Minnie Belle Fairchild

Notes:

In December, 2011, a descendant emailed that "Minnie Belle....is buried in Stone County, Mississippi, a Wiggins cemetery. Minnie married Reuben W. Lowery [and had two daughters].
Minnie and Ruben and the two girls were living in Wiggins at the time that Minnie died after the birth of a son; the baby died too. Minnie and the baby are buried in Wiggins. Ruben and the two girls took a train up to the Seminary area where some of his older children lived. Ruben died soon after. They said he was an old man and grieved himself to death. Fletcher, one of his grown sons, and his wife took in the two younger children, Gladys and Audrey, ages 4 and 2, and raised them."

Minnie married Reuben F. Lowery between 1917 and 1918 in Mississippi. Reuben was born in Mar 1862 in Alabama; died about 1923 in Covington County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

After her mother died, Emma and Audrey were raised by her older half-brother and his wife, Fletcher and Evie Lowery, in Covington County, Mississippi.

Family/Spouse: William David Travis. William (son of Archie M. Travis, Sr. and Willie Olivia Odom) was born on 2 Feb 1920 in Forrest County, Mississippi; died on 19 Jan 1971 in Forrest County, Mississippi; was buried in Forrest Memorial Gardens, Petal, Forrest County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Sennett Riels. Sennett was born on 29 May 1919 in Jones County, Mississippi; died on 23 Mar 1997 in Forrest County, Mississippi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

He had a military marker indicating that he served as a "Cpl US Marine Corps Vietnam."

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