Mary Lucinda AVERY^[1]

1826 - 1856  (30 years)

• Name	Mary Lucinda AVERY
  Birth	2 Feb 1826	Near Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina
  Gender	Female
  _UID	1E12C7CBFAF6408980E8095879DD4707E810
  Death	29 Jul 1856	Black Hawk, Carroll, Mississippi
  Person ID	I5317	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2004

  
  

  Father	Samuel AVERY,   b. 4 Nov 1788, Johnston County, North Carolina d. 22 Nov 1867, Black Hawk, Carroll, Mississippi (Age 79 years)
  Mother	Lucinda LANE,   b. 17 Apr 1796, Near Raleigh, Wake, North Carolina d. 31 May 1872, Black Hawk, Carroll, Mississippi (Age 76 years)
  Marriage	19 Mar 1814	Wake County, North Carolina
  Family ID	F2671	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family
  Marriage	Feb 1842	Tuscalloosa, Tuscalloosa, Alabama
  Family ID	F2669	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Five Hundred First Families of America, Compiled & edited by Alexander DuBin, 1978-1979, The Historical Publication Society, One East Forty Second Street, New York, New York, 10017: p.168 The first of definite record of this line was James Purcell who married Sarah Dowell. Their son was George Dowell Purcell. George Dowell Purcell, bonr Va., 1811, died 1886; married 1842, Mary Lucinda Avery, born Feb. 5, 1826, died 1856, daughter of Samuel and Lucinda (Lane) Avery. Samuel Avery, born N.C., Nov. 14, 1788, died May 31, 1872, the son of William Avery, member of the N.C. House of Commons. His wife Lucinda Lane, born 1796, died 1870, was the daughter of Nathaniel Lane, born 1770, died 1852, and his wife Elizabeth Smith; descendant of Sir Ralph Lane, who's wife was first cousin to Catherine Parr, sixth Queen of King Henry VIII. Sir Ralph Lane, was 1st Governor of "Lost Colony of Roanoke," 1585-1586; returned to England with Sir Francis Drake. (Reference: Paul Greene's "The Lost Colony of Roanoke.") William Avery was the brother of Waightstill Avery, signer, Mecklenberg (N.C.) Declaration of Independence. James S. Purcell, Civil War Veteran, merchant and planter, the son of the above George Dowell and Mary Lucinda (Avery) Purcell, born 1843, died 1909, married Feb. 2, 1868, Frances Melinda Cole, born 1849, died 191? daughter of Richard W. Cole and wife Eliza Jane Jones; descendant of William Cole (1598-1664), who came from England, 1618. Rev. George Dowell Purcell, son of the above marriage, born 1870, died 1932; married May 24, 1899, Ela Lee Browne, born 1872, died 1915, the daughter of James Newton Browne.

  
  

• Sources

  [S393] Linda Schmehl - Choctaw Lady, Linda Schmehl.