Mary Ann Elizabeth Whitaker McClellan Herron

Mary Ann Herron was the oldest child of Andrew Herron and Lydia Warren. She was born in Mr. Pleasant., TN on 24 Nov 1832. (1) but moved to MS when very young. Her mother, Lydia, died in Marshall Co., MS when she was about 12 and her father remarried the widow, Mary Whitehead, when Mary Ann was about 13. Sometime after her father's second marriage they moved to Seguin, TX. By the time was was 18 she was married to Richard John Coorpender since the 1850 census shows that they were married. According to oral history, they may have married 24 Dec 1848 in Holmes, MS.
In late 1865 she and her husband were sureties for her brother, P. L. Herron who was the administrator for the estate of their father Andrew Herron, Jr. (3). She had 9 children, with the last being born about 1873. Her husband, Richard John Coorpender, died sometime before 1888. She died 16 Jan 1907 in Seguin, Guadalupe, TX. (1)

Sources

(1) Obituary of Mary Ann Herron
Seguin Enterprise 18 Jun 1907

Deep sympathies felt by all in Seguin and indeed by all who know Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Herron in the loss of their son Andrew Herron who was killed in a railroad accident in New Mexico last Saturday, and at same time another blow fell when Mrs. M. A. Coorpender, Squire Herron's sister, died Wednesday night. Two loved one were laid to rest together. Andrew Herron was forty years and and leaves a wife and three children. Mrs. M, A. Coorpender was 54 years old and was born at Mr. Pleasant, Tenn. She married the late Dick Coorpender and three children survive them, Mrs. Annie and Carried Young and June Coorpender.
Andrew Herron was born in Seguin forty years ago. He married Miss Ella La Grange of Wilson County, who with three children survive him.
Words cannot express the deep sympathy, caused by this double crown of sorrow, with the loved ones they leave behind.

(2) 1850 census Hinds, Mississippi
R J Coorpender, Merchant, aged 30 born in NC
Ann Coorpender, aged 18, born in Tenn

(3) Guadalupe County, TX Deed
FHL film 1035054

(4) There is no record of his death. He was alive in the 1880 census. In the 1888 tax list Ann was listed without him.
Guadalupe County Texas 1888 Tax lists FHL film 2282236 image 32

Mary Ann Elizabeth Herron Coorpender with her granddaughter, Anna Coorpender

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Molly McKnight Herron and Mary Ann Herron Coorpender, April 1902 at the wedding of Mollie's son.

Mary Ann Herron widow of Whitaker McClellan