Melvina Miriam Culpepper

Female, #35362, (24 Jan 1876 - 25 Dec 1958)

Parent*John Malcolm Culpepper (13 Nov 1835 - 10 Jan 1927)
Parent*Sarah Ann Elizabeth Stephens (22 Oct 1839 - 21 Jul 1906)
Melvina Miriam Culpepper|b. 24 Jan 1876\nd. 25 Dec 1958|p35362.htm|John Malcolm Culpepper|b. 13 Nov 1835\nd. 10 Jan 1927|p32460.htm|Sarah Ann Elizabeth Stephens|b. 22 Oct 1839\nd. 21 Jul 1906|p32461.htm|Rev. William H. Culpepper|b. 17 Oct 1813\nd. 22 Mar 1909|p32073.htm|Sarah Leslie|b. 15 Feb 1808\nd. 22 Jan 1849|p32074.htm|||||||

Name Variation  Melvina Miriam Culpepper was also known as Mattie Myra. 
Birth*24 Jan 1876 Melvina was born at Randolph Co., Alabama, on 24 Jan 1876. 
 She was the daughter of John Malcolm Culpepper and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Stephens. 
1880 Census1880 Sarah, Nancy and Melvina was listed as a daughter in John Malcolm Culpepper's household on the 1880 Census at Randolph Co., Alabama. 46 m-Beat 8 ED 111-19. 
PhotographedNov 1891 John Malcolm Culpepper was photographed Seated next to John Malcolm and wife Sarah A. E. Stephens is their son Daniel and his first wife Dora (Hardison) Stephens Culpepper. She was a widow of a man named Stephens and some relation to Sarah's family before she married Daniel. She is holding Addie Culpepper who married a Hayden. Immediately behind her on the left are siblings, Mattie Culpepper Minter and Luther Culpepper. The young lady on the right is a Miss Hardison, Daniel's sister-in-law. Lavyn says Mattie wanted Capus to marry this lady but he had other ideas. Source: Tommie Smith in Nov 1891 at Hopkins Co., Texas.1
John Malcolm Culpepper family, 1891
Marriage*1892 She married Robert Edward Minter at Hopkins Co., Texas, in 1892. 
Married Name1892  As of 1892, her married name was Minter. 
Death*25 Dec 1958 She died at Hopkins Co., Texas, on 25 Dec 1958. 
Burial*27 Dec 1958 Her body was interred on 27 Dec 1958 at Pine Forest Cemetery, Pine Forest, Hopkins Co., Texas. 
Biography* Melvina Miriam Culpepper was the daughter of John Malcolm and Sarah Ann Elizabeth (Stephens) Culpepper. She was presumably named for two of John Malcolm Culpepper's sisters but she went by the name "Mattie Myra." She was born in Randolph Co., AL but, sometime after the 1880 census, her parents moved the family by wagon train to Grant Co., AR.

In 1892,2 Mattie Myra's parents took her and her younger brother along with her older brother, Luther, and went by train to Saltillo, Hopkins Co., TX3 where they settled down in the Pine Forest Community.

There Mattie Myra met and married Ed Minter and they are noted with their young family in the 1900 census of Hopkins Co., TX. Mrs. D. W. (Lavyn Wright) Sisco wrote4 that Ed "made sure his wife, Mattie, had a new dress or hat. She did enjoy looking nice even when she was a very old lady and was in poor health."

Ed died in 1921 when Mattie Myra was 45 years old. She died in 1958 at the age of 82. 

Family

Robert Edward Minter (1 Mar 1860 - 27 Sep 1921)

Last Edited 20 May 2005

Citations

  1. E-mail from Tommie Sue Reeves Smith, e-mail address, 942 Clarice, Grand Prairie, TX 75051 to Lew Griffin, numerous e-mails.
    as provided by Lavyn Sisco.
  2. "Beautiful Tribute Paid to Uncle John Culpepper" unknown source, presumably a Hopkins Co., TX paper, circa 12 Jan 1927
  3. Mrs. D. W. (Lavyn Wright) Sisco, "John Malcolm Culpepper," typed sheet and letter 15 Apr 1994
  4. summary of the children of John Malcolm Culpepper