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Laverty, Mahala V.

Personal Information
Last Name Laverty
First Name Mahala
Middle Name V.
Maiden Name Cox
Death Date 8/15/1854
Birth Date 8/12/1818
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Cemetery Old Mooresville Cemetery
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Spouse 1) John Pope; 2) Rev. John Laverty
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Other Age 36 years and 3 days. Was the widow of John Pope (who is also buried in this cemetery), with whom she had two sons. She next married Rev. John Laverty, on July 3, 1845, with whom she had Erasmus, Melissa, and Elvira (who are all buried in this cemetery) and 2 other daughters, Margaret and Mary. Rev. John Laverty was State Representative in 1851, and the first editor of the Mooresville Chronicle. [From the Morgan Co. Gazette for July 30, 1857: "Ordered by the Court, the sale of property belonging to the minor heirs of Mahala V. Laverty, dec., in Mooresville, John W. Thompson, Guardian."]
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