a picture from the grave of my second great grandmother Louisa Catherine Aldridge King, born 1850 in Virginia. Wife of Mike King. Mother of Turissia Marcella King.
I have yet to find a document to explain the name Octaive on the stone but who knows. sometimes people had two or more middle names. I suspect it should say Octavia, but still unknown.
While some have credited her as a daughter of Madison Martin Aldridge, it has been pointed out that Madison was separated from her mother long before she was born, and he could not be her father.
A cousin said that her mother, Polly Gibson, married Madisons brother, Green Aldridge, and that all of Polly's children were his. however, in the divorce trial, Madison said that Polly had two men who were possible fathers of her children.
Louisa married Mike O King, a distant cousin of George Washington.
No word on what happened to Polly, but she may have moved away with Green.
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