Onslow County NcArchives Photo Person.....Leacraft, Mary 
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Source:             Dorothy Littleton Pefley
Name:               Mary Leacraft
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Mary Leacraft b.abt 1832 d.13 Mar 1926
She was married to David Leacraft who was apparently much younger than she.  
The 1910 Census lists her as having been the mother of 17 children, of which 
seven were alive at the time of the census.  The census lists her occupation as 
doctor/midwife.

She had been a slave, owned by Wesley Edward Morton. Zeta Morton Littleton told 
her daughter, Dorothy, that when Dorothy was 9 months old, "Aunt Mary" had held 
her and commented that she had held 3 generations of Morton babies.  It is said 
that the family revered her.

Additional Comments:
When I was growning up, there was an abandoned wooden house with a tin roof 
which sat in the middle of a tobacco field. It wasn't on our property, which is 
now where the Swansboro High School & Queens Creek Middle Schools are located, 
but sat adjacent to it.  I was told that this was "Aunt Mary's" place.

I am told that in her later life, after the deaths of W.E. & Marinda Morton, 
she lived in their old home place until her death at which time the property 
was sold and the house subsequently burned.  This house would have been 
adjacent to the current Swansboro Middle School Annex.



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