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a. Note:   N3222 Mary Peachy Gilmer
  Mary Peachy, the oldest (sic) daughter of Peachy R. Gilmer, was a round-faced, full-personed, black-eyed brunette. Her cheerfulness, and unaffected simplicity, kind manners, and affectionate temper, made her a universal favorite. Her want of guile was beyond the belief of the bad. She loved her father, mother, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, and cousins, so much that there was no spare place in her heart for suitors. She was more courted than any young lady of the country. Andrew Lewis loved her from her youth to his death. He lost an arm whilst he was an officer under General Wayne, in his campaigns against the western Indians, where he also confirmed his habit of drinking whiskey, which he had formed when young. He was intelligent, and would have been handsome but for his want of an arm. He had too much respect for Peachy Gilmer, when sober, to ask her to marry him. He never failed pressing her to do so if he saw her when drunk.
  Peachy Gilmer had neither the taste nor capacity for investigating sectarian controversies. She was by inheritance an Episcopalian. When she died, she left part of her estate to build a church in Mississippi, for the special use of the Episcopalians.


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