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- 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)
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