Ellen Scott Marks
b. June 1880, d. 8 March 1975
- Father: Samuel Blackburn Marks b. 7 April 1844, d. 28 November 1921
- Mother: Laura Lewis James b. 18 January 1853
- Ellen Scott Marks was born in June 1880 in Alabama.
- The following appeared on 10 November 1898 in The Montgomery Advertiser: Miss Ellen Marks has been in New York the months of August and September. She is now in Philadelphia preparing for Bryn Mawr, which college she will enter in December. It is said that Bryn Mawr has the highest curriculum of any woman's college in the United States. Miss Marks will spend Christmas at home.
- Samuel Blackburn Marks and Laura Lewis James appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Montgomery, Alabama, at 305 Catoma Street and one male servant.. Other members of the household included Ellen Scott Marks, Charles Lewis Marks and Henry Churchill Marks.
- The following appeared on 19 September 1903 in The Montgomery Advertiser: Miss Ellen Marks, who has spent the past two years studying music in Germany, landed in Baltimore on Wednesday. Mrs. Marks went to Baltimore to meet her. They will reach Montgomery between the 20th and 25th of the month.
- She married Mahmoud Labib Moharrem Bey circa 30 November 1904 in Manhattan, New York County, New York.
- The following appeared on 2 December 1904 in The Montgomery Advertiser: (New York, Dec. 1) The first international marriage in the city hall in several years has just taken place, an alderman officiating. The bride was Miss Ellen Scott Marks, daughter of Samuel B. Marks, Sr., a wealthy Montgomery, Ala., planter. She met her husband recently in Munich. He is Mahmoud Labib Moharrem Bey, a physician.
The bridegroom does not speak English and the alderman could not use German or French, so it was necessary to perform the ceremony through an interpreter. The couple will reside in Munich. - Ellen Scott Marks died on 8 March 1975 at age 94 in Mobile County, Alabama.
- The following appeared on 10 March 1975 in The Mobile Register: Mrs. Ellen Marks Betty, mother of Dr. Samuel Marks Betty, economics professor at Spring Hill College, died Saturday afternoon at a local nursing home. Mrs. Betty, who was 94 at the time of her death, had lived in Mobile for the past 35 years.
She was a native of Montgomery and was the widow of Lewis Stafford Betty, also of Montgomery.
She was a member of the Mobile Chapter of the National Society of Colonical Dames in the State of Alabama and was well known in the Montgomery area as a concert pianist.
Survivors include her son, Dr. Betty; one brother, Henry Churchill Marks of Montgomery, two grandsons, two granddaughters, eight great-grandchildren and other relatives.
The Mass of Chrisitan Burial will be said Monday at 10 a.m. in St. Joseph's Chapel at Spring Hill College. Burial will be in Catholic Cemetery, Mobile.
The family has asked that memorials be made to Allen Memorial Home.
Belamy Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
- Last Edited: 27 Feb 2012