This Week On My Family History Calendar

Sept. 6-Sept. 12

Sept. 9 ~

      Thomas J. McRady (1821-1896), my maternal 3rd Great Grandfather was born 194 years ago in South Carolina. He lived most of his life in the Sumter County area and may have been born there. 

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July 26-August 1

 July 29~
   Thomas McCrady (1821-1896), my paternal 3rd Great Grandfather, died 119 years ago at the age of 74 in the Pisgah Community of Sumter County, South Carolina. Thomas' obituary calls him an "old and highly esteemed citizen". Burial was in the Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery.

Aug. 1~
  My maternal Great Great Grandmother, Bessie Mae (Eargle) Price (1878-1943), died 72 years ago in Columbia, Richland, South Carolina. Bessie was 65 when she died as a result of heart disease. She was buried in Graniteville Cemetery, Graniteville, Aiken, South Carolina.

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52 Ancestors:Week 12~A Mother's Heart

   While doing some research and thinking about the Week 12 Topic "Same" for 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks 2105 Edition I came across the obituary for my maternal Great Great Grandmother, Frances Virginia (McRady) McManus (1856-1903).

Obituary of Frances Virginia (McRady) McManus

  Why did this obituary lead me to use Fannie as my Week 12 Ancestor? The description of her children. The blending of biological and adopted children. Like my great great Grandmother, my family is made up of biological and adopted children.
 She and I are the same.
   I wonder how Fannie would feel about this distinction between her children. If we are truly the same, she would let people know that she wouldn't place her children into biological and adopted categories. Wanting people to know that your children are forever in your heart no matter how or why they come to you.
   Fannie was born in Sumter County, South Carolina on 2 October 1856 to Thomas McCrady (1821-1896) and Mary Jane (Brown) McCrady (1821-1894). She was the third of five daughters.
  Francis Virginia McCrady married William A. McManus on 11 December 1872 in Sumter County. It was a double wedding as her sister Rosalie A. McCrady (1853-1899) married Robert J. Watson (1850-1924) on the same day.
   The first record of children comes with twins Lula McManus and Hattie Palmer McManus being born on 11 Oct. 1876. Hattie died just a little over two months later on the day after Christmas, 26 December 1876 followed two weeks later by sister Lula on 10 January 1877. William and Fannie buried their daughters in St. John's Methodist Cemetery in Spring Hill, Sumter, South Carolina.
  Son George Washington McManus (1878-1940) was born a year and a half after the death of his twin sisters and then another daughter Effie Vida (McManus) Burkett (1882-1896), joined the family. Tragedy struck the family again with Effie's death in 1896. Her story can be found here.
  My great-grandmother, Loretta (McManus) Daughrity (1894-1936) is said to be an adopted daughter of the McManus family. Still alive at the time of her mother's death, she would have been one of the "several adoptive" children mentioned in Fannie's obituary.
 Children Lula, Hattie, George, and Loretta are recorded in the Family Bible. They were the only children known at the time of a visit to Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery where William, Fannie, Effie, George and other family members are buried. A surprise came when the headstone of another child was found. Buried not far from the parents who were raising her was the grave of Bessie McManus (1887-1892). Carved on the headstone are these words: "Adopted Daughter of W.A. and Fannie McManus".
 Were there more children taken in and raised by this family as the obituary indicates? Besides leaving George and Loretta behind, who were the others indicated as "several adopted children"? No records have been found to answer this question.
   In whatever way Fannie became a mother to each of her children, one thing remains the same throughout time.
 A mother's heart knows no difference.




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This Week On My Family History Calendar

Sept.7-Sept. 13

Sept. 9~
   Thomas McRady (1821-1896), my maternal 3rd Great Grandfather, would have been 193 years old.  Tom lived in the Springhill area of Sumter County, South Carolina. 

Sept. 13~
   My  maternal Great Great Grandfather, William Amos McManus (1854-1914), died 100 years ago. He is buried in the Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery, Pisgah Crossroads, Sumter, SC. 

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July 27-Aug. 2

July 27~
 Bertrand Campbell Price (1876-after 1922), my maternal Great Great Grandfather, would be 138 on this day. Cam was born in Aiken County, SC. 

July 29~ 
The 118th anniversary of the death of my maternal 3rd Great Grandfather, Thomas Mcrady (1821-1896). Thomas died in Sumter County, SC and is buried in Pisgah Cemetery, Pisgah Crossroads, Sumter, SC.

Aug. 1~
  My maternal Great Great Grandmother, Bessie Mae Eargle Price (1884-1943), died in Columbia, Richland, SC.  She is buried in the Graniteville Cemetery, Graniteville, Aiken, SC.

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This Week On My Family History Calendar

Sept 8-Sept. 14

• Sept. 9

 Thomas Mcrady, my 3rd Great Grandfather, would be celebrating his 192nd birthday. He was born in 1821 possibly in Sumter District, S.C.

• Sept. 13

The Death Anniversary of my 2nd Great Grandfather William A. McManus.  He died in 1914 in Sumter County, S.C. at the age of 60.

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This Week On My Family History Calendar:

July 28-Aug.3

• July 29

The 117th anniversary of the death of my 3rd Great Grandfather Thomas McRady. He died at the age of 74 in 1896 and was from Sumter County, SC.

• August 1

My 2nd Great Grandmother Bessie Mae Eargle Price died 70 years ago in Columbia, Richland, SC. She was 59 years old.


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