Board: Message Boards > Surnames > Eddy URL: http://boards.ancestry.com.au/surnames.eddy/927/mb.ashx Subject: Mary Maude Eddy, 1874-1953, Tennessee Author: woodmonteiro Date: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 Classification: Query Surnames: Eddy, St. John, Mallaby, Whitton, Stooksbury
My great-grandmother, Mary Maude Eddy, was born 17 Aug 1874 in Tennessee. Much of the information I have on her is vague and suspect because she was adopted, but the family says that Eddy was her actual surname. She was raised probably in Union County but possibly Anderson County, and I believe that the family who raised her was named Stooksbury, but I am not positive about that. She may have been born in New Market, Jefferson County, and her mother may have been a St. John. I have not been able to do any research into this information (waiting for those Tennessee marriage records to come online, and I live far from Tennessee.) She had a brother named Lewis Mallaby (with different spellings in various records.) It's not clear to me if that surname came from his adoptive family or his birth parents, but I think it was from his adoptive family. Mary married Joseph Paris Whitton in Maynardville, Union County, TN on 30 April 1892. They lived in Anderson County and later Knox County, Tennessee. I have information on their children which I'm happy to share. I have her death certificate, but it does not have her parents' names. If anyone has her in your tree, I would be very interested to find out any information or leads about her parents. The fact of her being adopted has obviously made this a difficult line to trace, but I thought I would give it a shot. Many thanks for any help.
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