102. Elvira M. Hamby was born on Jun 25 1853. She died on Jan 5 1911.
She was married to George
M. Fortune (son of Fletcher Fortune and
Virginia Jane Allison). The 1860 Buncombe County Census has the following
listing: Fortune, Fletcher 60; Jane 57; Mary 21; Ben. 19; Jane 15; George 14;
Albertus 12. George M. Fortune was born on Dec 19
1843 in Buncombe County, NC. He appeared on the census in 1880 in Buncombe County,
NC. #122) Fortune, George M. 36; Elvira M. 25; Charles M. 7; James E. 2; Georgia
E. 3/12; and John Boyd 57. He died on Oct 5 1933. He was buried in Tabernacle
Methodist Church Cemetery, Buncombe County, NC. Elvira M. Hamby and George M.
Fortune had the following children:
+376 i.
Pearl Fortune.
+377 ii.
Charles M. Fortune.
378 iii.
James E. Fortune was born about 1878.
+379 iv.
Georgia Fortune.
+380 v.
Mary Ella Fortune.
381 vi.
Emory Fortune. Emory died at age 21. He never married.
+382 vii.
William Fortune.
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