W/o W.L.
From Becky Mosely, 2/2006.
b. Oswichee, AL
d. Columbus, GA
Parents: James A. Whitaker & Mary Emma Crowell
Husband: William Lane Nisbet
MRS. MARY NISBET, COLUMBUS' WELL-LOVED ADOPTED CITIZEN NEAR LIFE'S CENTURY MARK
Columbus Paper
Ninety-three years ago today a tiny baby girl was born on a plantation on the banks of the Chattahoochee. Today this little girl, a woman - lovely and greatly loved - on whose face the years have placed their mark with gentle fingers, sits in her Columbus home and looks back on the happenings of almost a century.
Ninety-three years. Our mind will scarcely grasp its span. The young Victoria ruling England's destinies with the handsome Albert at her side; our great United States a struggling nation with the Republican John Tyler as its president; the vast country beyond the Mississippi a mysterious wilderness; the North separated from the South by weeks of tortuous traveling in private carriage and rumbling stagecoach; the day of the "pony-express"; the electric telegraph undreamed of and the world of today more unimaginable than any Utopia.
Nearly a century ago! When cities were few and men lived leisurely lives in spacious country homes. When Indian villages were on the outskirts of the Alabama plantation where little Mary Bradford Whitaker spent her sunny childhood, and when Indian massacres were not yet relegated to history. When Columbus was a trading post, a frontier village where slaves and Indians outnumbered the white man, but the big town that stood fair among the pines for little Mary's parents.
An age of gracious living, an age that bred lovely and gallant women. An age that knew and nurtured little Mary Whitaker. A child of sunshine, Mary Whitaker grew to young ladyhood, the belle of the countryside, gentle, with a sunny smile. On December 17, 1872, she moved from the home of her parents to the nearby plantation of William Nisbet where, until his death years later, she live the lovely mistress of a charming home.
[Their were no living descendants of this union.]
Mary B. Nisbet was an accomplished artist.
From Becky Mosely, 2/2006.
b. Oswichee, AL
d. Columbus, GA
Parents: James A. Whitaker & Mary Emma Crowell
Husband: William Lane Nisbet
MRS. MARY NISBET, COLUMBUS' WELL-LOVED ADOPTED CITIZEN NEAR LIFE'S CENTURY MARK
Columbus Paper
Ninety-three years ago today a tiny baby girl was born on a plantation on the banks of the Chattahoochee. Today this little girl, a woman - lovely and greatly loved - on whose face the years have placed their mark with gentle fingers, sits in her Columbus home and looks back on the happenings of almost a century.
Ninety-three years. Our mind will scarcely grasp its span. The young Victoria ruling England's destinies with the handsome Albert at her side; our great United States a struggling nation with the Republican John Tyler as its president; the vast country beyond the Mississippi a mysterious wilderness; the North separated from the South by weeks of tortuous traveling in private carriage and rumbling stagecoach; the day of the "pony-express"; the electric telegraph undreamed of and the world of today more unimaginable than any Utopia.
Nearly a century ago! When cities were few and men lived leisurely lives in spacious country homes. When Indian villages were on the outskirts of the Alabama plantation where little Mary Bradford Whitaker spent her sunny childhood, and when Indian massacres were not yet relegated to history. When Columbus was a trading post, a frontier village where slaves and Indians outnumbered the white man, but the big town that stood fair among the pines for little Mary's parents.
An age of gracious living, an age that bred lovely and gallant women. An age that knew and nurtured little Mary Whitaker. A child of sunshine, Mary Whitaker grew to young ladyhood, the belle of the countryside, gentle, with a sunny smile. On December 17, 1872, she moved from the home of her parents to the nearby plantation of William Nisbet where, until his death years later, she live the lovely mistress of a charming home.
[Their were no living descendants of this union.]
Mary B. Nisbet was an accomplished artist.
W/o W.L.
From Becky Mosely, 2/2006.
b. Oswichee, AL
d. Columbus, GA
Parents: James A. Whitaker & Mary Emma Crowell
Husband: William Lane Nisbet
MRS. MARY NISBET, COLUMBUS' WELL-LOVED ADOPTED CITIZEN NEAR LIFE'S CENTURY MARK
Columbus Paper
Ninety-three years ago today a tiny baby girl was born on a plantation on the banks of the Chattahoochee. Today this little girl, a woman - lovely and greatly loved - on whose face the years have placed their mark with gentle fingers, sits in her Columbus home and looks back on the happenings of almost a century.
Ninety-three years. Our mind will scarcely grasp its span. The young Victoria ruling England's destinies with the handsome Albert at her side; our great United States a struggling nation with the Republican John Tyler as its president; the vast country beyond the Mississippi a mysterious wilderness; the North separated from the South by weeks of tortuous traveling in private carriage and rumbling stagecoach; the day of the "pony-express"; the electric telegraph undreamed of and the world of today more unimaginable than any Utopia.
Nearly a century ago! When cities were few and men lived leisurely lives in spacious country homes. When Indian villages were on the outskirts of the Alabama plantation where little Mary Bradford Whitaker spent her sunny childhood, and when Indian massacres were not yet relegated to history. When Columbus was a trading post, a frontier village where slaves and Indians outnumbered the white man, but the big town that stood fair among the pines for little Mary's parents.
An age of gracious living, an age that bred lovely and gallant women. An age that knew and nurtured little Mary Whitaker. A child of sunshine, Mary Whitaker grew to young ladyhood, the belle of the countryside, gentle, with a sunny smile. On December 17, 1872, she moved from the home of her parents to the nearby plantation of William Nisbet where, until his death years later, she live the lovely mistress of a charming home.
[Their were no living descendants of this union.]
Mary B. Nisbet was an accomplished artist.
From Becky Mosely, 2/2006.
b. Oswichee, AL
d. Columbus, GA
Parents: James A. Whitaker & Mary Emma Crowell
Husband: William Lane Nisbet
MRS. MARY NISBET, COLUMBUS' WELL-LOVED ADOPTED CITIZEN NEAR LIFE'S CENTURY MARK
Columbus Paper
Ninety-three years ago today a tiny baby girl was born on a plantation on the banks of the Chattahoochee. Today this little girl, a woman - lovely and greatly loved - on whose face the years have placed their mark with gentle fingers, sits in her Columbus home and looks back on the happenings of almost a century.
Ninety-three years. Our mind will scarcely grasp its span. The young Victoria ruling England's destinies with the handsome Albert at her side; our great United States a struggling nation with the Republican John Tyler as its president; the vast country beyond the Mississippi a mysterious wilderness; the North separated from the South by weeks of tortuous traveling in private carriage and rumbling stagecoach; the day of the "pony-express"; the electric telegraph undreamed of and the world of today more unimaginable than any Utopia.
Nearly a century ago! When cities were few and men lived leisurely lives in spacious country homes. When Indian villages were on the outskirts of the Alabama plantation where little Mary Bradford Whitaker spent her sunny childhood, and when Indian massacres were not yet relegated to history. When Columbus was a trading post, a frontier village where slaves and Indians outnumbered the white man, but the big town that stood fair among the pines for little Mary's parents.
An age of gracious living, an age that bred lovely and gallant women. An age that knew and nurtured little Mary Whitaker. A child of sunshine, Mary Whitaker grew to young ladyhood, the belle of the countryside, gentle, with a sunny smile. On December 17, 1872, she moved from the home of her parents to the nearby plantation of William Nisbet where, until his death years later, she live the lovely mistress of a charming home.
[Their were no living descendants of this union.]
Mary B. Nisbet was an accomplished artist.
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