Rosa
Lee Glover Perry
Rosa Lee Glover Perry
was born in 1849 and died in 1884 in childbirth. [Her portrait is [in 2001] in the possession of Mary Perry Kennedy Sturges.]
She was the daughter of
Benjamin Nash Glover (b 25 Aug. 1808-- died 4 Jan 1872), a lawyer in Marengo Co. Alabama. After the Civil War he moved to Choctaw County. He and his wife and several children are buried in Riverside Cemetery, Demopolis, AL., and
Susan Rosa Lee Diven (sister to Mary Ann Diven, who was married to Ben's brother Allen Glover). Susan Diven Glover was born (1 March 1809-died 1 Nov, 1885) in Winchester, Virginia and were brought by their father on a visit to the Gaines family in Demopolis, where they met and married the Glover brothers. Mary Ann and Allen were married in 1832, Benjamin Glover and Susan Diven in 1835. Allen was the older, and owned Rosemount, which was the big Glover mansion.). The preceding Diven kinsmen are buried in Winchester.
Rosa Lee Glover married Joseph Whittaker Perry, in 18-- and had 3 children:
Benjamin Glover Perry, (known by Mary Eliza Perry Gould as "Brother Ben" and in the stories of Delia Gould Doll and Susan Gould Kennedy as "Uncle") who married Maria ("Aunt Ria") Bouchelle, who were the parents of
Rosa Glover Perry (1907) who married Harvey Snook, parents of Nancy.
Ezra B. Perry (1912) who married Evelyn Fikes
Margaret Minor Perry ("Aunt Puchie") [1914]who married Colin Campbell and is the mother of Maria [1944] and Colin [1947], and
Joseph (Joe) [1916] who married Carolyn Miller
Mary Eliza Perry (b 1876-d1955] who married William Proctor Gould, Jr (third of that name)
These were your great grandparents, and my Grandmama and Grandpapa. Rosa Lee Glover died when Mary Eliza was 8 years old (I believe in childbirth with Sister Susie, aka Auntie, see below). She was taken temporarily into the custody of an Aunt, [I think a Glover], to be "raised properly," which included being dressed in deep mourning -- black from the skin out-- for her mother, until her father could care for her again (as he did when he married, first to Chotard Gould (everybody's adored "sister Chotard", who was older sister to William Proctor Gould, had crinkly red hair and freckles and was beautiful by today's standards, but not by her own at that time. She scratched herself out of all but one family picture. She died in childbirth. The child did not survive. I believe, and then "Namama," Annie B. Harkness, whom everybody remembers with adoration. She is, I am virtually certain, of the Florida Harkness family for whom Harkness Common at UFlorida is named), who bore two children,
Mary and Will are buried in the cemetery of St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Boligee, Alabama. They were the parents of two little boys who died (William and Joseph, I think, also buried in Boligee) and
Rosa Lee Gould (1903] my Aunt Rosa, who married Hamlin Alexander Caldwell and was mother of Hamlin Caldwell (b 1931]
Susan Perry Gould, (1906-1989) married to James Davidson Kennedy
and mother of Mary Perry Kennedy 91937) (mother of ) and and Susan Davidson Kennedy (1938),
Delia Francis Gould (Dec 8th, 1908 died ) who married (Oct.11, 19-- Harry Lee Doll (b July 31, 1903-died Aug 27, 1984) and was your grandmother, mother of Millicent Scott( 1936),Mary Chotard (1939] and Rebecca Tidball [1946], and
William Proctor Gould (1911) who married Edith Webb and Carolyn Spencer, both of whom died before him. Carolyn had a daughter, Mary Gould (whom Uncle Billy adopted) Another daughter, Martha, died at about 17 the same year as Mary Eliza Perry Gould.
Susan Glover Perry [ about 1884)(my mama's "Auntie," who was terribly deaf all her life,
and married Taylor Byrd, "Uncle Tay." They had no children.
Much of this information is in the Glovers of Marengo County Alabama, of which Mary Perry has a copy. There is information on the Glovers back to the first knon one, William, born about 1678, presumably in Virginia.
Mia (Millicent Scott Doll) Shargel