1825 - 1907 (81 years)
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Name |
Mary Ann Litzy |
Birth |
13 Dec 1825 |
Limestone Co., AL |
Gender |
Female |
_UID |
D93C1CB4816DEE4EB9122C2A8AE7A978C24C |
Death |
5 Dec 1907 |
Limestone Co., AL |
Person ID |
I73316 |
sorrells |
Last Modified |
1 Jan 2022 |
Family |
James Calvin Stewart, b. 29 Jan 1820, Limestone Co., AL d. 8 Nov 1891, Limestone Co., AL (Age 71 years) |
Marriage |
13 Nov 1841 |
Limestone Co., AL |
Children |
| 1. Margaret Alice Stewart, b. 7 Apr 1862, Tanner, Limestone Co., AL d. 17 Feb 1901, Limestone Co., AL (Age 38 years) |
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Family ID |
F28739 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
1 Oct 2024 |
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Notes |
- Mary Ann Litzy Stewart
Birth 13 Dec 1825
Limestone County, Alabama, USA
Death 5 Dec 1907 (aged 81)
Limestone County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Davis Temple Cemetery
Tanner, Limestone County, Alabama, USA
Memorial ID 181950968
Mary Ann was the daughter of Jacob Adam Litzy and Margaret Malone and the sister to Sarah Elis Litzy. Mary Ann was the wife of Calvin Stewart who was the brother of Thomas Stewart, husband of Mary's sister, Sarah Elis Litzy.
My great great grandparents, Mary Litzy Stewart and her husband Calvin are the only white people buried in the Davis Temple Cemetery. The story told to me by my mom was that Davis Temple use to be both a white and black cemetery with the sections separated by a small path. There was to be a new highway, actually there was already a two lane highway there but there was going to be another two lanes added to change it to a 4 lane highway divided by a grass median, and the new part of the highway would go directly over the white section. Mary and Calvin Stewart's stone were the first white graves closest to the black section and were mistakenly taken for black and left when the white section was bulldozed over and the stones pushed into a hole! Some years later a descendent of Calvin and Mary Ann Litzy Stewart had a double stone erected somewhere in the Davis Temple Cemetery to honor them. At the time of the building of the new highway Davis Temple was both a white/black church, later some of the members moved to a new church location and called it Hebron, later changing the name to Tanner Methodist Church located in Tanner, Limestone County, Alabama. The Tanner Methodist Church has a very large cemetery there and both church and cemetery are very active today (2019)
Contributor: Diana Brooks McBay
Inscription
Wife Mary L 1825-1907
Gravesite Details
this is only a fieldstone
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