Tombstone Tuesday - Benevolance Methodist Cemetery, Sumter County, Georgia

Rev. Asa Ansley was born 11 JUL 1804 in Warren County, Georgia and died 23 APR 1883 in Warren County, Georgia.  He was married 2 MAR 1826 in Warren County, Georgia to Rebecca Wade.

Together they were the parents of 8 known children, Elbert O. Ansley (1827-1865), Julia Ann Ansley (1829-1850), James R. Ansley (1834-1912), Mary Frances Ansley (1835-1909), William A. Ansley (1837-1906), Thomas W. Ansley (1839-1882), Charles W. Ansley (1842- ?), and Susan R. Ansley (1846- ?).

Asa was the son of Abel Ansley & his wife, Lydia Harrison Morris Ansley.

He is buried in Benevolance Methodist Church Cemetery, Americus, Sumter County, Georgia

**Headstone photo by Mark Krugman

Wedding Wednesday - The Gov. Marries!

Thomas Watkins Ligon was born in Prince Edward County, Virginia on 10 MAY 1810 and died 12 JAN 1881 in Howard County, Maryland.  He was a representative in the 29th & 30th Congress and was the Governor of Maryland from 1854-1858.  He was married twice, to sisters, the first above was to Mary T. Dorsey and after her death, he remarried to her sister, Sally Dorsey. 

There were a total of five children from the two marriages, three survived him at his death. 

Wedding Wednesday - Eudaley & Curry (1902)

Ben Curry & Fannie Eudaley 

Earlington Bee,  5 June 1902, p. 7

Curry-Eudaley

At 1:30 p.m. Tuesday June 3rd at the M.E. church south Nebo., Ky., Rev. B.M. Curry of this city and Miss Fannie Eudaley, of Nebo, were united in the holy bonds of wedlock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. J. H. Harrison, President of Vanderbilt training school Elkton, Ky., under whom the groom graduated.

The church was beautifully and attractively decorated by Mrs. J. T. Robards, and Miss Lillian Robards played the wedding march with her usual charming skill. Ushers Robt. Payne and Travis Sights seated the large crowd as best they could, but the house was far to small to accommodate the many friends of the bride and groom.

Mr. Minnos Cox and Miss Nannie Winstead were waiters. The bride was dressed in pure white and the groom in solid black. After the ceremony they were driven to Earlington where a sumptuous repast was partaken of with Mr. and Mrs. Y. Q. Walker and the happy couple left on the eleven o'clock train for the groom's home in Brownsville, Tenn., where they will spend the honeymoon. We sincerely hope the guiding star if true love may ever shine down the dim vistas of their coming days and light the journey along the pathway of life, rest o'er their couch when time with them shall be no more, then pilot them to their appointed places in the heavens where it will continue its ceaseless revolutions around the glittering throne of His Majesty on high.