Marcia Elbertina Holmes [Treadwell] Beardsley 
Marcia Elbertina Holmes married Bertie Dekalb Treadwell in October 24, 1866 in DeSoto County, MS and later marriedMoss White Beardsley on August 8, 1879.
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Marcia Elbertina Holmes [Treadwell] Beardsley Born: 1845, June 23 at Plum Point, MS Died: 1910, August 10 in Charlotte, NC - buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, TN Father: Finley Holmes Mother: Emily Goodwyn Raines Holmes Marcia Elbertina Holmes [Treadwell] Beardsley was the second daughter. She was born in 1845 at Valley Grove. At the age of 21 in 1866, she married Bertie Dekalb (B. D.) Treadwell. B. D. had come to Memphis from Mississippi to work in his brother's cotton business. Before meeting Marcia, he had served in the Memphis Light Dragoons - a Confederate cavalry unit that in 1861, with other units, became Company "A"of the 7th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment. In the next 8 years, Marcia and B. D. had four daughters, Ida Lee Treadwell Caldwell, Allison Treadwell Cowan, Corinne Treadwell [Snowden] Ragsdale, and Marcia Bertie Treadwell Muller. The daughters were raised in Memphis and had all married before Marcia died. As adults, they could be found in New England, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Florida. In the decade before his death in 1876, B. D. became a very successful cotton broker, leaving his family quite well off; and Marcia had become a prominent Memphis social figure. Marcia, with four young girls to care for, remarried in 1879 to a constructive engineer, who was especially proficient in railroad construction and traveled widely for his job. He was Moss White Beardsley, from Ohio, and 7 years older than Marcia. Like Marcia, it was his second marriage. Marcia and Moss had two children, a son, Walter Holmes Beardsley, and a daughter, Lydia Maude Beardsley Gaines (name changed from Gans). In the 1880 census, the family was in Memphis. Sometime around 1902, Walter and Maude moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, and Marcia and Moss joined them 4 years later. There Marcia became active in Charlotte's social scene, but after a few years she suffered a stroke and was confined to a wheelchair. Marcia died in August of 1910, and her remains were sent to Memphis for burial in Elmwood Cemetery in the adjacent plot of her first husband. Her plot is adjacent to the burial site for her parents, Finley and Emily G. Holmes, and other members of the Holmes family. Moss Beardsley lived another 14 years and passed away in Charlotte in 1924. Of Marcia's six children, with Treadwell and with Beardsley, only one daughter, Corinne Treadwell, produced children.
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First Husband:
Bertie Dekalb Treadwell Born: 1840, August 28 in Marshall County MS Died: 1876, May 26 - buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis, TN Father: Timmons L. Treadwell (b. 1800, d. 1870 - Find A Grave Memorial #41184218) Mother: Eliza (Allison) Treadwell (b. 1804, d. 1848 - Find A Grave Memorial #41184173) Siblings: Allison Carruth Treadwell l (b. ~1826 in NC), William Loundes Treadwelll (b. ~1828 in NC), Eliza Julian Treadwelll (b. ~1829 in NC), Robert Alexander Treadwell (b. ~1831 in NC), Arthur Barlow Treadwell (b. ~1833 in NC), Mary Adoline Treadwell Smith (b. ~1835 in MS, d. 1872), Amelia A. Frances Treadwell (b. ~1838 in MS), Frances Marion Treadwell (b. ~1842 in MS), Eliza Arethusa Treadwell (b. ~1844 in MS), A. C. Treadwell
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Children By B. D. Treadwell (and Marcia Elbertina Holmes)
Child 1:
Allison Goodwyn Treadwell CowanBorn: 1867, 6 Aug in TN Died: 1970, 22 Feb in Provincetown, MA Spouse: Charles Clifton Cowan (b. 1859 in MS, d. 1935 in NY) Children: no children Of NYC
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Child 2:
Ida Lee Treadwell Caldwell Born: 1869, 1 Jul in TN Died: 1905, 17 Jun in Bainbridge, GA - buried in Birmingham, AL Spouse: Charles Henry Caldwell (b. 1864 in AL, d. 1914 in Philadelphia, PA - buried in Birmingham, AL - Find A Grave Memorial #62129761) Children: no children Of Bainbridge, GA
From Candler, A. D. and Evans, C. A. (Eds.). (1906). Georgia: Comprising sketches of counties, towns, events, institutions, and persons, arranged in cyclopedic form. Vol 1. Atlanta: State Historical Association. pp. 288-289: |
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Child 3:
Corinne Treadwell [Snowden] Ragsdale Born: 1872, 27 Feb in TN Died: 1948, 26 May in Coral Gables, FL - buried Woodlawn Park Mausoleum, Miami, FL Spouse: 1st: Frank E. Snowden (b. 1870 in TN), 2nd: William McMurray Ragsdale (b. 1863, d. 1950 in FL) Children: by Snowden: Corinne Treadwell Snowden Williams (b. 1891, d. 30 Jan 1986 in VT); by Ragsdale: Charles Clifton Cowan Ragsdale (b. 17 Jan 1899, d. 13 Dec 1981), Marcia Treadwell Ragsdale [Pawley] Carlton (b. 3 May 1901, d. 28 Mar 1981 in FL)
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Child 4:
Marcia Bertie (Doll Baby) Treadwell Muller Born: 1874, 14 Sep in TN Died: 1965, 19 Feb in Provincetown, MA Spouse: Charles Edward Muller Children: no children
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Second Husband:
Moss White Beardsley Born: 1838, 19 May in Port Clinton, Ottawa County OH Died: 1924 in Charlotte, NC - buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Sandusky County OH Father: Asher Beardsley (b. 1808 in NY, d. 1846 in OH - Find A Grave Memorial # 153656497) Mother: Lydia Hollison [Beardsley] Beardsley Dollison (b. 1819 in CN, d. 1896 in OH - Find A Grave Memorial # 153656768) First wife: Mary Elizabeth Smith (b. 1843, d. 1874), m. 1869 - children by Mary: Maggie Maud Beardsley (b. 1871, d. 1876), Lydia Mabel Beardsley (b. 1872, d. 1873), Walter White Beardsley (b. 1874, d. 1875) Occupation: Constructive engineer and miner - especially proficient in railroad construction.
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Children: by Moss W. Beardsley (and Marcia Elbertina Holmes) |
Child 5:
Walter Holmes BeardsleyBorn: 1879, 12 April in Shelby County TN Died: 1936, 15 April in Charlotte, NC - buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, NC Spouse: Leila Nichols Beardsley (b. 1894 in Earl, NC; d. 1984 in Charlotte, NC - buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, NC - Find A Grave Memorial #156947140) Children: no children
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Child 6:
Lydia Maude Beardsley Gaines (Gans) Born: 1880, 21 Oct in TN Died: 1953, 27 May in San Mateo, CA - buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY Spouse: Fredrick Hazlehurst Gaines (Gans) (b. ~1870 in NY, d. 1935 - Find A Grave Memorial #102619336) Children: no children
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Sources:
Anita Wallace Pawley's research relating to Marcia Elbertina Holmes Treadwell Beardsley
United States Federal Census data
Family Records, unpublished records of the Holmes family - correspondence, Bibles, interviews, etc.
Newspaper accounts of weddings and deaths, and other public documents for wills, land transfers, etc.
Beasley, Irene. (1973). AS I REMEMBER THEM ---. (Memoirs of the Holmes' family - printed for family distribution)
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