Her name is sometimes listed as "Nina". According to a newspaper article on her death (uploaded as photo) headlined "A Sad Death" she died at age 16 years, 7 months, and 16 days. The article mentions her death occurring near Concord church, in the third district. It describes her on her deathbed saying "I see my pa (he died five years past) and I will soon be with him" and that she sees heaven. She begged her brother and sisters to tenderly care for her mother, whom she knew would be sad and lonely when she was gone.
Newspaper article donated from the collection of Jennie Bell Johnson McDonald, and collected by family researcher Dorothy Taylor Covington, a great-granddaughter of James Ezell and Elizabeth Emily White, Mina's parents.
Newspaper article donated from the collection of Jennie Bell Johnson McDonald, and collected by family researcher Dorothy Taylor Covington, a great-granddaughter of James Ezell and Elizabeth Emily White, Mina's parents.
Her name is sometimes listed as "Nina". According to a newspaper article on her death (uploaded as photo) headlined "A Sad Death" she died at age 16 years, 7 months, and 16 days. The article mentions her death occurring near Concord church, in the third district. It describes her on her deathbed saying "I see my pa (he died five years past) and I will soon be with him" and that she sees heaven. She begged her brother and sisters to tenderly care for her mother, whom she knew would be sad and lonely when she was gone.
Newspaper article donated from the collection of Jennie Bell Johnson McDonald, and collected by family researcher Dorothy Taylor Covington, a great-granddaughter of James Ezell and Elizabeth Emily White, Mina's parents.
Newspaper article donated from the collection of Jennie Bell Johnson McDonald, and collected by family researcher Dorothy Taylor Covington, a great-granddaughter of James Ezell and Elizabeth Emily White, Mina's parents.
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