Her first census listing was when she was 4 months old, and the penmanship is so illegible the transcriber calls her Thomas, though a female child. At least by 1860, when her family had moved to Texas, she was listed as Fanny.
She married at 17, to Richard A. Gee who had been born in 1833 in Tennessee (17 years older than she was). Some of his records say he was born in Virginia, where his parents were born. They raised 7 children, who all lived to be adults, and had 19 grandchildren. Some of her children and grandchidlren lived into their 90s, and one, Ethel M. Stingily, lived to 100, dying in 2013.
Many of the death certificates in the early 1900s show how hypertension was a killer in my family. I've seen this on many Booth records. I'm so glad there is medication now (which I can take.)
Fanny herself was 73 when she died in 1923.
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| One of these men is Richard Albert Gee...I don't know the other, nor which one he is. |
Her husband, Richard Albert Gee (Rag, which are his initials) was a Sargent in the Confederacy, and thus received a veterans grave marker when he died in 1930 at age 96.
Next I'll look at some of Eugenia Witty's younger siblings! Oh yes, it was a big family!
I remember my wife had an Aunt Fanny. It is an interesting read of this part of the family tree.
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