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- note on Find a Grave:
It is believed her first husband died in the war. I have her obit it doesn't say when she was born.
In 1860 Rock Island County, Illinois, census her age was 12.
Her d/cer said she was 86 when she died.
Taken from the Muscatine Iowa Journal Wednesday Jan. 4, 1933
Mrs. O'Brien, 86,
Taken By Death
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Short Illness Ends Tuesday;
Funeral Services Will Be
Held Thursday.
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Mrs. Mary Jane O'Brien, 86 died at the home of her daughter Mrs. Nancy T. Bierman, 216 Gilbert street at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday after a short illness.
Preceding her in death were her husband and 6 children. Surviving are the daughter, 12 grandchildren 21 great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren.
The body is at the Bierman home where it will remain until 2:30 p.m. Thursday when funeral services will be conducted there. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery. On her headstone it said she was born in 1846.
In 1915 Muscatine County, Iowa, census she said she was born in Indiana, and her parents were born in West Virginia I'm sure she meant Virginia, and she was 68.
1930 Muscatine, Muscatine County, Iowa district 17 page 15;
Mary J. O'Brien 84 wd. Indiana;
Research Source (June Welsch) e-mail jiwelsch@machlink.com
Arlene Swisher Solomon has a rolling pin that Mary Jane had made. It is made better then any you would buy today.
The following story was written by Ramona Wingerter Froehner; My great great g/mother, Mary Jane Brewer O'Brien met her husband Edward O'Brien when he was a soldier in the Union Army. At that time Fairport Iowa, was a thriving busy river town. During the Civil War there was an Union Encampment of soldiers across the river from Fairport in Illinois. After their marriage they went to farming in Illinois, However, Edward was no farmer and they eventually gave up on it and came back to Iowa, settling in Muscatine. Edward was an educated man, and had a beautiful handwriting. He taught all his children to read and write. He loved books and frequently gave Mary Jane a book for her birthday. He had a good number of books, including Pilgrims Progress, and a first edition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. His children said their father never spoke of his family or his life before the Civil War. Both Edward and Mary Jane smoked pipes. In their later years they lived on his soldier's pension. Once a month he would go to town to get staples, and a few treats, some sardines for he and Mary Jane, and peppermint drops for their daughter Maggie. They kept a big garden all their lives, and in later years lived mostly on the potatoes and beans from the garden, and eggs for breakfast.
Maintained by: Pastor Rachelle R. Card-Wells Bobenmoyer
Originally Created by: June Welsch
Added: Oct 31, 2009
Find a Grave Memorial ID: 43756688
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- LKH note:
This is possibly the first marriage of Mary Jane Brewer
Name Mary Jane Brewer
Gender Female
Marriage Date 23 Feb 1865
Marriage Place Rock Island, Illinois, USA
Spouse Name
James Doron
Spouse Gender Male
If so, James Doron died the next year in 1866.
Illinois wills and probate records
Name James Doran
Probate Date 17 Jan 1866
Probate Place Whiteside, Illinois, USA
Inferred Death Date 1866
Inferred Death Place Illinois, USA
Case Number 200
Item Description Estate Box No.200
Needs more research
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