Daughter of Joseph & Myrah (Bandy) Sherrill. Married Ephraim A. Chesser on 10 DEC 1857 in Newton (Catawba County), NC. After her husband Ephraim returned home from serving in the Confederate Army during the War Between the States, the family migrated to Hawkins County, TN and began a new life. She became casualty to the raging 1899 Influenza or Yellow Fever epidemics of Hawkins County, TN not even a month follwing the death of her husband and youngest son who also died as a result of the same epidemic. Her original gravestone was replaced circa 1930 by Hugh & Violet (Chesser) Perkey and the replacement gravestone was inscribed with the incorrect exact day and year of death as proven by her obituary and the Family Bible of her son, Leander Blonsful Chesser.
HOPEWELL PRIMATIVE BAPTIST CHURCH OBITUARY, 22 SEP 1899: "SISTER MAHALA CHESSER - Was born May 15 1837. Died Sept. 22nd, 1899. She professed faith in Christ at the close of the Civil War, and was received into the church fellowship, in Lincoln County, NC and then moved to Hawkins Co. Tenn and was received into the fellowship of the church, at Hopewell, where she remained a member till death."
HOPEWELL PRIMATIVE BAPTIST CHURCH OBITUARY, 22 SEP 1899: "SISTER MAHALA CHESSER - Was born May 15 1837. Died Sept. 22nd, 1899. She professed faith in Christ at the close of the Civil War, and was received into the church fellowship, in Lincoln County, NC and then moved to Hawkins Co. Tenn and was received into the fellowship of the church, at Hopewell, where she remained a member till death."
Daughter of Joseph & Myrah (Bandy) Sherrill. Married Ephraim A. Chesser on 10 DEC 1857 in Newton (Catawba County), NC. After her husband Ephraim returned home from serving in the Confederate Army during the War Between the States, the family migrated to Hawkins County, TN and began a new life. She became casualty to the raging 1899 Influenza or Yellow Fever epidemics of Hawkins County, TN not even a month follwing the death of her husband and youngest son who also died as a result of the same epidemic. Her original gravestone was replaced circa 1930 by Hugh & Violet (Chesser) Perkey and the replacement gravestone was inscribed with the incorrect exact day and year of death as proven by her obituary and the Family Bible of her son, Leander Blonsful Chesser.
HOPEWELL PRIMATIVE BAPTIST CHURCH OBITUARY, 22 SEP 1899: "SISTER MAHALA CHESSER - Was born May 15 1837. Died Sept. 22nd, 1899. She professed faith in Christ at the close of the Civil War, and was received into the church fellowship, in Lincoln County, NC and then moved to Hawkins Co. Tenn and was received into the fellowship of the church, at Hopewell, where she remained a member till death."
HOPEWELL PRIMATIVE BAPTIST CHURCH OBITUARY, 22 SEP 1899: "SISTER MAHALA CHESSER - Was born May 15 1837. Died Sept. 22nd, 1899. She professed faith in Christ at the close of the Civil War, and was received into the church fellowship, in Lincoln County, NC and then moved to Hawkins Co. Tenn and was received into the fellowship of the church, at Hopewell, where she remained a member till death."
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