Mary Elizabeth Mahan

1844 - Aft 1934  (> 91 years)

• Name	Mary Elizabeth Mahan
  Birth	Dec 1844	Liberty, Trumbull, Ohio, USA
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 1934
  Person ID	I14027	MacFarlane
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward Mahan,   b. Abt 1812, Ireland d. 15 Nov 1881, Liberty, Trumbull, Ohio, USA (Age 69 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lydia McFarland,   b. Abt 1814, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA d. 22 Apr 1897, Liberty, Trumbull, Ohio, USA (Age 83 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	7 Oct 1835	Trumbull Co., Ohio, USA   [1]
  Family ID	F4475	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George McKinney,   b. 25 Jan 1840, Youngstown, Mahoning, Ohio, USA d. Between 1910 and 1920 (Age 69 years)
  Marriage	14 May 1868
  Children	+ 1. Carrie McKinney,   b. 25 Feb 1872, Ohio, USA d. Aft 1930 (Age > 59 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F659	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 May 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Mary Elizabeth Mahan was born in Liberty, Ohio December, 1844, the fif th child of Edward and Lydia (McFarland) Mahan. She grew up there on h er family's farm. May 14, 1868, she married George McKinney, of Youngstown township, an d they had one child, daughter Carrie, born February 25, 1872. They st ayed in Youngstown through at least 1900, when they are found living n ext to Carrie, her husband Willia m Hall and their first newborn, Eliza beth. In 1910 they are sharing the Hall's home in Coitsville and livin g on their own personal income. By 1920, Mary E. was widowed, and stil l living with Carrie and William, and in 1930 the situation was th e sa me. Mary Elizabeth (Mahan) McKinney of Coitsville, Ohio, corresponded wit h her cousin Margaret (Welles) McFarlin of Millburn, New Jersey in Ma y of 1934. Mary was almost ninety at the time and Margaret seventy. Th e two letters were hand copied by Ma rgaret's son Donald Welles McFarli n about 1960, and his brother Kirk McFarlin personally gave photocopie s to his nephew Peter F McFarlin in 1974. Mary was sharing some biographical information about their common ance stors; Margery Anderson McFarland, Caleb Baldwin, and Amos Loveland. S he wrote "...Caleb Baldwin's name was always familiar to me and the ol d gravestone was familiar to me . I always liked to wander around in ol d graveyards and read the inscriptions on the stones..." 1850 census; Liberty, Ohio p 131 with Edward Mahan (Mary's age 6, bor n in Ohio) 1860 census; Liberty, Ohio p 221 with Edward Mahan (Mary's age 15, bor n in Ohio) 1870 census; Youngstown, Ohio p 391 (her age 21sic, born in Ohio) 1880 census; ? 1900 census; Youngstown, Ohio ED 68 p 220 on Market St (her age 55, bo rn Dec 1844, in Ohio, mar 32 yrs, father b in Ireland, mother b in Ohi o) 1910 census; Coitsville, Ohio ED 79 p 160 (her age 66, born in Ohio , m 42 yrs, 1 of 1 children living, both parents b in Ireland) 1920 census; Coitsville, Ohio ED 109 p 52 (her age 75, widow, born i n Ohio, father b in Ireland, mother b in Ohio) 1930 census; Coitsville, Ohio ED 37 p 174, with her daughter Carrie Ha ll, (Mary's age 85, father b in northern Ireland, mother b in Ohio)

  
  

• Sources

  [S57] Peter Folsom McFarlin, Descendants of John McFarland, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: John McFarland descendants (no notes).pdf rec: 6 Dec 2010;;;;;).