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Margaret J Black     2nd great grand mother
b. 8 March 1846, d. 10 June 1925, #24941
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Name Variation		Margaret J Black was also found as Maggie Coggins.1
Birth	8 March 1846	Margaret J Black was born on 8 March 1846 at Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania. On 1900 census she shows as born March of 1846 in PA. Birth calculations from info given on 1860 census gives a birth date of about 1836 with birth place of Pennsylvania. 1900 and 1910 census indicate that she may have been born as late as 1846. On 1900 census she says that she was born in March 1846 in Pennsylvania. Death certificate gives 8 March 1846 as date and place as Gettysburg, PA. The death cert. says she was 79 years, 2 months and 2 days old. If born in March of 1846 she would be 79 years, 3 months, 2 days old.2,3
Cen1850	2 August 1850	Margaret J Black appears on the 1850 census of Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania as 3 years old, born in PA. Mother is not in household. There are 7 other children in the household. There is a LOTT family living next door and several other Black families in the county.4  Father  William Henry Black shows as William BLUCK, 43 years old born in Pennsylvannia. No wife, 8 children from 19 to 1 year old.. Working as a laborer and no land. Living next door to a LOTT family. Can read and write. Children are: Wilson 19 William G 17 Jane C 16 John F 9 Henry S or L 5 Mary G 11 (out of age order, reason??) Margaret 3 Matilda 1 There are several other BLACK's in the area, some of whom own land. James Black, 69 and wife Jane in res 4 on the same sheet as William. James owns his land and is a farmer. Two others in the household. This James could be William's father.
	1850	1850 There also is a Margaret Black, 4 years old, living with William Lott in Adams county. Need to establish who this Margaret is, or if it is our Maggie just recorded twice.5
CEN1860	6 July 1860	Margaret J Black appears on the 1860 census of Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois taken on 6 July 1860 Margaret shows on the 1860 census with father and step mother  as 24 years old, res 857, fam 798 on p112 Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois. I believe that she was 14 not 24.6
Marriage #1	28 September 1868	Margaret J Black married George H Dow on 28 September 1868 at Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois. This marriage is recorded in Vol7 Cert 12, Freeport, Stephenson, IL marriage records. No hard copy.7
Cen1870	23 June 1870	Margaret J Black appears on the 1870 census taken 23 June 1870 in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois as Maggie Dow, 23, born in PA., Wife of George Dow, 34, born in MA. They were living 3 residences from William and Adelia Black in the 1st Ward of Freeport city. This George Dow was a Patent Rights Dealer. Does that mean that he was a land salesman?? This information is consistent with Marguerite Erwin's idea that her name may have been DOW.8
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		This little house in Freeport, Illinois was the house where William Black and Adelia Jones raised their family.  It MAY also be the house in which Maggie Black Dow lived with her husband George Dow.  The numbers and street names have been changed in recent years and we can not be sure.  This photo was taken by Les Black about 1997.
CityDir	1872	Margaret J Black and George H Dow show on the 1872 City Directory of Freeport Illinois on the southeast corner of Oak and Walnut  . This house is still standing in 1997 but now the streets are Ordway and Walnut. It is a green two story house.
	17 June 1878	On 17 June 1878, her husband, George Dow, died of consumption, in Freeport, Illinois.9
	1880	Find 1880 Can not find Margaret on the 1880 census.  She is not in Lincoln twp of Ogle county, Illinois, where her second husband resided in 1880. Interesting note: In Lincoln township there is a Casey or Caskey family from PA living next door to a William Wilson family from PA. Could these people be related to Maggie's mother, Charlotte Wilson and possibly Maggie's brother's wife Eliza Caskey? She shoud be about 34 years old. Look for Margaret Black, Margaret Dow or Maggie Black, Maggie Dow.10
	19 January 1885	In January of 1885 her father, William Henry Black, died.11,12
Marriage #2	25 March 1885	Margaret J Black married Thomas J Coggins, son of Henry Coggins and Harriet Norton, on 25 March 1885 in Freeport at Illinois. On the marriage license she gives her name as Margaret Dow and age as 39 and states that she has been married before. Thomas Coggins states that he has been married before, also, and is 61 years old.13   Marriage certificate
Death	before 5 August 1890	Margaret's second husband, Thomas Coggins died before before 5 August 1890 at Illinois as Margaret applied for Widow's Pension on application # 429477, Cert # 370853 from Illinois on 5 Aug 1890.
	13 September 1899	Margaret is listed as an heir in the probate papers of her father, as Maggie Coggins. No address or age is given.12
Cen1900	1900	On the 1900 census she shows at 215 Douglas Street in Ward 1 of Freeport, Stephenson. Working in the household of T. Hughes as a housekeeper. Gives age as 54, single, and born in Pennsylvania in March of 1846. Both parents born in PA and she can read and write.2
Cen1910	19 April 1910	Margaret J Black shows on the U.S. Census for 1910 at Freeport, Stephenson county, Illinois. Census taken on 19 April 1910. She is working as a servant in The White Sanatarium operated by Dr. White. Name given as Margert J. Coggins. Says she is a widow and has never had any children. She is 63 years old and born in Pennsylvania, both parents born in Pennsylvania. Now she says that she can read but NOT write. P30, Supervisor Dist. #4, ED 94, Sheet 9A.14
Maggie's Photo Album  Click on Thumbnails		ca 1915 15 Maggie's death cert
Cen1920	1920	On the 1920 census she appears at Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois, ED 166, 2nd ward, Sheet 9A line 6, as Maggie Coggins. Gives age as 74, a widow, born in Illinois , but both parents born in PA. Speaks English and is not employed. She was NOT born in Illinois.16,17
Living	1921	She may have moved to Mt. Carroll about 1921 as her death certificate says that she had been living in Carroll county for 4 years and she died in 1925.
Occupation	1921	Margaret shows on the 1900 census as a housekeeper and in 1910 working in a sanitarium as a servant of some type.
Death	10 June 1925	Margaret J died on 10 June 1925 at Mt. Carroll,  Carroll county, Illinois at age 79.18
Burial	13 June 1925	She was buried on 13 June 1925 at City Cemetery in Freeport, Stephenson, Illinois.18
Education		On 1900 census she claims that she can read and write, but signed her marriage license in 1885 with an X, and in 1910 she says that she CAN NOT read or write. Therefore I assume that she really could not read or write.

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Compiler: Pomala Black

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