Daughter of Henry H. Bostwick and Ann Hickson Bostwick, married Asa Thomas May July 10, 1834 in Lowndes County, Alabama. They had at least six children: William Henry May (Sr.); Eugenia May; Joseph Alanson May; Selena McClarey May; Sarah Elizabeth May; and Mary Lafayette May.
As told by her granddaughter, Francis Kathleen Robinson Garrett:
"Buried in the Benton, Alabama Cemetary near the old Baptist Church, of which she was a member.
Mary Caroline Bostwick-May, was, as we her grandchildren remember her, calm, placid, most of the time, with lots of "goodies" always on hand, and stories of the family which seemed like a book to us. We were always thrilled by her "stories." To "go to Grandma's" was the reward to which we looked forward to all day, even though we did not live six blocks away from her home. Grandma's flowers were the prettiest, her vegetable garden the best in the town of Benton, Alabama. There was always something intensley interesting going on at Grandma's. I was at her feet all the time, out of the house as well as inside. She was always busy, but not too busy to ignore our thirsty minds. She told tales of the Indians as they came from South Carolina when she was a very young girl. Then she married before 16 years on July 10, 1834, to the son of a Baptist Minister, Asa Thomas May, whose father founded the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in 1819, the year she was born, and near where she lived except the short stay in Texas, Polk County, where my mother was born on June 2, 1849 and where her husband died Feb 22, 1850. She came back to Benton, Alabama where she was the tailor of that part of the county until her death, Mar. 4, 1885. With the help of her brother, John H. Bostwick, the renting of her slaves and the inborn industry, she raised and educated five children, two sons and three daughters, all outlived her but Mother, Mary L. May-Robinson. She used to tell us how she felt so shy when her husband was always telling that she was the prettiest of all the women in Lowndes County. She then considered him much older than she was, as he was a minister's son, and early had to work.
She was always happy and gay, singing and laughing at our play. Like the motto on the Bostwick Arms, "Semper Presto Servere," Always Ready to Serve.
Grandma's hair was dark, her eyes light, I think blue. Not a gray hair showing at her death, age 66. She died of pneumonia two years after the death of my mother, who as "Little Sister" was known as the best alto in all Lowndes County."
As told by her granddaughter, Francis Kathleen Robinson Garrett:
"Buried in the Benton, Alabama Cemetary near the old Baptist Church, of which she was a member.
Mary Caroline Bostwick-May, was, as we her grandchildren remember her, calm, placid, most of the time, with lots of "goodies" always on hand, and stories of the family which seemed like a book to us. We were always thrilled by her "stories." To "go to Grandma's" was the reward to which we looked forward to all day, even though we did not live six blocks away from her home. Grandma's flowers were the prettiest, her vegetable garden the best in the town of Benton, Alabama. There was always something intensley interesting going on at Grandma's. I was at her feet all the time, out of the house as well as inside. She was always busy, but not too busy to ignore our thirsty minds. She told tales of the Indians as they came from South Carolina when she was a very young girl. Then she married before 16 years on July 10, 1834, to the son of a Baptist Minister, Asa Thomas May, whose father founded the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in 1819, the year she was born, and near where she lived except the short stay in Texas, Polk County, where my mother was born on June 2, 1849 and where her husband died Feb 22, 1850. She came back to Benton, Alabama where she was the tailor of that part of the county until her death, Mar. 4, 1885. With the help of her brother, John H. Bostwick, the renting of her slaves and the inborn industry, she raised and educated five children, two sons and three daughters, all outlived her but Mother, Mary L. May-Robinson. She used to tell us how she felt so shy when her husband was always telling that she was the prettiest of all the women in Lowndes County. She then considered him much older than she was, as he was a minister's son, and early had to work.
She was always happy and gay, singing and laughing at our play. Like the motto on the Bostwick Arms, "Semper Presto Servere," Always Ready to Serve.
Grandma's hair was dark, her eyes light, I think blue. Not a gray hair showing at her death, age 66. She died of pneumonia two years after the death of my mother, who as "Little Sister" was known as the best alto in all Lowndes County."
