She was born in 1838 as Maria Elizabeth Jourdan. When she was 17 she married Willis Furman Westmoreland, a physician and ten years her senior. Westmoreland died in 1890. Maria remarried a man first name unknown, last name Washington. They lived in New York City from about 1889 to 1893/4. In 1894 she was living in Atlanta, Georgia.
We need all the information we can acquire, especially period newspaper articles. Help? Anyone?
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I have not checked newspapers as yet (and perhaps others can do that) but using Ancestry and Find a Grave - her first husband Willis Furman (Forman) Westmoreland married her in 1856 in Salt Lake, Utah. He died 27 June 1890. Find a Grave provides a newspaper obit (with photograph) and a longer obit from the Journal of the American Medical Association. His widow, Maria, died 29 April 1900 in Atlanta, Georgia, as Maria Washington. There is a newspaper cutting on Find a Grave, but alas no photograph. She had two children - one was Dr Willis F Westmoreland (we assume Jr.) (1865-1935) who was married three times and shot himself in 1935.
I can trace descendants thus far to 1977 and can try and make contact to see if a photograph exists, but it would be very helpful to know what her connection is with Watch Tower history.
They married in La Grange, George. As far as we can tell, neither was ever in Salt Lake City. When living in New York City 1889-c. 1893 she hosted meetings in her house based on Millennial Dawn. She traveled to Allegheny to meet Russell and had a framed photo of him in her house. She returned to Atlanta about 1894 engaging in missionary work. The article that tells us this does not name M.D. but the doctrines it describes are Watch Tower doctrines. We cannot trace her in any detail past 1894.
Furman is correct, Forman is not. He was a CSA general in the medical corps. She wrote two plays produced in Atlanta, the proceeds went to support needy soldier families. In the 1870s she was active in the women's rights movement. She explored several religions, finding them disappointing. We need details on her life from her husband's death to her death.
One of her novels has been scanned. https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QacmLqBE4v0gUpxgKAQKT3vB5otoNRLODl9sgySN8GWOww9GK9ah3oSFgC4hSng0r-hMOc968T6XXjjg1fQLHJuWd7Yq_CupwXT6Ywtdbf9jQCNmCbHuqlS3inXUC_mHmHCFb1KJsk8woxREdH6Ewu1rxAGJwFsrUEyO3CB-N-60DqYkpUeEq70Kfp01K5yfAbQI7QugS0YtHk3tBqhKdi5UIGc__PxnnOsL9p1gLUDYZNK0v-GpO4lH48yH-TeEoU7-gqmK
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