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- Daughter of William Avery and Harriet Espey, both born Georgia. Married Capt. Thomas Smith Garrison on June 10, 1860.
After their marriage Capt. T. S. and Sarah Elizabeth Garrison moved to Caledonia. After the town of Timpson was established, they moved there and remained there for the rest of her life. She was a charter member of the Timpson Methodist Church.
Mrs. Garrison had been in failing health for some time before her death on November 18, 1918, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Sanford, at Caledonia.
Source:
Obituary, The Champion, November 20, 1918, reprinted in Mildred Cariker Pinkston, Obituaries of Early Pioneers, Shelby County, Texas, Center: Center Printing Co., 1983, I:57
(bio provided by Sheron Smith-Savage) [1]
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