Greene County NcArchives Obituaries.....Speight, Mary 1826
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The Tarboro Southerner
               Died
     In Greene county, on the 5th instant
Mrs. Mary Speight, consort of Gen.
Jesse Speight.  Her companion had
been severely afflicted for several days,
and the attention with which she watch-
ed by his bed day and night, was prob-
ably one cause of her illness; and ere
her soothing hand could restore him to
health, she fell a victim to the prevailing
fever, which proved to be too obstinate
to yield to medical skill.  She has left
five small children, too young to be sen-
sible of their bereavement, and an affec-
tionate husband to mourn the loss of
one who always cheered him with her
tender affection, & c.

The Tarboro Southerner, September 19, 1826

Notes
Mary May Speight was the daughter of Col Benjamin May and Penelope Grimes of 
Pitt County.  Jesse Speight was the son of Capt Seth Speight and Elizabeth 
Vines, elected brigadier General of the NC Militia in 1823, served in The NC 
House of Commons 1822, NC Senate 1823-1828 (President of the Senate), US 
Congress 1829-1837, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Commons 1840, President 
of the Mississippi Senate 1843, US Senator from Mississippi 1845-1847.
The second wife of Jesse Speight was Louisa May, the sister of his first wife,.


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