Margaret Mary Carty, Native of Ireland

Margaret Mary Carty was born in Ireland, about 1842. In the 1880 U.S. Census, Margaret was working as a servant in the household of  Mr. and Mrs. John Wesley Stevenson, at 921 Washington Street (now 603 West Washington Street.) Mr. Stevenson was listed as a produce dealer. He was a brother in law to well known Sandusky photographer W.A. Bishop. 

Miss Carty died in January of 1888. A lovely monument honoring her memory is found in Section D at St. Joseph's Cemetery. According to church records, Rev. R.A. Sidley officiated at Margaret's funeral. 

The surname Carty is found on a stone near the tombstone of Margaret Mary Carty, though to date, no other close relatives were buried near her final resting place.

Rest in peace, Miss Margaret Mary Carty.

 

When Tom Helped Grandma Julia with Her Grocery List

My great grandparents, Joseph and Julia (Szomolya) Orshoski celebrated 50 years of marriage in 1971. Technically, Julia was my step great grandmother, as Grandpa Joe's first wife named Julia died in 1919, but the second Julia is the only Orshoski great grandma that I ever knew! Grandpa Joe and both his first and second wives were all born in Hungary.

One time Grandma Julia needed to go to the grocery store to get groceries. She often shopped at Marks Pick-n-Pay on Perkins Avenue in Sandusky, Ohio.

Grandma would go down her list, and purchase everthing in the order it was written on the list. My then husband Tom said to her, " Grandma, that takes too long, let me help you." As he took the list from Grandma Julia he saw words he did not understand, with lots of accent marks. He handed it back to her, and said he was sorry he just did not know what the words meant! Eventually she got her shopping done, and we took her back home to Bay Bridge where she would soon be cooking dinner!

While this is not the exact list, it looked something like this:

English translation is:

eggs

bread

chicken

salt

milk

butter

chicken soup

She gave us a very fond memory to recall so many years later!

 

Two August Koegles in Sandusky, Ohio

 Recently I encountered a tombstone for Mr. and Mrs. August M. Koegle at Sandusky’s Oakland Cemetery.

When I was researching the Koegle family, I learned that there were two men named August Koegle, both born about 1850 in Germany, and both buried at Oakland Cemetery! One Mr. August Koegle has a tombstone, and the other has no stone marking his grave site.

In the 1880 United States Census, August M. Koegle was listed as “Gus.” He and his wife Louisa and several children resided on Jackson Street. The other August Koegle  lived on Camp Street in the 1880 Census, with his wife and three children.

Obituaries for each of these individuals helped to learn more about them. August M. Koegle, who was connected with a dry goods business for many years, died in 1909. His obituary appeared in the Sandusky Register on December 10, 1909.

The other August Koegle died in a hospital in Toledo, Ohio in 1926. His obituary was in the Sandusky Register of October 20, 1926.

While there is no tombstone for the August Koegle who passed away in 1926, there is a tombstone in the North Ridge section of Oakland Cemetery for his young daughter who died in 1899.

Records in FamilySearch indicate that the two August Koegles are mostly likely first cousins. 

Bernard McCormick was related to the Irish Tenor John McCormack

Bernard McCormick was born in Ireland in the 1830s. He and his wife, the former Catharine McGory emigrated to the United States in the 1850s. By 1880, the McCormick family was residing in Kelleys Island, Erie County, Ohio, where Bernard was employed as a quarry man. The family included seven children. Mrs. Catharine McGoryMcCormick died in 1897, and she was buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery in Sandusky, Ohio. By 1900, Bernard was residing in Sandusky, Ohio with two of his children.

According to U.S. Census records, Bernard McCormick moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where he lived with his daughter Sarah Burke. After Mr. Burke passed away, Sarah married Henry Mount. On October 26, 1925, Bernard McCormick died in Cleveland, Ohio. His remains were brought to Sandusky, Ohio, for burial at St. Joseph's Cemetery. An article from the Sandusky Star Journal of October 28, 1925 reported that Bernard  McCormick was the cousin of the father of well known Irish tenor John McCormack.

Many of your ancestors probably listened to John McCormack on the radio or saw him in movies. YouTube features many songs by John McCormack. Below are just a few.

When Irish Eyes are Smiling

The Kerry Dance

Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms

It's a Long Way to Tipperary

To learn more about John McCormack see:

Article about John McCormack from Brittanica.Com

 Grave of John McCormack

John McCormack on Bing Crosby Radio Program

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.