Frances Virginia (Dixon) Aldridge (abt. 1842 - bef. 1875)

Born about 1842 in Mississippi

Ancestors

Wife of Alfred Downs Aldridge — married 1 Nov 1860 in Hinds Co., Mississippi

Descendants

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Biography

Frances Dixon was born around 1840 (the census taken in December 1850 shows her as 9 years old). Fannie married A.D. Aldridge in Hinds County on November 1, 1860. They had four children, the last born November 27, 1869. A.D. remarried November 1875, so Fannie died sometime between November 1869 and 1875.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ update: sometime after July 25, 1870, when she was recorded as A.D.'s wife by the census

• Liz Shifflett, family knowledge and various documentation.
• 1850 Census for Hinds County, Mississippi, enumerated December 5 & 6, 1850.
• 1870 Census for Washington County (Post Office: Greenville), Mississippi, enumerated July 25, 1870.
  • "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MFS1-NBN : 12 April 2016), Fanny Aldridge in household of Alfred Aldridge, Mississippi, United States; citing p. 195, family 1693, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,251.
• Hinds County, Mississippi, marriage records: "Dixon, Fannie V. - Aldridge, A. D. - 01 Nov 1860"
• The Aldridge Family: England to America, by Robert Newton Aldridge Jr., an appendix to Alldredge-Aldridge-Bracen-Nesmith Families, by Memory Aldridge Lester. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1957 (privately printed).

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