Marie Louise Scudder

1854 - 1934  (79 years)

• Name	Marie Louise Scudder
  Birth	5 Dec 1854	Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	10 Jun 1934	Savannah, Chatham, Georgia   [1]
  Burial	Savannah, Chatham, Georgia
  Person ID	I839	Scudder
  Last Modified	10 Jul 2014

  
  

  Father	Colonel James Lockhart Scudder,   b. 23 Mar 1823, Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee d. 5 Dec 1882, Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Caroline Davidson,   b. 9 Sep 1833, Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee d. 20 Jul 1919, Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	Oct 1852	Shelbyville, Bedford, Tennessee   [1]
  Family ID	F376	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Bascom Myrick,   b. 23 May 1851, Liberty county, Georgia d. 8 Aug 1895, Americus, Sumter, Georgia (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	30 Mar 1875  [1]
  Children	1. Shelby Myrick,   b. 16 Jul 1878, Forsyth, Monroe, Georgia d. 21 Oct 1965, Savannah, Chatham, Georgia (Age 87 years)
  Family ID	F377	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Marie was the first woman in the South to own and edit a daily newspaper; Americus Times-Recorder, in 1895.

  
  

• Sources

  [S14] Genealogy of Descendants of Jacob Scudder T-2-3-7-Partial and Descendants of Peter Scudder T-2-3-11, Vol. XXVII, p. 22.