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Note: WFT #3213 has marriage date of June 04, 1877. McConeghy family records have that date for a previous marriage to Bart Sugram
1880 US Census, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, ED #95, page 8 (stamped 214-D), dwelling #51, family #88,
ancestry.com image #8 of 55, enumerated June 3, 1880; Roll: T9_107; Family History Film: 1254107; Page: 214D;
Enumeration District: 95; Image: 0712.
address: 42 Boswell Avenue (2 families in this house)
Bart Shugrue(?), head, age 25, born in CT, parents born in Ireland, occ: Moulder,
Mary, wife, age 26, born in NY, parents born in Ireland, occ: Housekeeping
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1889 City Directory for Norwich, New London County, Connecticut
Name: Mary Shugrue, widow Bartholomew
Location : boards 118 Yantic St
she is also listed as a widow in the 1890 and 1891 Directories
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1900 US Census for Sergeant Township, McKean County (Clermont) , PA, page 6, dwelling #52,
enumerated June 4, 1900.
Fred Decker, head, age 25, born May 1875, married for 3 years, born in Iowa, parents born in New York,
occupation RR Conductor, unemployed for 1 month in the year,
owned his house free of mortgage. Mary Decker, wife, age 44, born Apr 1856 in NY, both parents born in Ireland, had had one child
Elizabeth Decker, daughter, age 3 months, born Feb 1900 in PA, parents born in Iowa and New York,
Margaret Keating, sister-in-law, age 40, born May 1860 in Canada, both parents born in Ireland,
occupation: servant
also in household:
Laura (?) Mc?????, a 26 year old female servant, born in PA in Dec 1876, both parents born in Canada, out of work for 4 months in the year
Marvin (?) Reed (or Rud) a 24 year old male boarder, born in PA, father born in NY, mother born in Ireland, occupation, RR Brakeman
Burt Rice, a 22 year old male boarder, born in June 1877 in PA , father born in PA, mother born in NY,
occupation: baggagemaster
all the adults could read, write and speak English
(Note: Fred Decker was Mary Keating's second husband)
(Note: I believe that the 1900 census is incorrect and that she was really 46 in 1900 and had been born in 1854 not 1856 - see note below)
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1910 US Census for Sergeant Township, McKean County, PA, enumerated in April 1910, page 7
[Note: the handwriting on this census is very bad, often undecipherable and film image is fuzzy]
Mary Decker, age 56, born in NY, both parents born in Ireland, had had 1 child, 1 still living, house keeping xx xxxxxx
Elizabeth, daughter, age 10, born in PA, attended school within the year
Margaret Keating, sister of Mary, age 50, born in Canada, house keeping
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1920 US Census, Sergeant Twp (Clermont), McKean Co, Pennsylvania, ED 146, enumerated Feb 23, 1920, dwelling 25 family 25, sheet 2A.
Mary Decker, head, age 65, married, owned her home free of mortgage, born in NY, father and mother born in Ireland, occ: Boardinghouse keeper
Elizabeth Decker, daughter, age 19, single, born in PA, father born in Iowa, mother in NY, occ: teacher graded school
Margaret Keating, sister, age 60, single, born in Canada, father and mother born in Ireland, occ: none
James Ennia, lodger, age 25, single, born in PA, NY, PA, occ : miner coal mines
Noah Holmes, lodger, age 25, single, born in PA, PA, PA, occ: clerk, lease work
James Ross, lodger, age 34, single, born in PA, PA, PA, occ: laborer, teamster
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1930 US Census, Sergeant Township (Clermont), McKean County, Pennsylvania, ED 32, sheet 4-A (249) page 7 of 11,
enumerated April 15, 1930, dwelling #69, family # 69. address : Cross(?) Street.
Mary Decker, head, age 76, owned her home, value $3500, not a farm, born in NY, both parents born in Ireland, occ: landlady, boarding house. Age at first marriage : 23.
no other residents listed.
She did not own a radio set. (But there was one next door in the boarding house she ran.)
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Apparently sometime after 1910, her husband Fred left and she started taking in boarders, and ran a boarding house with her sister and her daughter in 1920 and by 1930 she had moved next door by herself, and her daughter and husband lived in the borading house and Mary continued to act as landlady and owner.
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(Note: if she was born in 1856, she should have been 74 in 1930 not 76 ?? The 1900 census is the source for the 1856 birth year. That census listed her as 44 years old which matched the 1856 date, but the 1910 census shows her as 56 which is 2 years older than she should have been, and the 1910 1920 and 1930 follow that through so possibly the 1900 census is incorrect and that either the enumerator got the year wrong and miscalculated the age or vice-versa. Also if she was born in 1856 and her first marriage was at age 23 as the 1930 census states, then she would have been married in 1879 not 1877 as we have, but if the 1900 census is wrong and she was really 46 then not 44, then she was born in 1854 so the 1877 marriage date would be correct if she was 23 then.)
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lived in Clermont, PA. She was married twice. First to a Bart ? Sugram ? June 4 1877 in Norwich CT.
Then a second marriage to Fred Decker in Dec 31, 1896 in Clermont, PA. One daughter by the second marriage. It is unknown if she was divorced or if her first husband died.
WFT #3213 does not show Bart Sugram and has the date of her first marriage listed on the Decker marriage in error.
From the 1910 census data it appears that her second husband also died or ran off between 1900 and 1909 (he was 25, she was 44 in 1900), but she was not listed as a widow in any of the censuses nor as divorced.
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