Mary Scott McBride-Garner

She was the daughter of Henry Burl Youngblood and Alice "Alsey" Ray and was probably born in Butler County, Alabama in 1825 or 1826.

She married William Clendenan McBride on Dec. 9, 1846 in Hinds County, Mississippi. By 1850, she and her husband and their first two children were living in Jackson Parish, Louisiana. They later moved to Bienville Parish by 1860. She had five children with William between 1847 and 1859. They were Anna Elizabeth, John W., William Henry, Sarah Frances and Walter Asbury.

After her husband was killed in the Civil War in 1864, she remarried Ebenezer H. Garner in Bienville Parish on May 1, 1869. She and Ebenezer moved to Natchitoches Parish sometime before 1880. On the 1880 census they were living in Ward 6 in Natchitoches Parish. Ebenezer Garner remarried on Dec. 16, 1894, so she most likely died before that date.

The researchers for the Duckworth family (the family of Ebenezer's second wife) believe he was buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery just west of the city of Natchitoches. This is reasonable since Ebenezer and his second wife were living in that area in 1900. Mary was almost certainly buried there also, since she was living in the area and several of her McBride descendants and her daughter-in-law are buried there. Her son William is said to be buried nearby this cemetery, possibly an older area of this cemetery.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: May 14 2022, 9:26:04 UTC