Item Detail
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McCullough, Margarett
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1822-1915
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MSS SC 1103
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Biography
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Margarett McCullough was born October 15, 1822 in Centerville, DE to John McCullough and Eliza Ann Stilley. Margarett married John Steele Carpenter on September 19, 1844. They had four children; Erastus S., Elizabeth, James D. and John Stilley. After eight years of marriage John died September 30, 1852 following a long illness. Margarett then moved her family into the home of her parents until John's sister Hannah and her husband Joseph Crossgrive arranged for her and her children to cross the plains with them to Utah. The families arrived in Salt Lake City in 1857. Margarett was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on August 1, 1858. She married John Gheen on August 7, 1858. They had a daughter named Margarett Louisa. John was later found dead in a vacant lot. After his death Margarett married Robert Boyd Stewart, a man who had been boarding in her home and a former member of the Mormon Battalion. Margarett died on December 4, 1915 in Glendale, Utah.
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This collection contains the biographies of the James Leithead Family. Each biography consists of copied pages and many include pictures of the subjects and of their families. Also included in the collection are family group sheets providing vital records for the families. Salome Hunter, a descendent of James and the compiler of many of the histories is a descendant of Margaretts, but it is unclear how Margaret relates to James Leithead. Information on Margarett is contained in a half page history of her life which is stapled in between pages of a sketch of Deborah Lamoreaux Leithead's life. Margarett's sketch is short but contains most of her vital information excluding her birth and death dates. It tells the interesting story of how her second husband John Gheen came home one day, put on his belt and six shooter and then left the house. He was found later shot to death. Margarett never learned the details of her husband's death although Robert Boyd Stewart, who she married, searched all he could for John's foe.
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