Mary Ann BOATNER

1819 -

• Name	Mary Ann BOATNER
  Birth	02 Jun 1819	Newberry County, South Carolina
  Gender	Female
  Person ID	I312254848228	All Our Relations

  
  

  Father	John Westley BOATNER,   b. 1793, Newberry, North Cacolina d. 1864, Cornersville, Union County Mississippi (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Rachel EGNER,   b. 1789, Newberry, North Cacolina
  Marriage	22 Dec 1816
  Family ID	F2129	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elijah MC CAULEY,   b. 1823, Franklin County, Mississippi d. 1898, Conway Co. Arkansas (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	26 Dec 1844	Union County, Mississippi
  Children	1. Rachel E. MC CAULEY,   b. 1847   2. George H. MC CAULEY,   b. 1850   3. James Jefferson MC CAULEY,   b. Oct 1854   4. Nancy MC CAULEY,   b. 1856   5. Mary Lucille MC CAULEY,   b. 03 Sep 1859
  Family ID	F4839	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  On the first day after Christmas, 1844, a double wedding ceremony was held at the recently founded Amaziah church uniting two of the daughters of John and Rachel Boatner with two McCauley cousins from the Bethlehem community in Marshall Co. Elijah McCauley was the one who stood with Mary Boatner. He was born in 1823 in Franklin Co Miss., orphaned as a youth when paraents John and Mary McCauley, NC natives, died, and had then joined his uncle Samuel McCauley in Marshall Co. John Boatner eventually gave his son-in-law 200 acres to farm and live on immediately north of his own home. Elijah McCauley served 2 1/2 years as a corporal with the 7th Miss. Cav. til the regiment was surrenderd near Mobile in May 18??. Descendents recall that he and his wife raised their children according to the most rigid fundamentalist principles. In 1874, at 51, he finally "went public" with his reverence, being then ordained a Methodist minister. Early in 1880 they were induced by their son to give up their beloved but unrewarding land and join him in Ft Smith, Arkansas. From then until 1895 they assisted him with his grocery and orchardist pursuit there, then moved with him and their surviving daughter to a small acreage and grocery at Morrilton, Arkansas. Elijah McCauley died there on his 54th wedding anniversary and Mary Ann was buried beside him in Elmwood Cemetery, Morrilton, in 1903" per the family group sheet sent by Leigh Dillard They had three babies that died young.