Dolly Harrigill, Darsey

b. Sept. 15, 1914  d. July 19, 2000  the daughter and sixth child of  
Lydia Ann Newman  b. Sept. 12, 1881  d. Sept 02, 1957 and 
William Monroe Harrigill   b. Nov 17, 1870  d. Mar 24, 1919

Dolly married on June 4, 1934 to 
Oral Roy Powell  b.  Nov. 5, 1909  d.  Oct. 4, 1970 
They had Dolly Ann Powell  b.  April 23, 1938 (named after her mother)

Dolly then married on June 30, 1956 to  
Marvin Bertran Darsey  b. Jan. 20, 1928  d. Dec. 13, 2013

Her earliest ancestor to arrive in the Natchez District of Spanish West Florida was Reverend Daniel Harrigill, a Baptist minister. In 1788, he and his family came from Tennessee down the Mississippi River and landed near modern-day Natchez on Cole Creek. He immediately began preaching in defiance of the Spanish governor's order against unauthorized worship services. From the capitol on Ile de Orleans, the governor sent orders that Rev Harrigill was to be arrested and brought in chains that he might be tried. Luckily, Rev Harrigill was one jump ahead of the soldiers and escaped upcountry. He returned to his church a few years later when the British occupied the Natchez District.
Dolly's mother, Lydia Newman Harrigill, is descended from Revolutionary War patriot, Jonathan Newman, who served under Francis Marion, The Swamp Fox, and participated in the Siege of Charleston. The Newman family left South Carolina and settled in Mississippi before it was a state."

Dolly Harrigill, Darsey  is buried at the Natchez City Cemetary in Natchez, Mississippi in the Harrigill blots, along side her second husband, Marvin Darsey.
Dolly is Bettys 1st Cousin 2X removed.