Sutton Family Governess?

Rigg's Cross Roads, Williamson Co.

Mary S. Sutton (1834-1912) was the daughter of a tobacco farmer, Jonas Sutton and his wife Charlotte Baucom. She and Nancy O. Hendrix (TSS 038) were schooled together when they were young. Mary wed David Ralston and, in the early years of their marriage, she taught school in Murfreesboro. They had four children.

Mary's cousin, Martha E. Sutton (TSS 153), worked an equally colorful sampler two years later.