At the risk of some of you laughing at this but I have need to know. When it's marked on a woman's tombstone that she was the "consort" of so-n-so, what does that mean. Does it mean that the woman was his wife or she was his mistress or what. All opinions and comments are welcome. Thank you. ===== Edye Higgins Byhalia, MS ====== Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings forget how to fly. Get up to $45 FREE postage with Stamps.com! Click here: Stamps.com http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=27893756&siteid=35532320&bfpage=stamps_com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/

Edye, A consort is a wife whose husband is living. If she had been listed as "Relict", that would have meant that she was a widow when she died since you found that listed on her headstone. Tina Hall ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edye Higgins" <oscar38606@yahoo.com> To: <MISSISSIPPI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 1:16 PM Subject: MEANING OF "CONSORT" > At the risk of some of you laughing at this but I have need to know. > When it's marked on a woman's tombstone that she was the "consort" of > so-n-so, what does that mean. Does it mean that the woman was his > wife or she was his mistress or what. > > All opinions and comments are welcome. Thank you. > > ===== > Edye Higgins > Byhalia, MS > ====== > Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings forget how to fly.

Mistress ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edye Higgins" <oscar38606@yahoo.com> To: <MISSISSIPPI-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:16 PM Subject: MEANING OF "CONSORT" > At the risk of some of you laughing at this but I have need to know. > When it's marked on a woman's tombstone that she was the "consort" of > so-n-so, what does that mean. Does it mean that the woman was his > wife or she was his mistress or what. > > All opinions and comments are welcome. Thank you. > > ===== > Edye Higgins > Byhalia, MS > ====== > Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings forget how to fly. > > Get up to $45 FREE postage with Stamps.com! Click here: Stamps.com http://service.bfast.com/bfast/click?bfmid=27893756&siteid=35532320&bfpage=s tamps_com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. > http://auctions.yahoo.com/ > > > ==== MISSISSIPPI Mailing List ==== > Visit the Mississippi-L Website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mississi > where you can both SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE with a click of the mouse. > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > >

Edye, Sorry I'm a little late in the discussion but, on tombstone inscriptions, "consort" was a term used if the wife died before the husband and "relict" was used if the husband had died first. I had this on pretty good authority and have since checked the death dates on husbands/wives' tombstone inscriptions and it's proven to be true. For instance, my g-g-g-grandmother's inscription reads: "Catharine McCormick, consort of Duncan McCormick, d.9/30/1831" She died some years before he did and I know they were married in 1789, because I found a record of it in their parish records in Scotland. (I shudder to imagine what my poor Presbyterian g-g-g-grandmother would think if she knew what the term might imply today!!!) If anyone has found any inscriptions to the contrary, I'd like to know, because before I started my own "survey" I'd often wondered myself. Nancy Brister ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Edye Higgins" <oscar38606@yahoo.com> > To: <MISSISSIPPI-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:16 PM > Subject: MEANING OF "CONSORT" > > > > At the risk of some of you laughing at this but I have need to know. > > When it's marked on a woman's tombstone that she was the "consort" of > > so-n-so, what does that mean. Does it mean that the woman was his > > wife or she was his mistress or what. > > > > All opinions and comments are welcome. Thank you. > > > > ===== > > Edye Higgins > > Byhalia, MS > > ======