Hello Rebecca
Marie Isabelle Tillman was the sister of my great great grandmother Charlotte Lee Dixon Tillman.
Here is an obituary for Marie Isabelles mother;
Obituary:
TILLMAN- Mrs Charlotte L. Tillman of Lancaster County, S.C., died February 16th, 1880, in the 67th year of her age. She was raised under Presbyterian influences, but when about thirty years of age, in the full maturity of womanhood, she joined the Methodist Church, of which she continued a consistent member to the time of her departure. She was a true and earnest Christian as indicated by all her words and ways. For about thirty years she had been a widow. Left with the cares of a plantation upon her hands, and a family of young children to bring up, she went energetically to work, and, with Gods blessing, managed her affairs successfully and reared her children in the fear of God, as is shown by the fact that all are professing Christians except one. She was of feeble frame and for many years had been expecting to die soon. For years she was accustomed to paying an annual visit to her friends and relatives in Sumter County, and when starting home always bade farewell, saying ''I don't suppose I shall ever see you again; before another year I shall be gone.'' When ___ sick I was with her much, she did not expect to get well, and spoke peacefully and assuredly of getting to a better world. She had peace with God, and all was clear. The influence of her Christian character is still felt; for ''she being dead yet speaketh. She used the means that God gave to prepare to meet him while she was well, and now that she has sickened and died, we fondly believe her to be in that country where the followers of Christ are forever happy.''
A tribute of love from her Pastor
Jas. W. Wolling
Her father was Isaac Tillman (b. 1809, d. 1849) and they lived near Great Falls, SC, near the Catawba River, plantation named Evergreen Hall.
Here is information for my great great grandmother ''Lottie'', as she was called;
Lottie was born at Evergreen Hall,across the Catawba river from Great Falls in Lancaster county on October 8,1838. She was educated at Barhamville Female Institute near Columbia, SC. She is mentioned on page 338 of ''South Carolina Women of the Confederacy'', edited by State Committee of the Daughters of the Confederacy, published in 1903 by The State Company in Columbia. The Bishopville chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy is named ''The Lottie Green Chapter''.
On August 17, 1910, the Spartanburg Herald published a confederate veterans edition and is as follows:
''Lottie Lee Green was born october 8, 1838 at Evergreen Hall near Great Falls in Lancaster county, SC. She was one of five children of Charlotte Dixon and Isaac Tillman and was educated at Barhamville, near Columbia. At the age of 21 she married Col. John Thompson Green of Sumter county and came to live at Sylvan Hill, three miles south of Bishopville in a house which was built before the revolution and is still standing. Left a widow in the early 60's with two little children, William I., and Minnie Thompson, Francis having died, she visited her girlhood home in Lancaster county and there suffered hardships due to Shermans' raiders.Later she returned to her home and in 1872 married her brother-in-law, Major William McDonald Green and moved to his home, Cedar Plains where two sons were born to them. She was left a widow in 1885, since which time she has resided in Bishopville where she now spends her time in the homes of her only living children, Mrs. W. W. Hearon and Dr. Frances Laval Green.
Mrs. Green is a gentle lady of the old school,one whom our younger women respect and strive to be like. Cultivated and refined, she makes things beautiful about her and people happier wherever she goes. Her sympathy for others, a genuine human interest, is indicated by the passionate love her grandchildren have for ''Dannie.'' She typiefies to us that southern woman who, though thrust by the rude hands of war from the happy regime of the old south into the realms of misfortune, personal grief and changed conditions, has reached the evening of life, still the same gentle lady and home-maker that she ever was.'' (There is a photo of Lottie on page 32 of this edition)
After the death of Colonel John Thompson Green, his widow, Charlotte Lee (Tillman) Green, ''Lottie'', married his brother, Major William McDonald Green. See page 35.
Obituary:
MRS. LOTTIE GREEN PASSED AWAY LAST THURSDAY
On Thursday, March 31, 1921, Mrs. Lottie Lee Tillman Green, one of our beloved women of the confederacy, passed away at the home of her son, Dr. F. L. Green.
Mrs. Green was born in Lancaster County October 8th, 1837, being in her 84th year at the time of her death. Although nearing the century mark in years her mind was clear and active to the last, always saying words of kindness and praise to all the loved ones and friends who ministered to her wants.
Mrs. Green's mothers home was near the Catwba river in Lancaster County and was the headquarters of Captain Kirkpatrick, and many amusing as well as heart rendering occurrences happened there while the Northern foe occupied this home. The family being under the protection of the Masonic Order, suffered only for lack of food. They were protected by a guard both night and day.
She having married Col. John Thompson Green previous to the war and at this time being a widow with two little children returned to her mothers home where she resided until some years later when she returned to this county as the wife of Maj. William McDonald Green, brother of her former husband, Col. Green.
When the U.D.C. Chapter was organized the name of this noble woman was proposed, hence the Lottie Green Chapter U.D.C. She was made honorary president and attended the meetings and advised as long as she was able, and many are the pleasant hours the chapter spent with her and many, many pleasant memories will the chapter of the U.D.C. hold of one dear to them.
I recently found two pictures that Lottie had in her posession at the time of her death. One is an adult James Dixon Tillman and the other an infant picture of ''Little Marie''. I am not sure who they are exactly but I can email them to you if you like.
Lottie had at least one more sister, Elizabeth, who married Lottie's husbands brother, Major William McDonald Green.
Two brothers, Columbus F. Tillman, who married Mattie Blake, possibly kin to James Heath Blake, and Isaac William Tillman who married Mary Jane Cureton.
I have a photo of Lottie and her husband.
I would be interested in knowing more about the family of James Heath Blake and his wife Marie Isabelle Tillman. And if Mattie Blake is related to James Heath Blake.