She was a cousin of General Pickett (not a niece as her son-in-law T.M. Wier's 1909 biographical sketch says) and a first cousin of Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (1841-1916), social reformer, author of the Alabama state song's lyrics, etc.
Her mother was a third-great-granddaughter of Roger Moore of the famous Orton Plantation near Brunswick, N.C., son of Gov. James Moore of South Carolina and Margaret Berringer.
Cited in her mother's obituary:
DEATH NOTICES FROM THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, NASHVILLE TENNESSEE, 1883-1884, (of Those Persons Born Up To and Including the Year 1822) By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith: January 13, 1883: Mrs. ANN ELIZA PICKETT daughter of Paoli and E. J. Ashe, born North Carolina, 1817; moved to Alabama; married Martin Pickett (died 1851), and lived in Wadesboro, North Carolina; widowed with four children; died October 23, 1882. Children: Mrs. Pleasant Tindel, Mobile, Alabama; Dr. Joseph Pickett, Hale Co.; Walter Pickett, California. Two brothers: Hon. Thomas S. Ashe and Dr. Edmond Ashe, Wadesboro. Three sisters: Mrs. Henry Tutwiler, Mrs. Carlos G. Smith and Miss Henrietta Ashe.
She was a cousin of General Pickett (not a niece as her son-in-law T.M. Wier's 1909 biographical sketch says) and a first cousin of Julia Strudwick Tutwiler (1841-1916), social reformer, author of the Alabama state song's lyrics, etc.
Her mother was a third-great-granddaughter of Roger Moore of the famous Orton Plantation near Brunswick, N.C., son of Gov. James Moore of South Carolina and Margaret Berringer.
Cited in her mother's obituary:
DEATH NOTICES FROM THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, NASHVILLE TENNESSEE, 1883-1884, (of Those Persons Born Up To and Including the Year 1822) By Jonathan Kennon Thompson Smith: January 13, 1883: Mrs. ANN ELIZA PICKETT daughter of Paoli and E. J. Ashe, born North Carolina, 1817; moved to Alabama; married Martin Pickett (died 1851), and lived in Wadesboro, North Carolina; widowed with four children; died October 23, 1882. Children: Mrs. Pleasant Tindel, Mobile, Alabama; Dr. Joseph Pickett, Hale Co.; Walter Pickett, California. Two brothers: Hon. Thomas S. Ashe and Dr. Edmond Ashe, Wadesboro. Three sisters: Mrs. Henry Tutwiler, Mrs. Carlos G. Smith and Miss Henrietta Ashe.
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