Daughter of Henry H. Bostwick and Ann Hickson Bostwick, married Asa Thomas May July 10, 1834 in Lowndes County, Alabama. They had at least six children: William Henry May (Sr.); Eugenia May; Joseph Alanson May; Selena McClarey May; Sarah Elizabeth May; and Mary Lafayette May.
As told by her granddaughter, Francis Kathleen Robinson Garrett:
"Buried in the Benton, Alabama Cemetary near the old Baptist Church, of which she was a member.
Mary Caroline Bostwick-May, was, as we her grandchildren remember her, calm, placid, most of the time, with lots of "goodies" always on hand, and stories of the family which seemed like a book to us. We were always thrilled by her "stories." To "go to Grandma's" was the reward to which we looked forward to all day, even though we did not live six blocks away from her home. Grandma's flowers were the prettiest, her vegetable garden the best in the town of Benton, Alabama. There was always something intensley interesting going on at Grandma's. I was at her feet all the time, out of the house as well as inside. She was always busy, but not too busy to ignore our thirsty minds. She told tales of the Indians as they came from South Carolina when she was a very young girl. Then she married before 16 years on July 10, 1834, to the son of a Baptist Minister, Asa Thomas May, whose father founded the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in 1819, the year she was born, and near where she lived except the short stay in Texas, Polk County, where my mother was born on June 2, 1849 and where her husband died Feb 22, 1850. She came back to Benton, Alabama where she was the tailor of that part of the county until her death, Mar. 4, 1885. With the help of her brother, John H. Bostwick, the renting of her slaves and the inborn industry, she raised and educated five children, two sons and three daughters, all outlived her but Mother, Mary L. May-Robinson. She used to tell us how she felt so shy when her husband was always telling that she was the prettiest of all the women in Lowndes County. She then considered him much older than she was, as he was a minister's son, and early had to work.
She was always happy and gay, singing and laughing at our play. Like the motto on the Bostwick Arms, "Semper Presto Servere," Always Ready to Serve.
Grandma's hair was dark, her eyes light, I think blue. Not a gray hair showing at her death, age 66. She died of pneumonia two years after the death of my mother, who as "Little Sister" was known as the best alto in all Lowndes County."
As told by her granddaughter, Francis Kathleen Robinson Garrett:
"Buried in the Benton, Alabama Cemetary near the old Baptist Church, of which she was a member.
Mary Caroline Bostwick-May, was, as we her grandchildren remember her, calm, placid, most of the time, with lots of "goodies" always on hand, and stories of the family which seemed like a book to us. We were always thrilled by her "stories." To "go to Grandma's" was the reward to which we looked forward to all day, even though we did not live six blocks away from her home. Grandma's flowers were the prettiest, her vegetable garden the best in the town of Benton, Alabama. There was always something intensley interesting going on at Grandma's. I was at her feet all the time, out of the house as well as inside. She was always busy, but not too busy to ignore our thirsty minds. She told tales of the Indians as they came from South Carolina when she was a very young girl. Then she married before 16 years on July 10, 1834, to the son of a Baptist Minister, Asa Thomas May, whose father founded the Mt. Gilead Baptist Church in 1819, the year she was born, and near where she lived except the short stay in Texas, Polk County, where my mother was born on June 2, 1849 and where her husband died Feb 22, 1850. She came back to Benton, Alabama where she was the tailor of that part of the county until her death, Mar. 4, 1885. With the help of her brother, John H. Bostwick, the renting of her slaves and the inborn industry, she raised and educated five children, two sons and three daughters, all outlived her but Mother, Mary L. May-Robinson. She used to tell us how she felt so shy when her husband was always telling that she was the prettiest of all the women in Lowndes County. She then considered him much older than she was, as he was a minister's son, and early had to work.
She was always happy and gay, singing and laughing at our play. Like the motto on the Bostwick Arms, "Semper Presto Servere," Always Ready to Serve.
Grandma's hair was dark, her eyes light, I think blue. Not a gray hair showing at her death, age 66. She died of pneumonia two years after the death of my mother, who as "Little Sister" was known as the best alto in all Lowndes County."
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