The Grand Gulf Military Park Museum, Claiborne County, Mississippi, displays a hoop skirt which belonged to Olive Margaret Drexler Caston, who was born in Fayette, Mississippi. During the Civil War, she lived with her family in Grand Gulf. When the gunboats shelled Grand Gulf, it was reported that a shell went through the back of a rocking chair which sat on the front porch of her house.
Thank You to Find A Grave contributor Julia Baker for providing the above information.
also Olive took in her nieces Elizabeth and Alice Foster, after their mother and Olive's sister Tennessee Elizabeth Drexler Foster passed away
Thank You to Find A Grave contributor Julia Baker for providing the above information.
also Olive took in her nieces Elizabeth and Alice Foster, after their mother and Olive's sister Tennessee Elizabeth Drexler Foster passed away
The Grand Gulf Military Park Museum, Claiborne County, Mississippi, displays a hoop skirt which belonged to Olive Margaret Drexler Caston, who was born in Fayette, Mississippi. During the Civil War, she lived with her family in Grand Gulf. When the gunboats shelled Grand Gulf, it was reported that a shell went through the back of a rocking chair which sat on the front porch of her house.
Thank You to Find A Grave contributor Julia Baker for providing the above information.
also Olive took in her nieces Elizabeth and Alice Foster, after their mother and Olive's sister Tennessee Elizabeth Drexler Foster passed away
Thank You to Find A Grave contributor Julia Baker for providing the above information.
also Olive took in her nieces Elizabeth and Alice Foster, after their mother and Olive's sister Tennessee Elizabeth Drexler Foster passed away
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