Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameLewis Franklin MITCHUM 26
Birth Date1807
Birth PlaceSouth Carolina
Death Date1870 Age: 63
Death PlaceMcLemoresville, Carroll County, Tennessee,
Burial PlaceMcLemoresville, Carroll County, Tennessee, McLemoresville Cemetery
Spouses
Birth Date17 Feb 1824
Death Date1896 Age: 71
Death PlaceMilan, Gibson County, Tennessee
Burial PlaceMilan, Gibson County, Tennessee, Oakwood Cemetery
FatherJames Mann HURT Sr. (1797-1873)
Family ID4030
Marr Date17 Feb 1840
Marr PlaceCarroll County, Tennessee
Notes for Lewis Franklin MITCHUM
(1) Mar 1999: The Hurt Family Genealogy Page http://members.tripod.com/~suzid/hurt.html (2) Aug 2003: Ancestors of Sarah Elizabeth Hurt by Karen A. Smith - www.famillytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith (3) Aug 2003: RootsWeb.com Cahill/Hawkins Sherry Petersen
Notes for Elizabeth "Betsy" (Spouse 1)
Please note: I am in receipt of two differing years of death for Elizabeth Mitchum. They are 1896 and 1899. No definitive sources have been provided for either year.


The following information provided by Find A Grave contributor Martha Mitchem Graham #46542694;

This may be the grave belonging to Betsy Hurt Mitchum. She was married to Lewis Franklin Mitchum (1807 - 1870). They were parents of Robert Balie Mitchum.

The following information provided by Find A Grave contributor Emma (Shrum) Butler Duke #46631000;

Elizabeth (Hurt) Mitchum (b. 1824 - d. 1896) was the daughter of James Mann Hurt & Martha Patricia (Marshall) Mitchum. Elizabeth married Lewis Franklin Mitchum. Their daughter, Elizabeth Mitchum, married Francis M. Ray on 3 Jan 1889, in Ocala, Marion County, FL.


I am awaiting sources for this information.

The following information provided by Find A Grave contributor TR (#48784530)

From Ancestry.com: Born in Virginia, USA on 1824 to James Mann Hurt and Martha Patricia Marshall. Elizabeth married Lewis Franklin Mitchum and had 15 children. She passed away in 1899 in Milan, Gibson, Tennessee, USA.

Children's names:
Albert, Lewis, William Erwin, Elizabeth R, Harvey, Lizzie, Emily, Charles H, Bennie, Martha L, Mary A, James, Rocinda, Emma and Robert Balie Mitchum.

Inscription
"Her Daughter Lizzie Ray"
Gravesite Details
There are no birth or death dates engraved on this tombstone. Betsy is buried near by J.H. Mitchum, Donie Mitchum, & Robert B. Mitchum.
On Find A Grave.

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(1) Mar 1999: The Hurt Family Genealogy Page http://members.tripod.com/~suzid/hurt.html (2) Aug 2003: Ancestors of Sarah Elizabeth Hurt by Karen A. Smith - www.familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/m/i/Karen-A-Smith (3) Aug 2003: RootsWeb ocweb Clark Webster (4) Aug 2003: RootsWeb.com Cahill/Hawkins Sherry Petersen
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