Tombstone Tuesday - Cowger

Gustavus C. Cowger

died Aug. 27, 1884

84 years, 3 days

Cowger Cemetery

Doniphan County, Kansas

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Midwest Family History Expo - It's almost here!

I get to be there. I'll be making the following presentations:

• What's Your Line? (beginning genealogy research)
• Method or Madness? (onsite research, planned or not!)
• Question Everything (evaluating & analyzing data)

There are lots of fabulous presentations being made. I'm very excited! Come, and check it out :)

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Backward Glance - Mary Lord

Not much is known at this time about Mary Lord who married John Hoyle. We do know that she and John emigrated to Canada in about 1879. Mary died in Dundas, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada, on March 11, 1886. According to the extracted death record, she was 76 years old, making her born about 1809/10.

Mary and John were married on February 3, 1851, in Goodshaw, Lancashire, England. John had been married previously and had several children. He and Mary had one child, John Richard Hoyle, who was born April 28, 1852. Mary's father's name was Richard.

When the census was taken in 1851, the family lived on Rings Row, Higher Booths, Lancashire, England. It is recorded that Mary was born in Mitchells, Lancashire. In both 1861 and 1871, her birthplace is recorded as Higher Booths. According to family sources, she was born in Goodshaw Chapel, Crawshawbooth, Lancashire. All of these places are located near each other. John and Mary lived with their family on Orchard Place in Crawshaw Booth in 1871.

Tombstone Tuesday - Harpold

William Harpold

d. March 25, 1898

Kingston Cemetery

Kingston, Caldwell County, Missouri
(Woodmen of the World fraternal
organization memeber)

Backward Glance - Grace Eliza Coryell

The name of Grace Eliza Coryell Marguerat has been familiar to me almost as long as I can remember. She was my Grandma Claire Hoyle's grandmother who lived in Chicago. Grandma was very proud of her heritage through Grace, who was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.), being a descendant of both John Coryell and Emanuel Coryell, who served with distinction. John Coryell supplied General George Washington with boats to cross the Delaware River at Coryell's Ferry. Emanuel was a quartermaster.

Born into this distinguished family on September 12, 1838, in Nichols, Tioga County, New York, her parents were George Patterson and Harriet Nancy (Field) Coryell. Grace was the third of four children. Sarah and Charles were older, with a younger sister, Martha. All of them eventually moved to the Chicago, Illinois, area.

She attended a Moravian school in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and in A history of the Moravian seminary for young ladies: at Bethlehem, Pa, is a record of her marriage to Eugene Marguerat.

 

By 1862, Grace and Eugene were established in Chicago. As a prominent and respected citizen of Chicago, she was mentioned in society page articles. Grace was active in the D.A.R., as well as other organizations in the city. She belonged to the Chicago Woman's Club for many years, beginning in November of 1880. She was a member of the Reform Committee in 1890.

According to this reference, she submitted an essay. It would be so interesting to find it!

Annual announcement of the Chicago Woman's Club
 By Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.)  Grace Marguerat, a member.
"Nov. 18.—ART AND LITERATURE COMMITTEE. 
Paper: The French Drama.
Essayist: Mrs. G. E. Marguerat." p. 61.

Grace bore seven children: Claire Elise, William Allen, Charles Coryell, Eugene Francois, George Coryell, Henri Debonneville and John Parson. While all of them lived to adulthood, the family suffered several tragedies in the way of infant and child deaths, as well as the early death of a daughter-in-law by suicide. There were also other reasons for sadness, including divorces, and another daughter-in-law who was declared insane and placed in a mental institution. I imagine Grace to have been a very strong woman.

Eugene died on March 7, 1907. Grace outlived him by eight years, almost to the day, passing away on March 6, 1915, in Chicago. According to her death record, she succumbed to chronic bronchitis, which she had suffered for 30 years. She is buried in the Graceland Cemetery in Chicago.