Intersting family history any way it goes.
I have a question: Was your family related to the Vaughan/Vaughn or Terry family?
Mottie was the nickname of my great grandmother whose name was Mosley Ann Vaughn
the daughter of William Robinson Vaughn and Eliza Peace Terry Vaughn
of Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. They had
gone through the state of Mississippi in the late 1840's and early 1850's and were
considered people of means back in that time.
I have never seen that name anywhere else.