Death in the 19th Century; Women and Property Laws

JonesHeadstone

This is the gravestone for Mrs. Missouri Caroline Wall Horton Wallace Jones in East Mount Cemetery at Greenville, Texas. She was an independent woman who managed her property. What her first husband, Austin Horton left her at his death in 1873, she still held after two more husbands and eight children when she died. A remarkable women ahead of her time.

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