Fannie Ledyard

b. March 1874, d. 8 January 1959
  • Fannie Ledyard was born in March 1874 in Alabama.
  • She married Thomas Winfrey Oliver, son of Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Mary Eliza Brown, circa 1893.
  • Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Fannie Ledyard appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Walkers Beat, Montgomery County, Alabama. Other members of the household included Thomas Winfrey Oliver, Mary Ledyard Oliver and Fannie Falconer Oliver.
  • Fannie Ledyard became a widow at the 31 December 1922 death of her husband Thomas Winfrey Oliver.
  • The following appeared on 31 December 1922 in The Montgomery Advertiser: Thomas W. Oliver, well-known Montgomery county planter, and former representative in the state legislature from Montgomery county, died this morning at 2:15 o'clock at a local hospital. Mr. Oliver was 48 years old and had been ill for some time. He had been at the hospital for about two weeks.
         Mr. Oliver has lived for practically all his life at his large plantation on the Mt. Meigs road, about nine miles from Montgomery.
         Mr. Oliver was born in October, 1873, at Mitylene, Montgomery county. He was educated in the county and city schools of Montgomery and at the Alabama Polytecnic Institute. Mr. Oliver represented Montgomery county in the house of representatives during the 1919 session of the legislature.
         Surviving Mr. Oliver are his widow, Mrs. Fannie Leyard Oliver, and six children, Mrs. James Pittman, of Atlanta, Mrs. A. J. McLemore, of Montgomery, Misses Lucy and Laura Oliver and Winfrey and William Oliver.
         Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
  • Fannie Ledyard died on 8 January 1959 at age 84 in Montgomery, Alabama.
  • She was interred at Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Last Edited: 23 Feb 2012

Family: Thomas Winfrey Oliver b. October 1873, d. 31 December 1922