Leodicea (Mangum) Sykes (aft. 1783 - aft. 1848)

Born after 1783 in Isle of Wight, Surry, Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Elias Gwaltney — married 1805 in Virginia, USA

Wife of Joshua Sykes — married 1830 in Smith, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died after 1848 at about age 65 in Smith, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Leodicea "Dicey" Mangum was born in 1783, in Isle of Wight, Virginia, United States, her father, Richard Mangum, was 32 and her mother, Mourning, was 21. She married Elias Gwaltney in 1805, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She died in 1847, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 64.

Sources

• Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Record for Leodicy Mangum

http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=14330708&pid=199245271.

• "Arkansas, Sebastian County Births and Deaths, 1877-1963," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZHY-FHQ: 3 November 2021), Dicey Mangum in entry for Laura Jane Gray, 18 Apr 1890; citing P7, Fort Smith Public Library, Fort Smith; FHL microfilm 1,034,198.

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Acknowledgments

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