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Margaret Edna Amsberry

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Name Margaret Edna Amsberry Born 29 Oct 1852 Southside, Mason, West Virginia Gender Female Died 17 May 1925 Mason City, Custer, Nebraska - Died of apoplexy
Margaret Edna Amsberry obituary Person ID I24 Mouchet-Roberts genealogy Last Modified 28 Nov 2018
Father Francis Everett Amsberry, b. 18 Jan 1824, d. 6 Aug 1897 (Age 73 years) Mother Lucy Caroline Beard, b. 12 Jan 1827, Bedford, Bedford, Virginia , d. 15 Oct 1915, Mason City, Custer, Nebraska
(Age 88 years)
Married 2 Mar 1848 Mason County, Virginia, United States [1]
Francis E Amsbury marraige to Lucy C Beard Family ID F1858 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 William Robert Jinks, b. 4 Dec 1848, Gallia County, Ohio, United States , d. 25 Dec 1888, Southside, Mason, West Virginia
(Age 40 years)
Married 26 Dec 1871 Mason, Mason, West Virginia, United States [2]
William Jinks marriage to Margaret Amsberry Children 1. Rose Alice Jinks, b. 16 Sep 1874, Southside, Mason, West Virginia , d. 11 Apr 1958, Hillsboro, Washington, Oregon
(Age 83 years)
2. Priscilla Jinks, b. 24 Mar 1873, d. Yes, date unknown 3. Cora M. Jinks, b. 13 Nov 1876, d. Yes, date unknown 4. George Robert Jinks, b. 29 Sep 1886, d. Yes, date unknown Last Modified 26 Feb 2021 Family ID F1765 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Nikolai Peterson Married 1896 Children 1. Lucy Baker, b. 17 Nov 1902 [Adopted] Last Modified 26 Feb 2021 Family ID F10844 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Photos Nikolai Peterson and Margaret Amsberry
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Notes - From an obituary transcribed on Ancestry.com, source unknown.
Margaret Edna Amsberry was born in Mason County, West Virginia, October 29, 1851 and died at 8:30 am, May 17, 1925 of apoplexy, being 72 years, 6 months and 19 days old.
Mrs. Peterson early in life joined the Primitive Baptist Church and ever held strong to that faith. She was married to Robert W. Jinks in 1872 and to this union were born Priscilla J. Caldwell, Brookston, Minnesota, Rose A. Keller of Grand Island, Cora M. Lamb and Robert G. Jinks, also of Brookston, Minnesota, and one child dying in infancy.
Having been bereaved of her husband in 1888, she moved with her family to Mason City, Nebraska and in 1896 she was united in marriage to Nikoli Peterson, who with an adopted daughter, Mrs. Lucy E. Blake of Brewster, Nebraska, and the children mentioned, besides many grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren are left to mourn her departure.
She also leaves four brothers; John A. of Mason City, James M. of Bend, Oregon, William D. of Alliance and Francis A. Amsberry of Broken Bow and five sisters; Martha Amsberry, Rosetta C. Greenlee, Laura J. Fisher, all of Mason City, Almira U. Amsberry of Berwyn and Ellie E. Coleman of Ballantine, Montana. A brother, Floyd M. Amsberry, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah E. Frazey, having passed on some years ago.
- From an obituary transcribed on Ancestry.com, source unknown.
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Sources - [S12105] West Virginia Marriages, image of original record at http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=567389&ImageNumber=29.
- [S12102] West Virginia Marriages, Actual image at http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=567390&ImageNumber=361.
- [S12105] West Virginia Marriages, image of original record at http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view2.aspx?FilmNumber=567389&ImageNumber=29.