Mary Louisa (Rogers) Thigpen (1905 - 1998)

Born 1 Nov 1905 in St. Francois, Missouri, United States

Wife of Wheadon B. Harris — married about 1923 (to about 1935) in Georgia, United States

Wife of Benjamin Lovick China — married after 1937 in Georgia, United States

Died 3 Jun 1998 at age 92 in Macon, Bibb, Georgia, United States

Biography

Mary Louisa Rogers was born in 1905 in Saint Francois County, Missouri to Lonzo Ruffin Rogers and Mary Phalina Kane.^[1][2] She married Wheadon B. Harris about 1923 in Georgia and they divorced about 1935.^[3] Mary Louisa married Benjamin Lovick China after 1937.^[4][5] After the death of Benjamin, she married Louis R. Thigpen. Mary Louisa passed away in 1998 in Macon, Georgia and is buried in the Greenlawn Cemetery in Jacksonville, Florida.^[6][7]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2BB-PJC : accessed 9 December 2019), Mary L Rogers in household of Lonzo R Rogers, St Francois, St Francois, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 92, sheet 29A, family 561, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 808; FHL microfilm 1,374,821.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJX5-PJ8 : accessed 9 December 2019), Mary L Rogers in household of L R Rogers, Jesup, Wayne, Georgia, United States; citing ED 173, sheet 4A, line 49, family 79, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 284; FHL microfilm 1,820,284.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:387C-R2M : accessed 7 December 2019), Mary L Harris in household of Wheadon D Harris, Jesup, Wayne, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 7, sheet 4A, line 8, family 75, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 392; FHL microfilm 2,340,127.
4. ↑ "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7LH-14L : 28 July 2019), Mary R China in household of B Lovick China, Ward 1, Douglas, Militia District 748, Coffee, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 34-2, sheet 8A, line 8, family 124, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 659.
5. ↑ United States Census, 1950. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F79-WXHY.
6. ↑ "Georgia Death Index, 1933-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V4SB-HZQ : 24 December 2014), Mary R Thigpen, 03 Jun 1998; from "Georgia Deaths, 1919-98," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2001); citing Bibb, Georgia, certificate number 025723, Georgia Health Department, Office of Vital Records, Atlanta.
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #140482120 Mary Louisa Rogers Harris China Thigpen.