I am distantly related to the Dawsons in Traverse City so I checked my Fillmore relative who had married John Dawson and discovered that his sister Margaret E. Dawson had married by 1900.
Margaret Ellen Dawson was born on 14 April 1871 in Blair
Township, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, the daughter of James Dawson and Ellen
Braham.[1]
On 12 June 1880, Margret E. Dawson lived with her parents
and siblings John H. and Benj. A. in Traverse Township. Her father was a farmer.[2]
Margaret was married on 10 July 1895 in Traverse City to
Henry Winifred Shane. Wiley K. Wright, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
conducted the ceremony, which was witnessed by John A. Dawson and Inez Dawson.[3]
On 11 June 1900, Winifred and Margaret Shane and their
daughters Ellen and Geneva, as well as a
male servant, lived in Elmwood Township, Leelanau County, Michigan. Margaret
reported she had been the mother of three children, with two living. Winifred
worked as a farmer.[4]
Margaret died on 28 July 1908 in Elmwood Township, Leelanau
County, Michigan from renal insufficiency. She was pregnant at the time.[5]
She was buried in Oakwood Catholic Cemetery in Traverse City.[6]
Her obituary appeared in a Traverse City newspaper:
DIED ON TUESDAY
MRS. WINFIELD SHANE PASSED AWAY
In Addition to her Husband, She Leaves Four Daughters- Funeral Services
Wednesday.
Mrs. Margaret Shane, wife of Winfield Shane, a brother of Thomas Shane of this
city, died at her home in Elmwood township, four miles west of the city on the
County Line road, at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday after a two weeks' illness, a
complication of diseases being the cause.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Shane leaves four children, Ellen, Geneva,
Gladys and Margaret to mourn for her. Her mother, Mrs. Dawson and a brother,
John Dawson, are also left.
Mrs. Chase was well known in her neighborhood and all with whom she had an
acquaintance, were her friends, so that her death causes more than the usual
amount of sadness. She was born in Grand Traverse county and 13 years ago, she
was united marriage to Winfield Shabe.
Mrs. Shane was a faithful member of the Immaculate Concepcion church and there
the funeral services were held Wednesday morning at 10 the Rev. Fr. Sheehan
officiating. Burial in the Catholic cemetery.[7]
[1]
Margaret E. Dawson entry, Michigan, U.S., Births and Christenings Index,
1867-1911, Ancestry.com.
[2]
James Dawson household, 1880 US census, Grand Traverse County, Michigan, population
schedule, Traverse, ED 82, page 8D, dwelling 394.
[3]
Shane-Dawson entry, Michigan, U.S., Marriage Records, 1867-1952, Ancestry.com.
[4]
Winifred Shane household, 1900 US census, Leelanau County, Michigan, population
schedule, Elmwood, ED 20, sheet 5A, dwelling 35.
[5]
Margaret Shane Certificate of Death, Michigan, U.S., Death Records, 1867-1952,
Ancestry.com.
[6]
Margaret E. Shane Memorial 74566475, Findagrave.com.
[7] Grand
Traverse Herald and Traverse Bay Eagle (Traverse City), 4 August 1908, page 1,
column 3.
