Mary Frances Leavens ^{1 2 3 4 5}

  General Notes:

The most likely census entry in 1860 for this family is at S. E. Beat, Yalobusha County, Mississippi. It lists B.F. Gillan 31 born in Mississippi. He was a farmer with $400 in real estate and $250 in personal assets. Listed with him was Mary F. 29 born in Georgia, and Elain M. 5 a male born in Alabama. The Ancestry.com reference is:

Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: S E Beat, Yalobusha, Mississippi; Roll M653_594; Page: 914; Image: 396; Family History Library Film: 803594.

At the time of the 1870 census, she was living in Collin County, Texas. At the time of the 1880 census, she was in Hamilton County, Texas. Her father was born in Georgia, her mother in North Carolina. She was living in Mills County, Texas, in 1900. At the time of the 1910 census, she was living with son Benjamin Franklin Geeslin and his family in Mills County, Texas.

Mary married Benjamin Franklin Geeslin on 9 Jun 1851 in Dahlonega, Lumpkin, Georgia, United States. (Benjamin Franklin Geeslin was born on 15 Mar 1822 in Mississippi,^{2 6} died in 1908 in Texas ⁶ and was buried in Goldthwaite Memorial Cemetery, Goldthwaite, Mills County, Texas ⁶.)