Marion Slocomb Suite

Marion Slocomb (Winborn) 1911-1979. We dedicate this room to Susan’s maternal grandmother Marion Slocomb. Marion was a fiesty, Southern redhead, married to Magruder Winborn. They ran a lumber and hamper mill in Lumberton, Alabama. Later, they moved to Poplarville, Mississippi, where Susan, her mother and siblings lived with their grandmother while her father was stationed in Korea with the Army. The Slocombs lived for a century in the South, but when Susan and I moved to Massachusetts in 1999, we were returning to her roots. The Slocombs had a home in Sutton, Massachusetts in 1640, just twenty years after the Mayflower. And in 1691, John Winborn married Elizabeth Hart of Salem, who ultimately, at age 70, became one of the most famous of the accused “Salem witches” and spent seven months in prison. Winborn’s ancestors were Montegues who came to Virginia in 1635.