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Mary Elizabeth Nelms/Nelams was born May 9, 1829 and died March 14, 1912 Webster Co. MS

1870 Census Calhoun County Mississippi----P 427, No 19-19, Twp 22, Range 10E, Hopewell

Name
Age
 Sex
Samuel Sturdevant 42 M AL
Mary Sturdevant 36 F AL
Elisabeth Sturdevant 17 F AL
Sarah Sturdevant 15 F AL
John Sturdevant 14 M AL
Nancy Sturdevant 13 F AL
Henry Sturdevant 9 M MS
Mary Sturdevant 8 F MS
Martha Sturdevant 7 F MS
George Sturdevant 5 M MS
Margaret Sturdevant 1 F MS

1880 Census Calhoun County Mississippi----Beat 5, P 659C

Name
Age
 Sex
Sam Studiran M 50 AL---TN--- Farmer
Mary E. Studiran F 45 AL---GA---GA Wife
Elizabeth Studiran F 27 AL---AL---AL Daughter
Henry Studiran M 20 AL---AL---AL Son
Mary J. Studiran F 15 MS---AL---AL Daughter
Martha Studiran F 17 MS---AL---AL Daughter
George Studiran M 14 MS---AL---AL Son
Margret Studiran F 11 MS---AL---AL Daughter
Joseph B. Studiran M 8 MS---AL---AL Son
James Studiran M 6 MS---AL---AL Son
Calestine Studiran F 4 MS---AL---AL Daughter
Emma Studiran F 2 MS---AL---AL Daughter

1900 Census Delta County Texas----ED 36, P 21, L 3, Pct 3

Name
Date of Birth
 Sex Age
Birthplace
Relation
Samuel T. Sturdivant May 1830 M 70 AL
Mary E. Sturdivant May 1835 F 65 GA Wife
Missouri O. Sturdivant Feb. 1877 F 23 MS Daughter
Salina M. Stringfellow June 1870 F 29 MS Daughter
Thomas W. Stringfellow Nov. 1886 M 13 MS Grandson
Mary D. Stringfellow Nov. 1888 F 11 MS Granddaughter
Beulah O. Stringfellow Mar. 1893 F 7 MS Granddaughter

Written by Ivy Sturdivant Watson (daughter of Henry T., son of Samuel Thomas Sturdivant)

Samuel Thomas Sturdivant was born May 21, 1830 in Alabama close to the Tuscaloosa River.
Mary Elizabeth Nelms was born in the year 1829 in Georgia. They were married and lived in Aabama a few years.

They started to Texas in a wagon train, but while traveling through Mississippi a horse fell through a bridge and broke a leg, and had to be killed. They stopped there, and 40 years later moved to Texas, after their children were grown.

Nov. 3, 1899 they arrived in Cooper, Delta County Texas.

Samuel Sturdivant had a leg amputated the day before his 70th birthday. A year os so later, they returned to Mississippi. They remained there until their deaths.

According to the tombstone record in Montevista Cemetery, Samuel T. Sturdivant and wife Mary Elizabeth were both born in 1829.

The 1900 Census gives the birth of Samuel T. Sturdivant as 1830.
The 1870 give the birth of Mary Elizabeth Nelms as 1834.
The 1880 and the 1900 Census give her birth as 1835.