Mahala MCPHERSON

c.1785 - 1855

• Name	Mahala MCPHERSON
  Nickname	Mahaly
  Birth	c.1785  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	3 Aug 1855	Norfolk Co, VA   [1]
  	Mahaley died on 3 August 1855 during the yellow fever epidemic that devastated the populations of Portsmouth, Gosport and Norfolk, Virginia during July, August and September of 1855. She was 70 years old at the time of her death.
  death2 (conflicting)	8 Aug 1855  [2, 3]
  Burial	Portsmouth, Norfolk Co, VA   [3]
  	Her body was interred in the Stephen Bowers family plot at Cedar Grove Cemetery in Portsmouth, Virginia.
  Person ID	I59856	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family	Jeremiah BOWERS
  Notes	WINGO VOL III, P. 12 FOR MARRIAGE; BOWERS HARD FILE FOR 1850 CNEUSU.
  Children	1. Stephen E. BOWERS,   b. Abt 1829, Virginia d. 18 Mar 1919 (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F6024	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S274] Emily L. Walker, transcriber & editor, Walker, Norfolk County Birth & Death Register, (Norfolk, VA: by the editor, 1997), Deaths: p. 24. [S1281] Mahaly M. Bowers head stone inscription, Cedar Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, VA. [S5362] Cedar Grove Cemetery burial registers, Portsmouth, VA. information obtained August 2005.