Mary Ann Storey Lavender

The Storey family is thoroughly documented in The Family Storey, available online at https://sites.google.com/site/thefamilystorey/home/henry (the section on Henry Storey, 3rd son of patriarch George Storey).

The Henry McCrary Storey group, including Mary Ann Storey & William Lavender, is at https://sites.google.com/site/thefamilystorey/home/henry#HENRYMcCRA...

"I knew about Mary Ann going to the battlefield and getting William but Daddy {Samuel Preston Johnson, Mary Ann's sister's descendant} hasn't mentioned hearing her tell about it." -- Natalie Johnson Sandlin, letter to DLZ of 6/19/2001

"Mary Ann Storey and William Lavender I am fairly sure had only a common education as at the time they were young few had any more than that. Colleges were few and transportation was quite a problem. Mary Ann did a little sewing by hand and darning after I knew her. I don't know what she did before. Mother was always kind to her and looked after her. Mary Ann sometimes offered short criticisms but Mother paid no attention to her just credited it to her old age." -- Lucille Sibley Lavender, Mary Ann's daughter in law, letter of 11-10-1973 to Debra Lavender

"Mary did not live with Virginia and John for 18 years. She divided her time with a daughter Madelphia Pridmore but she lived with each for a period of 8 or 10 years at a time." -- Lucille Sibley Lavender letter of 11-10-1973 to Debra Lavender

"My grandma Lavender lived with us when I was a child. She was one of those grandmas that children did not like. I can still hear her fussing, especially about how her son married a town girl that did nothing like she wanted done. I can't remember anything about my mother or Dad's young life." --Gesna Lavender Goree, letter of 12/14/1973 to Debra Lavender

• Lived 1850: Mantua area, Pickens Co. w/ parents and siblings [1850 Pickens Co., AL census]
• Marriage: William Lavender married Mary Ann Storey on January 25, 1851 or 1853 {illegible}, presumably in Mantua, Pickens Co. [to become Greene Co.]. Alabama Department of Archives and History; Montgomery, Alabama, Confederate Pension Applications, 1880-1940.
• Lived 1860: Mantua area, Pickens Co., AL w/ husband William, parents having moved north to Yorkville area 1860 US census for Pickens Co., Ala. Living with Mary Ann and William were daughter Mary Jane (Madelphia), age 5, son John Wilson, age 2, and son Theophilus, age 3 months.
• Lived 1866: not known; does not appear with husband and family in 1866 Alabama census for Mantua though husband, mother-in-law and her three children do
• Lived 1870: Mantua area, Greene Co., AL [1870 Greene Co., AL census]
• Lived April 1874: Henry's Beat, Ethelsville area, Pickens Co., AL [per husband's signed letter, Pickens County Herald & West Alabamian, April 22, 1874, p. 2]
• Lived 1875: Yorkville area, Pickens Co., AL [received into Tabernacle Methodist Church, Yorkville Circuit, one year after her husband William, and transferred to Union Chapel in 1883 [The Complete Church Register, Tabernacle Church, Yorkville Circuit, Southern Methodist Publishing House]
• Lived 1880: Yorkville area, Pickens Co. w/ William and near parents [1880 Pickens Co. AL census]
• Lived 1895: Ethelsville [formerly Yorkville], Pickens Co., AL [ancestry.com: Alabama Department of Archives and History; Montgomery, Alabama; Alabama Confederate Pensioner Records (Auditor Files), 1881-1943]
• Lived 1900: Henry's beat, Yorkville area, recently widowed, living with son Robert Henry [1900 Pickens Co., AL census]
• Lived 1910: Vernon Rd., Henry's beat, Yorkville area, with son John Wilson's family [1910 Pickens Co., AL census]
• Lived 1911, 1912, 1915, 1916: Pickens Co. [Alabama Department of Archives and History; Montgomery, Alabama; Confederate Pension Applications, 1880-1940]

Aged Lady Dies Near Ethelsville. News was received in Carrollton Wednesday afternoon of the death of Mrs. Mary Lavender, who died suddenly at her home near Ethelsville that day. She was the mother of Mr. R. H. Lavender of this city and is also survived by two other sons, Messrs. T. W. and J. W. Lavender and one daughter, Mrs. H. W. Pridmore. Mrs. Lavender was ninety years of age at the time of her death. Funeral services will be held today, Thursday, conducted by Rev. H. P. Waites, interment occurring in Forest cemetery near Ethelsville. --Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian, September 5, 1918. Original see in Pickens County Courthouse, Carrollton, Ala.