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RIght: Historic plate located
on 302 Princess Anne St.
Ella Hicks Purcell died
in 1935, aged 73, and
left all her property to
her one daughter, but
gave her husband a
lifetime interest in 302
Princess Anne Street.
However, he was to
allow Mamie Powell, a woman who had been raised by Ella,
to occupy the house "if she finds it necessary to do so,"
according to Johnson. This was another "unusual" provision
in records related to Mrs. Purcell.
Ella Purcell wasn't the only single woman with a relation
to 302 Princess Anne Street. The original 1843 owner of
the lot that later became 300, 302, and 304 Princess Anne
Street was Jane Jones, a widow who lived in a frame house
that later became 300 Princess Anne.
