Mary Ledyard Oliver

b. 29 December 1895, d. 20 January 1981
  • Mary Ledyard Oliver was born on 29 December 1895 in Alabama.
  • 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 Mary Ledyard Oliver, Thomas Winfrey Oliver and Fannie Falconer Oliver.
  • The following appeared on 13 January 1920 in The Montgomery Advertiser: Montgomerians and friends throughout the State have received the following invitations from Mr. and Mrs. Oliver:
         "Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Winfrey Oliver request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Mary Ledyard to Mr. Andrew Jackson McLemore on Wednesday at 7 o'clock at St. Johns Episcopal church, Montgomery, Ala."
         Enclosed are the following cards: "At home after February first, Mitylene, Alabama."
  • She married Andrew Jackson McLemore, son of Moses McLemore and Annie Tanner, on 21 January 1920 in Montgomery, Alabama, at St. John's Episcopal Church.
  • 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.
  • Mary Ledyard Oliver became a widow at the 16 November 1953 death of her husband Andrew Jackson McLemore.
  • Mary Ledyard Oliver died on 20 January 1981 at age 85.
  • She was interred at Greenwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
  • Last Edited: 23 Feb 2012

Family: Andrew Jackson McLemore b. 14 December 1891, d. 16 November 1953