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About Mary Stovall
Daughter of William Hicks and Sarah Elizabeth Reeves, she married Josiah Stovall, with whom she had nineteen children. She came to Marion County, Mississippi, as a widow in about 1815 with some of her family. Later she settled in the Spring Ridge community, near Mississippi Springs, in Hinds County. She died at the home of her daughter Elizabeth Tatum near Jackson. [Biographical information provided by Christopher Beard.]
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Mary married Josiah Stovall circa 1798 in Virginia. According to a report by the late certified genealogist, William H. Dumont, F.N.G.S., C.G. in 1968, "There has been some confusion as to the names and number of children of Josiah and Mary Stovall. The following list has been prepared based on official court records. These records include the Will of Josiah Stovall and a deed from Lincoln County, Georgia, and several court records from Mississippi. These report 17 children.
That there were 17 children and not some other number is confirmed by the funeral eulogy by Rev. Lewis B. Holloway for Mrs. Mary Hicks Stovall in December 1845. He stated that she was the mother of 10 sons and 7 daughters. Of these 6 sons and 3 daughters died before their mother. From the records, it is known Drury, Josiah, William, John, Rebecca, Sarah, Elizabeth and Pricilla were alive in 1845, while David, Ralph, Gilbert, Charles, Lewis, Thomas, Mary, Anne and Lucy had died before that year." ~~~~~~~~ Eulogy by Rev. Lewis B. Holloway
"Died, at Mrs. Tatum's, her daughter, near Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, on Friday, December 12th, 1845, Mrs. Mary Hicks Stovall, widow of Josiah Stovall formerly of Georgia, in the ninety-sixth year of her age. Mrs. Stovall has been a member of the Baptist Church for about seventy-eight years, and a widow nearly fifty years.
She has raised seventeen children to have families--ten sons and seven daughters; the remainder of her children are still living. From the best calculation that has been made, there are nearly six hundred persons whose descent can be traced to Mrs. Stovall. She has often been heard to say that she has a good hope in the future destiny of all her children that have died; and that all that are living now are members, we believe, of the Baptist Church.
Mrs. Stovall was no ordinary Christian. When left a widow with a house full of children, and but scanty means of supporting them she learned to put her trust in God, and that trust was not a momentary or occasional trust. It was an abiding confidence in the superintending care and special favor of God to His children, that He would be indeed, a "husband to the widow and a father to the fatherless." She experienced, in an eminent degree, the blessed truth of that most gracious promise, she raised the children under God, a credit to themselves and a blessing to their mother.
It has not been an uncommon thing with her for years past, to commence praising God for his kindness to her, and continuing in that state, calling on her friends present to help her. The cause of God and the good of souls lay near her heart, and out of an abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, but in such a way as not to give offence. She would often send word to her near friends, whom she could not personally address, to prepare to meet her in heaven, as she knew her time in this world could not be much longer. When the time for her departure came, she expired almost without a struggle, and her soul now rests with her Redeemer.
"Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, Yea, saith the spirit, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them."
"'Tis finished, 'Tis done! the spirit is fled, Our sister is is gone, the Christian is dead; The Christian is living in Jesus' love, And gladly receiving a kingdom above."
[Eulogy taken from the book "Moving on : the Stovalls" by G. Spencer Beasley, pages 175-176.] Research by Gloria J. Tune, 5th g. granddaughter
Rest in peace our "Iron Lady"
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Mary Stovall's Timeline
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November 20, 1751
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Virginia
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1769
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Granville County, North Carolina
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1769
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Granville County, North Carolina, USA
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December 17, 1770
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Granville County, North Carolina, United States
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1771
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Granville County, North Carolina
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1772
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Granville County, North Carolina
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1772
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Granville County, North Carolina, United States
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1773
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Granville County, North Carolina, USA
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1773
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Granville, NC, United States
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