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Elizabeth Roughton Hughes “Lizzie” Flagg

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Elizabeth Roughton Hughes “Lizzie” Flagg

Birth
Rogersville, Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA
Death
9 Apr 1942 (aged 80)
Morristown, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA
Burial
Whitesburg, Hamblen County, Tennessee, USA GPS-Latitude: 36.2607941, Longitude: -83.1422817
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Martha Elizabeth Roughton Hughes,9 b. Rogersville, Tenn., 3 Oct., 1861. She has always been known as "Lizzie." Was her father's housekeeper and the "little mother" of the family, and began teaching in his school when seventeen. After her father's death retained the home in Whitesburg, Tenn., but on the death of her sister Margaret (Mrs. White) and her husband, was appointed guardian of the two children and moved to their home in Tazewell, Tenn., where she still resides, intending however to return shortly to the parental house in Whitesburg. Unmarried.

From Charles Allcott Flagg, Descendants of Josiah Flagg of Berkeley County, W. VA., (T. R. Marvin & Son, Boston, Mass. 1920), Page 33-41
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Martha Elizabeth Roughton Hughes,9 b. Rogersville, Tenn., 3 Oct., 1861. She has always been known as "Lizzie." Was her father's housekeeper and the "little mother" of the family, and began teaching in his school when seventeen. After her father's death retained the home in Whitesburg, Tenn., but on the death of her sister Margaret (Mrs. White) and her husband, was appointed guardian of the two children and moved to their home in Tazewell, Tenn., where she still resides, intending however to return shortly to the parental house in Whitesburg. Unmarried.

From Charles Allcott Flagg, Descendants of Josiah Flagg of Berkeley County, W. VA., (T. R. Marvin & Son, Boston, Mass. 1920), Page 33-41
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