Pickett\u2019s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg<\/a>. After farming in Yalobusha, Jasper, and Leake Counties, Henry and his previous wife, Maggie, moved into Beauvoir on January 1, 1908. Sadly, Maggie died shortly afterwards of heart disease.<\/p>\nMary Easterland was a native of Jones County, Mississippi, and she moved into the old soldier\u2019s home on a widow\u2019s pension on July 27, 1908. It was there that she met the recently widowed Henry Craven.<\/p>\n
According to the home\u2019s superintendent, John K. Mosby, the \u201cRomeo and Juliet affair [had] been brewing for some months.\u201d After learning of his wards\u2019 plans from Reverend Finley, Mosby quietly converted a hospital room into a room for the newlyweds. \u201cI am going to take care of my children to the best of my ability,\u201d he told the Daily Herald<\/em>, \u201cso when I thought of this room I had it prepared for the returning lovers.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Cravens were only the first of several marriages between residents at Beauvoir. In fact, their \u201csecret\u201d nuptials preempted the wedding of Captain Robert Whitley and his fiance that had been scheduled on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n
Henry and Mary Craven lived happily together at Beauvoir for the next five years, organizing charity events together and donating fifty dollars to erect a memorial to the women of the Confederacy. Henry died in 1914 and was survived by his wife.<\/p>\n
Lead author: Allan Branstiter, Southern Miss history doctoral candidate. Research conducted by Southern Miss student Perre Carter.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On December 22, 1909, Henry H. Craven and Mary Easterland ran away from home and eloped. The couple probably had no idea just how widespread knowledge of their \u201csecret\u201d plot had become\u2014in fact, the Biloxi Daily Herald printed the\u00a0news of their nuptials even before Reverend J. L. Finley finished conducting their wedding. \u201cThe wedding to… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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