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    1. [MSWILKIN] Perry/Shropshire Question
    2. Seeking info on Murdock T. Perry b. abt. 1847 married to MARTHA ANN Shropshire. Who are the parents of Martha Ann Shropshire?? Wilkinson County Marriage Records show Murdock T. Perry married MARTHA ANN Shropshire Dec. 10, 1872. They supposingly had a son George Wyley born Dec. 8, 1873. But I also have Murdock Perry married bef. 1873 to Mary Tabitha Shropshire (dau. of Wiley Shropshire b. 1830 and Mary McCurley b.1834) Wilkinson Co. Marriage Records show Tabitha Shropshire Perry married John S. Cobb on Jan. 15, 1878. Tabitha and John Cobb had 7 kids but the one that throws up a red flag to me is Amanda Cobb born Mar. 12, 1874. I doubled checked her birthdate. In the 1930 Census she was age 56 (which would verify 1874 again) living with John S. Cobb, age 79 in Gloster, MS If Tabitha had been married to Murdock that would mean she had a son George Wyley with Murdock in Dec., 1873 and then just 3 months later had daughter Amanda with John Cobb But, on the 1880 Census it shows George Wyley living with John Cobb and Tabitha and lists George as a stepson. George could very well be his stepson. But what Perry was Tabitha really married to????? On Tabitha's tombstone in lists her name as Tabitha A., (not Mary Tabitha) wife of J.S. Cobb born Aug. 30, 1855 and died Jan. 21, 1891. She is buried in Old Perrytown Cemetery, Turkey Creek Road, Wilkinson Co. ANY HELP on the above would be VERY APPRECIATED!!!!!!

    11/16/2003 09:11:36