Glidewell, Mary Ann "Polly"

Summary

Father: Thomas H. Glidewell
Mother: Susan Allen

Birth: 6 Aug 1817, Wake County, North Carolina
Birth Source: Family Bible of son, William B. Freeman and Gravestone

Death: 29 May 1885, Lincoln County, Tennessee
Death Source: Gravestone, Phillips Cemetery, Chestnut Ridge

Spouse1: Andrew Jackson Freeman, m. 29 Dec. 1835, Lincoln County, TN
Spouse2: William Franklin Melson, m. 8 May 1853, Lincoln County, TN

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Narrative

Children of Mary Ann Glidewell and Andrew J. Freeman:

1. Belinda Clementine Freeman "Linney", b. 1836
2. Thomas Henderson Freeman, b. 1837
3. William B. Freeman, b. 1839
4. Louisa Eglantine Freeman, b. 1841
5. Perry Green Freeman, b. 1842
6. Frances Jane Freeman, b. 1844
7. Nancy Ruth Freeman, b. 1846

Children of Mary Ann Glidewell and William Franklin Melson:

1. Sophia A. Melson, b. 1855
2. Henry Reeves Melson, b. 1857
3. Mary Melson, b. 1858
4. George Melson, b. 1859

Mary's name is given as Mary Allen Glidewell on the death certificate of her son, Henry Reeves Melson.

Sources

1850 Census - District 10, Lincoln County, Tennessee
1860 Census - District 10, Lincoln County, Tennessee
1870 Census - South District, Lincoln County, Tennessee
1880 Census - District 10, Lincoln County, Tennessee
Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002, online database at Ancestry.com
Tennessee, Deaths and Burials Index, 1874-1955 (Death of Henry Reeves Melson)