Today on November 1, 2015, All Saints Day, I pause to remember ancestors whom my grandmother nor her siblings ever remembered. The lady was Mary Ann Frances Shaw (born in 1823) who was the older half-sister of my 2nd great grandmother Nancy Dupree Going. They had the same mother but different fathers. Mary Ann married a Union County man eight years her junior, and he is pictured here with her probably in 1862 after he enlisted in Co. D of the 14th Regiment, Georgia Infantry. His name was Willis H. Page, a son of Richard Page. They married shortly before moving to Cherokee County, GA, along with her stepfather Griffin Dupree and mother Judy Fielder Shaw Dupree, all of their sons, plus the Vinsons, Coles, etc. Willis and his twin brother William J. Page fought in the same company until both were killed on the same day at the same battle (12 May 1864, Spotsylvania Court House, VA). Mary Ann remarried to Charley Walker, but I cannot find them on either the 1870 or 1880 census records. I did find her as a widow on the 1900 census, living in Cobb County, GA, but that is the last trace. She did not appear on the 1910 census, so I assume she passed away during the interim. Her oldest niece, "Aunt Evey" (Mary Ann Rebecca Evelina)Going was named for her.
By Frederick Tucker, Anna's distant cousin
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