Minnie Ellen Edgar was born in Terryville, Texas 09 Oct 1885. Her parents were Perry Eugene Edgar (1857-1930) and Parthenia Ellen "Pattie" Power (1864-1886).
She was a 1907 graduate of Southwest Texas State Normal School (after that, it was Southwest Texas State Teachers' College and is now Texas State University) in San Marcus, Texas. She was teaching school in Cuero, Texas when she met a young entomology scientist, Marvin Merritte High who was working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Cuero on truck insect investigations. He was from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi and had recently graduated from Mississippi State College (at that time, a military school; now Mississippi State University).
After a courtship of several years, they were married the evening of Tuesday, 19 Oct 1915 in the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. They first lived in Brownsville, Texas then in Kingsville, Texas and finally in Gulfport, Mississippi as he was transferred to different stations within the U.S.D.A. doing research and field investigations to help find ways to lessen the risk and severity of insect damage to crops.
Minnie Ellen, or "Miss Minnie" as she was affectionately called later in life, never lost her love of family and of teaching and of her Texas ancestral roots. And, especially in later years, she developed a love of gardening, especially roses, day lillies and hydrangeas which she grew into magnificent gardens at their country home in the Landon community, about five miles north of Gulfport, Mississippi. Whenever family or friends would visit, she was always anxious to "divide for them," offering plants and cuttings for them to take home with them.
She and Merritte remained married until his death in 1961. Together, they had three children:
- Jean Marie High (1920-1993)
- Marvin Merritt High, Jr. (1921-1969)
- John Edgar High (1926-2003)
She was a 1907 graduate of Southwest Texas State Normal School (after that, it was Southwest Texas State Teachers' College and is now Texas State University) in San Marcus, Texas. She was teaching school in Cuero, Texas when she met a young entomology scientist, Marvin Merritte High who was working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Cuero on truck insect investigations. He was from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi and had recently graduated from Mississippi State College (at that time, a military school; now Mississippi State University).
After a courtship of several years, they were married the evening of Tuesday, 19 Oct 1915 in the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. They first lived in Brownsville, Texas then in Kingsville, Texas and finally in Gulfport, Mississippi as he was transferred to different stations within the U.S.D.A. doing research and field investigations to help find ways to lessen the risk and severity of insect damage to crops.
Minnie Ellen, or "Miss Minnie" as she was affectionately called later in life, never lost her love of family and of teaching and of her Texas ancestral roots. And, especially in later years, she developed a love of gardening, especially roses, day lillies and hydrangeas which she grew into magnificent gardens at their country home in the Landon community, about five miles north of Gulfport, Mississippi. Whenever family or friends would visit, she was always anxious to "divide for them," offering plants and cuttings for them to take home with them.
She and Merritte remained married until his death in 1961. Together, they had three children:
- Jean Marie High (1920-1993)
- Marvin Merritt High, Jr. (1921-1969)
- John Edgar High (1926-2003)
Minnie Ellen Edgar was born in Terryville, Texas 09 Oct 1885. Her parents were Perry Eugene Edgar (1857-1930) and Parthenia Ellen "Pattie" Power (1864-1886).
She was a 1907 graduate of Southwest Texas State Normal School (after that, it was Southwest Texas State Teachers' College and is now Texas State University) in San Marcus, Texas. She was teaching school in Cuero, Texas when she met a young entomology scientist, Marvin Merritte High who was working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Cuero on truck insect investigations. He was from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi and had recently graduated from Mississippi State College (at that time, a military school; now Mississippi State University).
After a courtship of several years, they were married the evening of Tuesday, 19 Oct 1915 in the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. They first lived in Brownsville, Texas then in Kingsville, Texas and finally in Gulfport, Mississippi as he was transferred to different stations within the U.S.D.A. doing research and field investigations to help find ways to lessen the risk and severity of insect damage to crops.
Minnie Ellen, or "Miss Minnie" as she was affectionately called later in life, never lost her love of family and of teaching and of her Texas ancestral roots. And, especially in later years, she developed a love of gardening, especially roses, day lillies and hydrangeas which she grew into magnificent gardens at their country home in the Landon community, about five miles north of Gulfport, Mississippi. Whenever family or friends would visit, she was always anxious to "divide for them," offering plants and cuttings for them to take home with them.
She and Merritte remained married until his death in 1961. Together, they had three children:
- Jean Marie High (1920-1993)
- Marvin Merritt High, Jr. (1921-1969)
- John Edgar High (1926-2003)
She was a 1907 graduate of Southwest Texas State Normal School (after that, it was Southwest Texas State Teachers' College and is now Texas State University) in San Marcus, Texas. She was teaching school in Cuero, Texas when she met a young entomology scientist, Marvin Merritte High who was working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Cuero on truck insect investigations. He was from Oktibbeha County, Mississippi and had recently graduated from Mississippi State College (at that time, a military school; now Mississippi State University).
After a courtship of several years, they were married the evening of Tuesday, 19 Oct 1915 in the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. They first lived in Brownsville, Texas then in Kingsville, Texas and finally in Gulfport, Mississippi as he was transferred to different stations within the U.S.D.A. doing research and field investigations to help find ways to lessen the risk and severity of insect damage to crops.
Minnie Ellen, or "Miss Minnie" as she was affectionately called later in life, never lost her love of family and of teaching and of her Texas ancestral roots. And, especially in later years, she developed a love of gardening, especially roses, day lillies and hydrangeas which she grew into magnificent gardens at their country home in the Landon community, about five miles north of Gulfport, Mississippi. Whenever family or friends would visit, she was always anxious to "divide for them," offering plants and cuttings for them to take home with them.
She and Merritte remained married until his death in 1961. Together, they had three children:
- Jean Marie High (1920-1993)
- Marvin Merritt High, Jr. (1921-1969)
- John Edgar High (1926-2003)
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