Monument Honoring Five Children of Timothy and Catherine Campbell

In St. Joseph's Cemetery in Sandusky, in Section D, is a monument which honors the memory of several children of Timothy and Catherine Campbell, who were both natives of Ireland. 

John Campbell died in 1874, at the age of 22. Thaddeas, who was also known as Timothy, died in 1881, in an accident involving a train car at the Lake Shore Railway Depot in Sandusky. William Campbell died in 1895 in Fort Worth, Texas. Fanny Campbell died in 1888, at the age of 28. Catherine, who went by Kitty, died in 1882 at the age of 20.

Timothy Campbell, the father of the Campbell family died in 1896. He and his wife Catherine, who died in 1906, are honored on a separate monument at St. Joseph's.

There were several other children in the Campbell family. James Campbell moved to Spokane, Washington, Robert and Joseph Campbell moved to Michigan. Daughter Mary Campbell first married John Cullen. Mr. and Mrs. Cullen ran a boarding house on Washington Street in Sandusky. After the death of John Cullen, Mary married businessman Patrick J. Milan. Mary was living in Cleveland, Ohio, with her daughter, at the time of her death in 1920. At that time, Patrick J. Milan was living in Hot Springs, Arkansas, due to ill health. Mr. Milan died in 1926. He is buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery next to his first wife and several children.

Anyone with loved ones who are buried in St. Joseph's Cemetery on Mills Street in Sandusky can learn more about their family members by consulting the St. Joseph's Cemetery book of interments at the Sandusky Library. Ask to see this resource at the Reference Services Desk. Details provide dates of birth and death, if known, and location within the cemetery.

George and Rosella Mavros

 

George and Rosella "Rosie" Mavros were longtime residents of Bay Bridge, Ohio. George was an employee of the Medusa Cement company in Bay Bridge. They were married in 1927. George Mavros was born in Greece, and Rosie was the child of Louis Lakner, a Hungarian immigrant and his wife, the former Mary Szabo.

At Medusa, there were two men of Greek descent, both with the first name George. So everyone could tell them apart, George Mavros was known as "Big George" and George Fourtounis was known as "Little George," because of their obvious differences in height. Both Georges are in the picture below, which features Medusa's "25 year men," from the early 1950s.

A brief article in December 13, 1929 issue of the Sandusky Register reported on the meeting of brothers George and Tony Mavros, after they had not seen each other in several years.

One of my uncles told me that Rosie Mavros was an outstanding cook. He said that when she made a dish with sauce, he would sop up the sauce with bread. Rosie can be seen in the picture below, in the center, at the far right. An article in the Sandusky Register Star News of Feb. 4, 1947 featured a story about the students and parents of Venice School.

George Mavros retired from Medusa Cement in 1958, and he died in 1959. He was survived by his wife Rosella, and three children, four grandchildren, two sisters in Greece and a brother in Mexico City. Rosella Mavros died in 1989, having been a widow for thirty years. Mr. and Mrs. Mavros were buried in Section T of Oakland Cemetery in Erie County, Ohio.

Mary Luciel Mcgorkey Mulligan, Advocate for Nurses

 

Photo credit: Find a Grave

Mary Luciel McGookey was born on April 11, 1903, in Venice, Ohio, in Erie County, Ohio to Barney and Mary Olive McGookey. Her McGookey ancestors were from Northern Ireland. An early spelling of her surname was MacGuckin. Mary Luciel had an identical twin sister named Laurene McGookey. The twins attended nursing school at Dixmont State Hospital in Pennsylvania.

From 1937 to 1942 Mary Luciel McGookey, aka Mary Luciel McGorkey, was active in labor organizations to help improve workings conditions for nurses and other hospital employees. Her first husband was Harry Liss, and her second husband was attorney William G. Mulligan. They had an adopted son and a daughter named Luciel "Sita" Mulligan, born in 1948. Mary Luciel McGookey/McGorkey Mulligan died in 1990. She was buried in the Venice Cemetery in Erie County, Ohio. 

To learn much more about Mary Luciel McGookey/McGorkey Mulligan, see volume 3 of American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Vern L. Bullough, RN, PhD, FAAN (Springer Publishing, 2004.) This resource is found at several university libraries in the U.S., often as an online resource.