More than likely this was taken at the homestead of my great-great-grandparents along Coopers Creek near current day Suches, Union County, Georgia. This is my great-great-grandmother, Lavina Vina Millsaps Wallace1 Harkins2. She was married first to Wade Wallace who died on his way home on leave during the Civil War. He was going to visit Lavina and his new baby daughter, Mary Jane. A few years after his death, Lavina remarried to the widower, Benjamin Austin Harkins (my gg-grandfather) whose wife had died Christmas Day of 1863. That winter of 1864, he got his family together and on his way to Indiana to wait out the end of the Civil War. On his way through TN he somehow met and married Lavina (a whirlwind romance???) and she and Mary Jane continued with him to IN until after the war. After the war they returned to Union County, GA and resettled on Benjamins land...apparently in a different spot than where he lived with his first wife. His homestead was in a corner where Burnette Creek intersects with Coopers Creek. When Benjamin died in 1901, he was buried on a knoll overlooking his homestead. Lavina passed away in 1905 and is buried at the old Spriggs Chapel Cemetery...where I placed flowers on her grave last Saturday.
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 17:06:30 +0000