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64:, of Scotch descent. Both families owned large plantations in the South. Ten children were born of this union. Of these, William, Robert P., Cornelius, Azalene Deolese (Mrs. A. Johns), Hugh, Kate, Allen P., and John E. died young; Penhall and Edgar Mayo, who became a resident of
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