These are
the daughters of Elijah Petty (1806-1881).
Elijah is my g-g-
grandfather. He was born in Surry
County, North Carolina, his parents were the early pioneers there. His first wife Letty Lewis had five kids:
three sons and two daughters. They moved to Fannin County, Georgia, and
Letty died. After Letty died Elijah
married Sarah Parker. They had seven children, one son and six daughters.
The women in
the picture are probably sisters and half-sisters.
I found the
Elijah Petty Family Cemetery about half-way between Morganton and Suches,
Georgia. It is in the woods about a
hundred feet from the road, I would have never found it, but by coincidence I
was talking to man in Morganton retired from the Air Force who was a school bus
driver. His last name was Petty. But if we are related it is not close, he is
from the north. Somebody told him of the
Petty Cemetery on his school bus route. He took me there.
The solitary
grave stone is Elijah Petty's
Sometimes I
think I was ordained to do family research, things hard to find just fall in my
lap.
Elijah Petty Family Cemetery
Elijah Petty's Grave
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