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Hardy and stories told by Nicholas’ mother. We will now summarize what Mr. Murray gave us on the children of Eliza Cameron Conerly:
A.	Nancy “Caroline” Conerly - bom on February 12, 1837, and died on December 4, 1855.
B.	Melissa Ann Conerly - bom on April 1, 1839. She married Absalom Hardy around 1868 in Washington Parish, Louisiana, and soon moved to St. Helena Parish. They had:
1.	Mary Melissa Hardy - bom 1869 and married Loren Bennett.
2.	Pinckney Hardy - bom 1870.
3.	Delilah Ann Hardy - bom 1872 and died in 1959. She married George Murray.
Melissa Ann’s husband died in 1875, and she married a second time to George G. Rabom.
C.	William James Conerly - bom in October 1841 and married Susan Dearman Whiddon. They had: Eliza, William, Bryant, and John Conerly.
D.	John “Jack” Conerly - bom March 10, 1843. He is believed to have moved to west Louisiana when young - possibly Rapides Parish.
E.	Sarah Ann Conerly - bom February 18, 1845, and she married Marion “Mitchell” Coleman. Family said she moved to Rapides Parish, Louisiana, and they had: Melissa, Eliza, and Sarah Coleman as found in the 1870 St. Helena Parish census.
F.	Winny Conerly - she shows up in the 1848 Marion County, Mississippi guardianship papers mentioned earlier. Probably named after her aunt, Winny Cameron Duncan. No further information or memory by family.
Many members of this family are buried in the Roberts cemetery in St. Helena Parish. Nicholas R. Murray said Eliza Cameron Conerly died around 1898 and is buried in the Roberts cemetery next to her daughter, Melissa Ann, as told to him by his mother, Delilah Hardy Murray.
VII.	Alfred Cameron - bom in 1820 in South Carolina as found in the 1850 census of Marion County, Mississippi. He was living with S. N. Stagmen that year and appeared to be unmarried. That year, he was also living next door to his sister, Eliza Cameron Conerly and her children. He served in the Civil War with the 7th Mississippi Infantry, Company F. This Company was called “Marion’s Men,” for Marion County, Mississippi. Alfred was given a medical discharge on November
8,	1861, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The last record we have on him is in the 1866 State census for Marion County where he was living with one older female bom between age 60 and 70 (about 1801). George Cameron of Meridian,
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