Maria Elizabeth Tilson

Maria Elizabeth was born in 1841 in ,Of Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Maria Elizabeth's father was Henry Tilson and her mother was Adeline. She had six brothers and two sisters, named Joseph, Henry Clay, William K., Jacob, Zacharias, Charles, Mary and Cynthia.  She was the second oldest of the nine children. She had four half-brothers and a half-sister, named Rufus, Hugh F., Lilburn B., Horace J. and Alice.