Elmira Culpepper
Female, #2555, (22 Mar 1855 - 6 Jun 1940)
| Name Variation | | Elmira Culpepper was also known as Aunt Shank. |
| Birth* | 22 Mar 1855 | Elmira was born at Mississippi on 22 Mar 1855. |
| | She was the daughter of Ambrose Culpepper and Mary A. F. Culpepper. |
| 1860 Census | 1 Jun 1860 | Mary, Nancy, Olivia and Elmira listed as a household member living with Ambrose Culpepper in the 1860 Census at Lauderdale Co., Mississippi.1 |
| Marriage* | 4 May 1871 | She married James Manning Hardin at Lauderdale Co., Mississippi, on 4 May 1871. James Manning Hardin, Jr., the son of James and Elmira, married Eula Thompson. Eula was the daughter of my (Beth Welch's) great-grandfather and sister of my grandfather..2,3 |
| Married Name | 4 May 1871 | As of 4 May 1871, her married name was Hardin.3 |
| Death* | 6 Jun 1940 | She died at Sumter Co., Alabama, on 6 Jun 1940.4 |
| Burial* | circa 8 Jun 1940 | Her body was interred circa 8 Jun 1940 at Liberty Baptist Church Cemetery, Cuba, Sumter Co., Alabama. |
Citations
- 1860 Federal Census, United States.
Page 173, Family 1189, Lines 3-7, Beat 5, Lauderdale, MS
Culpepper, 30, M, Farmer, RE=$540, PE=$600, GA
Mary A. F. Culpepper, 30, F, Dom. Bus, GA
Nancy J. Culpepper, 9, F, MS
Olivia Culpepper, 7, F, MS
Elmira Culpepper, 5, F, MS.
- E-mail from Elizabeth 'Beth' Welch, e-mail address, Birmingham, Alabama to Warren Culpepper, May 2005.
- James T. Dawson, compiler, Lauderdale County, Mississippi Marriage Records, Online database at Ancestry.com, 1993.
Elmira Culpepper and J. M. Hardin married 4 May 1871 in Lauderdale Co., MS
(Note in book from Ambrous Culpepper giving permission for his daughter, Elmira, to wed J. M. Hardin 2 May 1871).
- E-mail from Elizabeth 'Beth' Welch, e-mail address, Birmingham, Alabama to Warren Culpepper, May 2005.
Elmira Culpepper died 6 Jun 1940 in Sumter County, Alabama. Alabama death certificate #14925.