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Whalen, Jesse [McA.] |
43, Widowed |
b. Iowa |
[daughter of George McA.] |
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[her father] |
McAninch, George |
b. Pennsylvania |
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[her mother |
Watson, Mary |
b. Pennsylvania |
married in Iowa |
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Whalen, Gertrude |
25, Single |
b. South Dakota |
[grand-daughter of George] |
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[her father] |
Whalen, Stanley |
b. Iowa |
[Stanley has already died] |
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[her mother] |
McAninch, Jesse |
b. Iowa |
married “Hawarden, Iowa” |
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6. “Mary Elizabeth” -- Clearly, the same lady (Henry’s wife, and George’s mother) is listed as both “Mary” and “Elizabeth”, in different records, so, although she apparently used “Elizabeth” herself (and “Betsey”), her full given name was probably “Mary Elizabeth”, a common given-name pair. |
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Many years later, another McAninch male was also reported to have married “Mary Bowser”, in an article published in a new 1976 “Bi-Centennial” county history book, Riley County, Kansas [Note 6] |
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“Lewis J. McAninch, son of William and Mary (Bowser) McAninch, grandson of John and Emily McAninch, was born 5 April 1822, Clarion County, PA, died 7 Dec. 1893, buried Carnahan Creek Cemetery. In 1843 in Sligo, PA, he married Jennie Myers, born 25 Aug 1820, Clarion County, PA, died 28 Mar. 1912, Bolivar, MO, buried Carnahan Creek Cemetery. They settled in Manhattan Twp., Riley Co., in 1883.” [Note 7] |
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However, Lewis James McAninch’s parents are William and Isabel (Hopkins) McAninch, not “William and Mary (Bowser) McAninch”. |
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“William [McAninch], grandfather of Henry H. [Henry Hamilton McAninch], came from the vicinity of Brady's bend, Armstrong county, and … settled in Beaver township [Jefferson County] … His wife, whose maiden name was Isabel Hopkins, was of Scotch ancestry, and their marriage took place in Armstrong county” [Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, William James McKnight, M.D.,] [J. H. Beers & Company, Chicago, 1917; “Henry H. McAninch” article, Vol. II, pgs.574-575] |
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William McAninch, born ca.1782-1883, is believed to be the first son of John McAninch, 1790 Census, Westmoreland County, and early pioneer in Armstrong County, western Pennsylvania. The marriage of Isabel Hopkins, daughter of Matthew and Emily (Crownover) Hopkins, and William McAninch has also been reported as ca. 1803, near Greensburg, Westmoreland County. |
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Bowser is a common name in that area, and there were probably many ‘Mary Bowser’s, so, could William have had a second marriage, to [another] Mary Bowser? No -- William died 19 Jan. 1864, Clover Twp., Jefferson Co. Penn., before Isabel, who died later that same year, 1864. |
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It was actually Henry McAninch, William’s younger brother, who married Elizabeth Bowser. |
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William and Isabel (Hopkins) McAninch’s son, Lewis James McAninch, and his wife Jennie (Myers), moved to Riley County, Kansas, in 1883, to be near their son, Robert Glen McAninch, and his family. At that time, Henry and (Mary) Elizabeth (Bowser) McAninch were living in Iowa, and it is easy to believe that they were all in contact with each other, and they probably shared their knowledge of the family history and stories with each other, and with their children. |
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McAninch Family History NL, IX -3 July 2001 Copyright Frank McAninch page 2001-23 |