Bowden Joyce, Founding Mothers

Talllulah was a guest at the Albany Hotel in Hastings, East Sussex, England, when she died 4 August 1928. 32 She was buried 7 August 1928 in the churchyard of A LL S AINTS C HURCH , H ERSTMONCEUX . Rosslyn Bruce, D.D., All Saints rector, performed the burial ceremony. 33 The death certificate and burial record spelled Tallulah’s maiden name Monceaux; the grave marker, Mounceaux. To memorialize her family at the church where her mother Tallulah was buried, Marion Johnston McCants commissioned a stained-glass window, which was designed, built and installed in the 1930s. 34 Photo: Caroline Rebecca (Redmond) Mounces’s daughter, Tallulah Rebecca (Mounce) McCants Photo by author William Calhoun Mounce was born and died in the same year, 1862, and in same place, Greenwood. 35 Clarence Ramsey Mounce, the fifth child, in 1907, lived in Richmond County, Georgia, where Tallula E. Mounce sued him for divorce. 36 They were married in 1884 in that county. 37 Clarence did not appear in any other records. When and where he died and was buried are not known. Tallulah or Tallula, his 32 England, entry of death (certified) for Tallulah Rebecca Monceaux [Mounceaux] McCants, died 4 August 1928; registered September quarter 1928, Hastings District 322, Hastings Central Sub-district, East Sussex; General Registry Office, Southport. 33 All Saints Parish (Herstmonceux, England), Burial Register, Dec. 1899 to Nov. 1957, vol. PAR 399 1/5/2, p. 53, Tallulah Rebecca Monceaux [Mounceaux] McCants (1928); The Keep, East Sussex Record Office, Brighton. Also, Churchyard, All Saints Parish, (Herstmonceux, County of East Sussex, England), Mrs. Tallulah Mounceaux McCants monumental inscription, read by Joyce M. Bowden, 2015. All Saints Parish is in the Diocese of Chichester. 34 Monceux McCants Window, Dacre Chapel, All Saints Church, Herstmonceux, East Sussex, England. The faces of the Virgin Mary and St. John, who flank Christ, are drawings of photographs of Tallulah and son Melnotte. The Monceux coat of arms and symbols suggesting McCants appear bottom left and bottom right. The Latin inscription spells Tallulah’s maiden name Mounceaux, which her daughter preferred. 35 Rock Presbyterian Church (Greenwood, South Carolina), “Session Book, 1858-1883,” M, p. 280, Rock Church Family Register, Wm Calhoun Mounce, Feby 8, 1862, Nov 24, 1863 [1862], n.d. (after 1874); parish rectory, Greenwood. Also, Walker to Motes, Mounce family group record, 9 May 1992. Also, Rock Presbyterian Church Cemetery (Greenwood, S.C.), “Our Little Calhoun” [William Calhoun Mounce] marker. 36 “Legal Notices,” Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle , 27 November 1907, online archives (https://www.genealogybank.com : 28 May 2021), p. 6, col. 7. 37 Georgia, U.S. Marriage Records from Select Counties, 1828-1978, Richmond County Marriages, Book N, 1878-1885, frame 214 of 345; citing County Marriage Records, 1828- 1978, The Georgia Archives, Morrow, Georgia.

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