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William Ferguson & Augusta "Gusta" Catherine Slayton
1867 Marriage License

Thanks to Jimmie Chatham for this wonderful information.

Effa Lee Fergusson Padgett's parents were married in Marion County, Texas. Her mother, Catherine Augusta "Gusta" Slayton, was the daughter of Republic of Texas citizen, cotton planter, surveyor Sanford G. Slayton and his wife, Mary Annabell Clark Slayton. Her father, William Jefferson Fergusson, settled in Jefferson after serving with the Confederate Calvary with a regiment from Richmond Virginia. Wm. J. Fergusson was the jailer in Jefferson during the incarceration of Abe Rothschild during the Diamond Bessie Murder Trials.


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