHL microfilm 1,820,443.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62316816/mary-ferguson : accessed 23 June 2022), memorial page for Mary Alvis Ferguson (16 Feb 1836–4 Nov 1934), Find a Grave Memorial ID 62316816, citing Rockville Cemetery, Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, USA ; Maintained by Kathy Alvis Patterson (contributor 47061683) .

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Alvis families 9a.ged on 18 January 2011.
• This person was created through the import of Pioneer Stock.GED on 31 October 2010.