PIERCE, Margaret (Tracy)
Date of death: 6 Mar 1897 – Johnson County, Indiana
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 12, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 35, page 6 column 4
FROM OVER THE COUNTY.
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GREENWOOD.
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Mrs. Margaret Pierce, wife of Russel Pierce, aged 83, was buried here last Sabbath afternoon.
The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 19, 1897,
Volume XXXVII Number 36, page 3 column 6
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OBITUARY.
Margaret Tracy was born in Kentucky, November 11, 1815 [sic], and came to Johnson county with her parents in 1828. Her father entered the land on which the town of Whiteland is built. Of her father’s family three remain: John Tracy, who will be 90 years old April 1; Mrs. Elizabeth Webb, of Marion, Iowa, born 1819, and Capt. Matthew J. Webb. She was married to Joel R. Pierce, March 1, 1848. To this union were born four children, of whom only one survives. She united with the Baptist church when she was 14 years old, but when she came to Greenwood became a member of the Christian church. For many years she was so greatly afflicted that she could not attend church anywhere. She departed this life March 6, 1897. Funeral services were held at the M. E. church. She was a loving companion, a devoted mother, a loving sister and a kind neighbor. Though we miss her presence here, we know she is sweetly resting in her eternal home.
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Link to Margaret (Tracy) Pierce’s grave
Notes: Indiana State Library Genealogy Database; Marriages through 1850 records that Joel R. Pierce married Margaret Tracy on 29 Feb 1848 in Johnson County.
The 1850 U.S. Census for Pleasant, Johnson County, Indiana records twenty-two-year-old, Kentucky-born farmer Joel R. Pierce, his twenty-five-year-old, Kentucky-born wife, Margaret [Tracy] Pierce (making her birth year 1825 not 1815), their one-year-old, Indiana-born daughter, Sarah J. and eighteen-year-old, Kentucky-born Mathew Tracy, who is probably Margaret’s brother.
Submitted by Mark McCrady, Cathea Curry and Lois Johnson