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Edith Eugenia <I>Meriwether</I> Washington Shehee

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Edith Eugenia Meriwether Washington Shehee

Birth
Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA
Death
7 Dec 1968 (aged 77)
Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, USA
Burial
Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama, USA GPS-Latitude: 32.4313049, Longitude: -85.7063019
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Edith Meriwether was a graduate of the M Street High School and Normal School No. 8 in Washington, D.C. She taught school in Durham, N.C. and Atlantic City, N.J. before her marriage. After the death of her first husband Ernest Davidson Washington, son of civil rights pioneer Booker Taliaferro Washington, she married Walter T. Shehee of the Tuskegee faculty.

Daughter of James Henry Meriwether and Mary Louise Robinson. Married first, Ernest Davidson Washington, 1 Sep 1914 in Washington, DC. He died in September, 1938.

Children:
1. Agnes Louise, b. 29 Oct 1919, d. 7 Jul 1999; m. James Lyle O'Neal.
2. Margaret Ernestine, b. 31 Aug 1921, d. 5 Sep 2009; m. first, Marshall Schuyler Cabiness, Sr; m. second, Paul Ingraham Clifford.
3. Edith Olivia, b. 5 Jun 1924, d. 6 Jan 2002.
4. Gloria Davidson, b. 1927; m. first, Dr. Theodore Lloyd Jackson; m. second, ___ Baskin.

Married second, Walter Thaddeus Shehee in 1959. He died 11 Feb 1963.
Edith Meriwether was a graduate of the M Street High School and Normal School No. 8 in Washington, D.C. She taught school in Durham, N.C. and Atlantic City, N.J. before her marriage. After the death of her first husband Ernest Davidson Washington, son of civil rights pioneer Booker Taliaferro Washington, she married Walter T. Shehee of the Tuskegee faculty.

Daughter of James Henry Meriwether and Mary Louise Robinson. Married first, Ernest Davidson Washington, 1 Sep 1914 in Washington, DC. He died in September, 1938.

Children:
1. Agnes Louise, b. 29 Oct 1919, d. 7 Jul 1999; m. James Lyle O'Neal.
2. Margaret Ernestine, b. 31 Aug 1921, d. 5 Sep 2009; m. first, Marshall Schuyler Cabiness, Sr; m. second, Paul Ingraham Clifford.
3. Edith Olivia, b. 5 Jun 1924, d. 6 Jan 2002.
4. Gloria Davidson, b. 1927; m. first, Dr. Theodore Lloyd Jackson; m. second, ___ Baskin.

Married second, Walter Thaddeus Shehee in 1959. He died 11 Feb 1963.


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