Person:George Lavender (3)

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George Lavender
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Name George Lavender
Gender Male
Birth? 1785 Botetourt County, Virginia
Marriage 2 May 1807 Botetourt County, Virginiato Elizabeth Shoemaker
Death? 1856 Hardin County, Illinois

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George Lavender... Born 1785 in Botetourt County, Virginia, married Elizabeth Shewmaker on 2 MAY 1807 in Virginia, died 1856 in Hardin County, Illinois.
Children: Dehelia (did not marry), Fannie (married John Holt), Malinda (married Humphrey Moore), Mahalia (married Benjamin Franklin Jackson), Harriet (married John Brinkley), Louis (born 1814, married Indiana Whiteside in 1849, died 1913), Elizabeth Ann (married William Hines Hicks)
The Lavender Cemetery in Hardin County, Illinois, was donated land from the Lavender family. It is located on a hill behind where the old farm house was built, and overlooked the site of the house, buildings, pasture and farm land. Louis Lavender inherited the land that once belonged to his father, George, in the 1850's. The land remained in the family until 1979.
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