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... E1. Mary Mansfield, born in 1790, in Rutherford county, North Carolina. She was first graduate from the Salem Academy, Forsythe County, North Carolina. Her father sent to London, England, for a piano, and sent it to Salem for her especial benefit - it being the first piano in this part of the State. She was afterward educated in Raleigh, N.C., and became quite an accomplished lady ; was modest and unassuming ; was a true patriot, and when the War of 1861 came on she worked early and late making clothes for the soldiers. She was a member of the Methodist church. She died of heart disease in 1872, honored and beloved by all who knew her.
She married Hon. John McDowell, of Pleasant Garden, McDowell county, N.C. ...
