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NOTES FROM READERS:
"My
grandmother Susan (Loy) Walls' maternal grandfather Peter Cotton
died in 1900 and his last wife Mary Elizabeth
("Elizabeth") Cotton had to go to the poor farm,
according to an early Effingham Co. paper. Because she was old
at the time, I imagine she probably died there.
Incidentally,
the Poor Farm supervisor, Jacob Young (b. ca 1850 Germany), was
married to Sarah Caroline Bryant. Sarah's mother Eliza Jane
(Loy) Bryant was sister to John Henry Loy, my grandmother's
grandfather.
According
to Elma Bryant, wife of Sarah's nephew Bruce, the poorhouse land
was originally owned by Eliza Jane (Loy) Bryant's husband
William, a Bounty Land Warrant for his service in the Mexican
War. Eliza's uncle DeWitt Clinton Loy purchased some of this
land from William, which included that part where the Effingham
Co. Airport now is. DeWitt later sold some of it to the County
to establish the County Poor Farm."
Delores Rochelle Walls Loy_Genealogy@att.net
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