Weissinger, Eliza Mary Bond, 1805-1875.
Mary Williams Burke was born in 1782, in Warren County, N.C., to Mary Freeman and Thomas Burke. She taught school in Hillsborough, N.C,, starting in 1810. In 1834, she moved with her niece, Eliza Mary Bond Johnston, to Greensboro, Ala. Burke and her niece later moved to Marion, Ala., where she continued teaching and tutoring until her death in 1869. She never married.
George Mulholland Johnston was born in 1800. Johnston was a merchant in Hillsborough with business connections throughout the state. In 1831 or 1832, he married Eliza Mary Bond. In August 1834, with his wife and her aunt, Mary Williams Burke, he moved to Greensboro, Ala., where he died in September.
Eliza Mary Bond was born to Frances Doherty and William Bond, in 1805. She attended school in Fayetteville, N.C., in 1821; otherwise, she spent most of her youth in Hillsborough. She moved to Greensboro, Ala., in 1834. Following the death of her husband, she moved with her son, George Doherty Johnston, and her aunt, Mary Burke, to Marion, Ala., where she later married Leonard Weissinger. Eliza Mary Bond Johnston Weissinger died in 1875.
(Adapted from a note in Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, William S. Powell, editor.)
From the guide to the Eliza Mary Bond Weissinger Papers, 1785-1868, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)
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creatorOf | Weissinger, Eliza Mary Bond, 1805-1875. Eliza Mary Bond Weissinger papers, 1785-1868 [manuscript]. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
creatorOf | Eliza Mary Bond Weissinger Papers, 1785-1868 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection |
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Birth 1805
Death 1875