Mary Venable

Mary was born in 1854 in ,Hawkins, Tennessee.¹   Mary's father was Daniel Venable and her mother was Mary Lawson.  Her maternal grandparents were Martin Lawson and Nancy. She had six brothers and seven sisters, named John, William, George, James, Joseph, Andrew, Zora, Nancy, Catherine, Priscilla, Charity, Martha and Mary Margaret.  She was the sixth youngest of the fourteen children.