Mary Elizabeth Erwin

Birth: 8 APR 1848
Death: 9 JUN 1899
 
Married: 5 JUN 1861  

John M. Jessup

Birth: 11 SEP 1828, NC
Death: 2 FEB 1900, Smith County TX
Oakwood Cemetery

John was 33 and Mary was 14 when they married.

Newspaper announcement of John and Mary's marriage.

[AUSTIN] STATE GAZETTE, June 22, 1861, p. 3, c. 2
Smith.—Capt. Chilton's   company of cavalry took up the line of march on the 8th inst. For  Dallas. It is part of Col. Greer's  regiment, destined  for the Indian Nation.
On the  10th the  artillery company, raised, says the  Sentinel, by Lieutenants Douglas and Davis,  part of the same regiment, marched  for the same destination.
Married, on  Wednesday evening, by the Rev. A. G. Irvine, Mr. J. M. Jessup, to Miss Mary E.,
daughter  of Col. T. B. Erwin, all of this county.
John  C. Robertson, Esq., has  just returned from Montgomery, and is now raising a
company for the Confederate  service. It will be a portion of Col.  Greer's regiment.

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As seen in the 1870 census, after Col. Tom passed away in 1868, Mary, along with sister Laura, brother Thomas Gawes, and all their families, moved in with their mother Elizabeth.

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1880 Smith County Census

 

Fannie McFarland is living with the Jessups because her mother Larissa died two years earlier in April 1878.

John enlisted in 1862 into the Fourteenth (Clarks) Infantry