194. Mary R. Gee (might be Mary A. Gee)

 There is a student named Mary R. Gee in the list I made for my dissertation's appendix in 1996. She was from Halifax County NC, attended the Mordecai school for four sessions, from early 1816 to the end of 1817, and the named Neville Gee is associated with her account.

Let's see what the online sources can tell me about this student now. Okay, this one is easier than Virginia Gaulejean(?). I think? Not 100% sure, but this is what I think I've pieced together, mostly on Ancestry:

Neville Gee (1773-1828) of Halifax County NC married Elizabeth Harwell, and had eight children, including Mary. Elizabeth Harwell Gee died sometime in the 1810s. Mary Gee was sent to the Mordecai school in 1816 and 1817; sometimes school enrollment was a way to manage the children of a grieving household.  Or maybe her father was making social connections; the Alston family had several daughters at the Mordecai school over the years, and he was remarried to Elizabeth M. Alston in October 1817. 

Mary Gee married Hutchins B. Mitchell in 1821. In 1828, her father died in Wilcox, Alabama. Did she also move to Alabama? I lose track of her after 1821. Do you know her fate? Leave me a comment.

193. Virginia Gaulejean (?)

There is a Virginia Gaulejean in the list of Mordecai school students I made for my dissertation's appendix from 1996. She was at the school for both 1815 sessions, and the adult name attached to her account is Louis Gaulejean.

Not much to go on, but maybe a distinctive name will help. Let's see what online sources can tell me about her now.... hmmmm. Not much comes up for the name Gaulejean at all. Maybe misspelled? Gaullejean? Gallejean? Galejean? Not turning up much of a clue for those names either. 

Without the original documents or a hometown or something to go on, I don't think this one is going to be solved right now. There was a probably student named Virginia at the school in 1815. Her last name? Might have started with a G and might have been or sounded French. There might have been a father or brother named Louis. If any of this sounds familiar, leave me a comment!