Mary Polly (Hicks) Stovall (1751 - 1845)

Born 20 Nov 1751 in Hanover County, Colony of Virginia

Wife of Josiah Stovall Sr. — married 1768 in Granville, Province of North Carolina

Descendants

Died 12 Dec 1845 at age 94 in Hinds County, Mississippi, USA

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Biography

Mary "Polly" HICKS Find A Grave: Memorial #16268115^[1]

Birth: 20 November 1751 in Hanover County, Virginia.

Death: 12 December 1845 in Sp Ridge Community, Hinds County, Mississippi.

Wife of Josiah Stovall, married around 1768.^[2]

MARY "POLLY" HICKS STOVALL CAME TO Marion County, Mississippi AS A WIDOW. BETWEEN 1812 AND 1815. AS SEVERAL OF HER CHILDREN DIED IN Mississippi., SHE PROBABLY MOVED WITH ONE OR MORE OF THEM. SALLY STOVALL HOLMES AND HER HUSBAND, EKISHA HOLMES, WENT TO Mississippi. FROM Georgia IN 1817. DAUGHTERS POLLY AND ANNE, AND SON, GILBERT, ALL DIED IN Hinds County, Mississippi. SHE LIVED TO BE 94 YEARS OLD.Mary Hicks came as a widow to Wilkes County, Mississippi in abt 1812. After Josiah Stovall's death, she gathered her personal belongings, her younger children and the orphaned children of here daughter Luch and the slaves and moved to Marion County, Mississippi (the region known as the "Lower Pearl". The removal of the slaves from Georgia to Mississippi Territory was the cause of litigation between some of her older children, who had remained in Georgia, and her for many years.

About 1815 Mary Polly Stovall once more moved her family, this time to Hinds County, Mississippi, whe she build a 19 room house near present Terry, Mississippi. The size of the house was such that it was nicknamed "The Hotel".^[3][4]

Burial

• 1845 Stovall Cemetery, Gyram, Hinds County, Mississippi

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Sources

1. ↑ http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/stovall/320/
2. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 24 Nov 2018), "Record of Josiah Stovall", Ancestor # A110795.
3. ↑ Scarborough, Misr. Jewel Davis. "Southern Kith and Kin", 4 Vols., Vol. 4 and "Family Potpourri", privately printed, Abilene, Texas 1958 Pg 286-327, 343, 254, 258-282.
4. ↑ World Family Tree Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0473Date of Import: 22 Jul, 1998 Copyright © 2010 John David Anderson, Jr.
5. ↑ Stovall3.FTW Broderbund WFT Vol. 5, Ed. 1, Tree #0473, Date of Import: 22 Jul, 1998

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Acknowledgments

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