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Note: Chad McArthur Sinclair wrote: "My mother, Mary Elizabeth McKee(Bettie) was first married to Mr. Sanders who was killed just after the close of the Civil War. He was walking over the battle ground when a bomb exploded and killed him. A girl was born to the marriage, but she died in infancy. My mother was left a widow and my Father was left a widower about the same time.
"At that time Dr. J. L. Cooper; was president of Cooper Institute at Daleville, Miss. He and my father and also he and my mother were good friends. Dr. Cooper saw to it that these two got to know each other because he thought they were suited to become husband and wife. He must have been born a match-maker for his scheme worked. It was a happy marriage. My mother therefore became the Step-mother to Sallie and Buddy. No Step-mother could ever be more like a real mother than my mother was to those two. Sally was 9 years old. Buddy about 18 years old at the time of the marriage...
"My mother was left a widow for the second time. My father died in 1886. My mother had not only helped to raise my father's first two children, but they took into their home Lonnie Matthews and his sister Mollie Matthews.
"My mother was left with four children ages from 5 to 14 years old. Sallie was still with us. Eternity will only tell what my mother went thro' to feed and clothe, and educate her children.
"We were raised in a Christian home where God was reveered and where the preacher was always welcome and many times entertained.
"My father's last words to my mother were: "Do the best you can, and trust the results to God." This is what she did with wonderful results...
"I shall just close by saying that God has been good to us and that He has been "our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Psa. 46: 1
RELATIVES WITH UNKNOWN CONNECTION:
Finis Pugh SS#427-74-5189 b. 9/24/1885 d.1/1973, Neshoba County, MS.(SS Death Record)
O. D.(Dorris) McKee,(Wife: Ruth) McKee Foods Corp. founders (Little Debbie snack-cake brand), Collegedale, TN Son: Elworth(w: Sharon) McKee; Their daughter: Debbie
Angelene Watkins
Eunice Roberts Gabriel
Charles Roberts (Dixon,MS ?)[MCA2.FTW]
Chad McArthur Sinclair wrote: "My mother, Mary Elizabeth McKee(Bettie) was first married to Mr. Sanders who was killed just after the close of the Civil War. He was walking over the battle ground when a bomb exploded and killed him. A girl was born to the marriage, but she died in infancy. My mother was left a widow and my Father was left a widower about the same time.
"At that time Dr. J. L. Cooper; was president of Cooper Institute at Daleville, Miss. He and my father and also he and my mother were good friends. Dr. Cooper saw to it that these two got to know each other because he thought they were suited to become husband and wife. He must have been born a match-maker for his scheme worked. It was a happy marriage. My mother therefore became the Step-mother to Sallie and Buddy. No Step-mother could ever be more like a real mother than my mother was to those two. Sally was 9 years old. Buddy about 18 years old at the time of the marriage...
"My mother was left a widow for the second time. My father died in 1886. My mother had not only helped to raise my father's first two children, but they took into their home Lonnie Matthews and his sister Mollie Matthews.
"My mother was left with four children ages from 5 to 14 years old. Sallie was still with us. Eternity will only tell what my mother went thro' to feed and clothe, and educate her children.
"We were raised in a Christian home where God was reveered and where the preacher was always welcome and many times entertained.
"My father's last words to my mother were: "Do the best you can, and trust the results to God." This is what she did with wonderful results...
"I shall just close by saying that God has been good to us and that He has been "our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Psa. 46: 1
RELATIVES WITH UNKNOWN CONNECTION:
Finis Pugh SS#427-74-5189 b. 9/24/1885 d.1/1973, Neshoba County, MS.(SS Death Record)
O. D.(Dorris) McKee,(Wife: Ruth) McKee Foods Corp. founders (Little Debbie snack-cake brand), Collegedale, TN Son: Elworth(w: Sharon) McKee; Their daughter: Debbie
Angelene Watkins
Eunice Roberts Gabriel
Charles Roberts (Dixon,MS ?)
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