MARION COUNTY BIOGRAPHIES
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ORMES,
Mary Elizabeth (Bettie)
Bettie
Ormes family left Alabama in 1854 on a wagon train. She was the
oldest child, and only daughter. Her dad, Jeremiah Brisco ORME
didn't live to complete the journey west. Widow Naoma ORMES
and her children spent a couple of years in Mississippi, before
continuing on to Texas c.1856. They settled in Marion
county at first. Tragedy struck again, and Bettie's step-father
died. The family was probably still in mouring when Eli McCoy, a
young man from Virginia, arrived in Texas. Noama and the
children were in Harrison County by the time Eli and Mary
Elizabeth (Bettie) married. Eli had a homestead, was
a skilled blacksmith and horsetrainer, and was marrying the lady
he loved. In normal times, they could have looked forward to
seasons together planting and harvesting, and raising children.But
1862 was not normal times. Men were already marching off to war
when they married. They had three short months together before he
enlisted in the Confederate Army. She was pregnant
with Eli Jr. when he left. It is doubtful that Eli ever saw the
baby. He died in the Confederate Hospital in Little Rock a few
days after their first anniversary.
(Taken from Texas Legacy, courtesy of Jimmie F Chatham).
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