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- Mary was reportedly a very stern woman. She was an active temperance campaigner. She, along with some other women, was arrested and jailed for a short time in Pittsburgh for their vigorous campaign against the saloons of Pittsburgh.
Mary and William moved from where they were married in Allegheny County, PA to Pittsburgh two years after they were married, where Willima died in 1874. Later, in 1880, Mary and her sons Sam and William and their families moved to Mira Valley, south of Ord, Nebraska to a farm near other family members who had migrated there earlier.
Mary and her sons did not succeed as farmers in the rich farm land of Mira Valley so they moved into the nearby town of North Loup, Nebraska which was 11 miles SE of Ord, Nebraska. Mary (called Grandma [the 'ma' sounding like the word map without the p] by everyone who knew her in Nebraska. She died suddenly while sitting in a chair in the home of her son Sam. It was a heart attack. Her funeral service was in her home in North Loup, Nebraska, conducted by the pastor of the loca Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Though we have record on only eight of her children, she bore 13 children. Only six survived her.
Mary kept insisting that her daughter-in-law have another child. The daughter-in-law said, "Absolutely not, until we have running water on the second floor." So Mary had running water installed on the second floor. There was another baby.
Her funeral service was conducted at her home in North Loup, Nebraska, on a Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. B. Prentice, pastor of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in North Loup. The next day, Monday, her body was shipped to Pittsburgh, accompanied by her sons Sam and William (the latter then of Chicago) so she could be buried beside her husband in what a newspaper article said was "in the cemetery at her girlhood home."
After William died Mary and her sons Sam and Will and their families moved to Mira Valley (Ord), NE to farm near other family. They did not succeed as farmer so they moved to North Loup, NE. Mary owned a 2 story home caticorner accross from the school. She lived on the bottom floor, Sam & his wife and 1st child lived on 2nd floor. Mary urged Sam & Mattie to have more children but Mattie said not as long as she had to carry water upstairs to cook, bath and care for a family (there was no plumbing upstairs). So Mary bought a one story home. She lived in one wing and Sam's family lived in another wing, and soon 3 more children arrived. One of those new children, Margaret Smith, said that Mary was VERY stern. Bill & Mary had 13 children, only 7 lived.
Mary died in the home of her son Sam, of heart failure during a week-long illness. She died unexpectedly while sitting in a chair. William & Mary had moved into Pittsburgh in 1846 but she moved with several family people to Mira Valley, Nebraska in 1880, just south of Ord, NE. Mary was reportedly a very stern woman. She was an active temperance campaigner. She, along with some other women, was arrested and jailed for a short time in Pittsburgh for their vigorous campaign against the saloons of Pittsburgh.
Mary and William moved from where they were married in Allegheny County, PA to Pittsburgh two years after they were married, where Willima died in 1874. Later, in 1880, Mary and her sons Sam and William and their families moved to Mira Valley, south of Ord, Nebraska to a farm near other family members who had migrated there earlier.
Mary and her sons did not succeed as farmers in the rich farm land of Mira Valley so they moved into the nearby town of North Loup, Nebraska which was 11 miles SE of Ord, Nebraska. Mary (called Grandma [the 'ma' sounding like the word map without the p] by everyone who knew her in Nebraska. She died suddenly while sitting in a chair in the home of her son Sam. It was a heart attack. Her funeral service was in her home in North Loup, Nebraska, conducted by the pastor of the loca Seventh Day Baptist Church.
Though we have record on only eight of her children, she bore 13 children. Only six survived her.
Mary kept insisting that her daughter-in-law have another child. The daughter-in-law said, "Absolutely not, until we have running water on the second floor." So Mary had running water installed on the second floor. There was another baby.
Her funeral service was conducted at her home in North Loup, Nebraska, on a Sunday afternoon, conducted by Rev. A. B. Prentice, pastor of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in North Loup. The next day, Monday, her body was shipped to Pittsburgh, accompanied by her sons Sam and William (the latter then of Chicago) so she could be buried beside her husband in what a newspaper article said was "in the cemetery at her girlhood home."
After William died Mary and her sons Sam and Will and their families moved to Mira Valley (Ord), NE to farm near other family. They did not succeed as farmer so they moved to North Loup, NE. Mary owned a 2 story home caticorner accross from the school. She lived on the bottom floor, Sam & his wife and 1st child lived on 2nd floor. Mary urged Sam & Mattie to have more children but Mattie said not as long as she had to carry water upstairs to cook, bath and care for a family (there was no plumbing upstairs). So Mary bought a one story home. She lived in one wing and Sam's family lived in another wing, and soon 3 more children arrived. One of those new children, Margaret Smith, said that Mary was VERY stern. Bill & Mary had 13 children, only 7 lived.
Mary died in the home of her son Sam, of heart failure during a week-long illness. She died unexpectedly while sitting in a chair. William & Mary had moved into Pittsburgh in 1846 but she moved with several family people to Mira Valley, Nebraska in 1880, just south of Ord, NE.
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1827 - 1904 (76 years)
