Margaret Krutsinger was the mother of Elisabeth Gammon Nash, the grandmother of Emaline “Emma” Nash Carson, the great grandmother of Mary E. Carson Wyant, and the great great grandmother of Bessie Ethel Wyant Wellons, my grandmother.
She was born on May 15, 1812 in Greene County, Tennessee. She died on February 11, 1894 in Oskaloosa Township of Clay County, Illinois. She was age 81 when she passed.
She married Harris Gammon on January 28, 1830.
Harris Gammon died on October 15, 1831.
A son, James Mathew Gammon, was born in 1830.
Their daughter, Elisabeth Gammon, was born on April 15, 1832, after her father passed.
Margaret Krutsinger Gammon married John L. McCarty on January 18, 1834 in Orange County, Indiana. He was born on March 4, 1812 in Tennessee and died on September 11, 1897 in Oskaloosa Township of Clay County, Illinois.
They purchased land in Orange County, Indiana on August 10, 1837.
They had 9 children of their own between 1834 and 1850.
In the 1850 census in Orange County, Indiana we have:
John L. McCarty 38, a farmer
Margaret 38
Elisabeth Gammon 18
And 6 McCarty children
In the 1860 census in Marion County, Illinois we have:
John L. 48, a farmer
Mary 36 (sic)
And 3 McCarty girls aged 11-15
In the 1865 state census in Illinois, they live in Xenia, Marion County, Illinois.
In the 1870 census in Singer Township of Clay County, Illinois we have:
John L. 68
Margaret (no age given)
There is a civil war pension record with dates of awarding an invalid pension in 1886 and a widows pension (date illegible). Since Margaret preceded John L. McCarty in death, he may have remarried. Her name does not appear on the document.
Margaret Krutsinger Gammon McCarty was buried in the Stipp Cemetery, in Clay County, Illinois.
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