Mattie Sue Webb Blackwell

   Cause of her death was Coronary Insufficency (sudden).

  General Notes:

Mattie Sue was born on Thanksgiving Day, 1886.

DAR membership # 336430 (resigned), Lt. John Webb-Continental Line.

  Medical Notes:

Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014
Name: Mattie Sue Webb Blackwell Garrett
Residence: 325 Linden Drive, Danville, VA
Occupation: Housewife
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age at Death: 85
Birth Date: 25 Nov 1886 in Vance Co., N. C.
Death Date: 22 Jul 1972
Death Place: Danville, Virginia
Burial: Highland Cemetery, Danville, VA
Registration Date: 1 Aug 1972
Father: John Pomfret Blackwell
Mother: Sally Green Wortham
Spouse: Albert Earle Garrett Sr
Military Status: none
Informant: A. E. Garrett Jr. (son)

Mattie married Albert Earle Garrett Sr., son of Joseph Walton Garrett Sr. and Caledonia (Callie) Coleman, on 17 Jun 1908 in Mt. Airy, Surry Co., NC. (Albert Earle Garrett Sr. was born on 31 Jan 1882 on the Farm 2 Miles From Spray (Eden) Near Madison, N.C, died on 17 Dec 1979 in 325 Linden Dr. Danville City, VA and was buried in Highland Cemetery, Danville, VA.) The cause of his death was Bronchial Pneumonia.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage License: First married without telling anyone, 15 May 1905, Salem, Roanoke Co., VA.

  Marriage Notes:

The actual original marriage between Early and Mattie Sue was May 15, 1905 in Salem, Roanoke County, Va. They kept it a secret and had a formal public marriage in 1908. The 1905 marriage license, found in the Roanoke County Court House in Salem, lists her age as 21 and his as 23. She is actually 18 at the time and they were both living and working in Rockingham Co., N.C. One possible reason for coming to Salem was that Earle Garrett had a cousin, James Price Garrett, and family living there. They were married by H. M. Canter, Minister of the Methodist Church. [Harry Marvin Canter was born in February 3, 1875 in Maryland and a well traveled Methodist Minister. He was married to Margaret Jones Canter.]