Mary Ellis Primrose

(1863-1949)

At a Glance

After the death of her mother, Mary was taken to be raised by her paternal aunt, Mary Anne Primrose Noble.

Story

Mary (Min or Minnie) Ellis Primrose (11 October 1863-7 July 1949) married Thomas Wiley Winston (25 February 1861-16 July 1934) on December 18, 1886. Mary's mother died when she was a teenager and she was reared by her aunt, Mary Anne (or Ann) Primrose Noble (1826-1916) who married Albert Morris Noble (1823-1903). Mary and Thomas were the parents of three daughters. The researcher could find the name of only one of their children, Julia Primrose Winston (27 July 1888-6 December 1962), who married Marion C. Taylor (11 June 1886-18 July 1950). Mary, her husband Thomas, and her daughter Julia and her husband Marion are buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Oxford, Granville County, NC.

Biographical Data

Mary was called Min.
She was also called Minnie.

Important Dates

Mary Ellis Primrose was born on October 11, 1863, in New Bern, NC. She died on July 7, 1949.

Relatives

• Parents: Cicero Stevens Primrose (1831-1867) [1] and Mary Snead Chapman (1835-1882)  [1].
• Paternal grandparents: Robert Stuart Primrose (1782-1856) and Anne Stephens (1802-1863).
• Maternal grandparents: Samuel Edward Chapman (1807-1862) and Elizabeth Snead (1811-1868).
• Sibling: one sister, Caroline Primrose (b. 1858).
• Uncle: Robert Stuart Primrose Jr (1828-1870).
• Aunts: Catharine Chapman (1834-1890) , Mary Anne Primrose (1826-1916)  [1] and Sarah Sitgreaves Attmore (1833-1882) . Mary Anne reared her orphaned niece, Mary Ellis Primrose daughter of her late brother Cicero Stevens Primrose and fellow Burwell student Mary Snead Chapman  [1].
• Cousins: Robert Stuart Primrose III and Marcus Cicero Stephens Noble.

References

1. Mary Claire Engstrom. The Book of Burwell Students: Lives of Educated Women in the Antebellum South. (Hillsborough: Hillsborough Historic Commission, 2007).