This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HU.2ADI/1466.1.3.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Decenber 31m 1857 Married by Rev. J.C. Jones at the residence of the bride's father in Wilcox County, Alabama on 28th Hon. Charles L. Scott (Representat4ive in Congress for California) to Miss Ann V. Gorin, eldest daughter of G. Gorin, esq. Source: Marriage, Death and Legal Notices From Early Alabama Newspapers, 1819-1893 compiled by Pauline Jones Gandrud, Southern Historical Press, Easley, S.C., c. 1981, p. 588 Ann Vivian Gorin's Mother's Obituray Mobile Daily Register 30 April 1862, Wednesday Page 2 Column 5 Died at Magnolia, the residence of her husband, G. Gorin, jEsq., in the county of Marengo, on the morning of Tuesday 22d inst. Mrs. Jane Gorin. Thus has it pleased an all-wise Providence to take from her career of usefulness and her devoted family this admirable and pious lady. Her loss to them is irreparable. Mrs. Gorin was no common lady in vigorous intellect a kind and generous dispostion, and an avowed, professing and sincere Christian. Long will she be held in affectionate remembrance, for her charity to the poor and her kindness as a neighbor. Richmond papers will please copy. Ann Vivian's Aunt Virginia P. Wormley's Obituary also has California associatitons. Mobile Daily Register 20 January 1870, Thursday Morning Page 3 Column 4 On the 25th inst., of pneumonia, at the residence of her sister, Mrs. R.G. Scott, near Claiborne, Ala., Mrs. Virginia P. Strode, relict of the late Charles Bayard Strode, of San Francisco, California. Sadly we record the death of one endeared to all by her fine qualities, and upright, noble nature. She had just returned to her early home, after years of absence, to settle among her kindred, where her merry laugh, joyous spirit, and brilliant wit, gave light and sunshine to their hearts and home. Blessed with health, wealth, and a troupe of friends her future prospects bright and alluring, life could promise no more. Generous and sympathetic in her friendships, kind and affectionate in her domestic sphere, earnest, truthful and charitable in all her relations in life, praise falls justly as a tribute to merit and virtue. Intellectual, cultivated, amiable and loving, she was the idol of her sister's heart, who in her desolation "mourns as one without hope." Weep for the living, not for the dead. Weep for the weary hearted. And we pay the homage of a sympathetic tear for the bereaved friends and relatives. Richmond (Va.) and San Francisco papers will please notice. Ann Vivian Goren Scott was educated at the Visitation Convent in Washington, D.C. at the expense of her cousin Emma Eugenea Dellet Gibbons. I will find you more facts as I am able to abstract them from the mass of materials I have. Chuck