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Mary McTigue Pollard
1838 – Mar 1894
| Birth | 1838 |
| Death | Mar 1894 |
| Cemetery | Silver City Cemetery Silver City , Lyon County , Nevada , USA |
| Added by | Ruth Miller on 05 Jan 2018 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146332381 |
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Mary was the wife of John McTigue who was born 1830 Ireland. She died in March 1894 in San Francisco, CA, !880 Census Inhabitants in Gold Hill, Storey County, NV 6/15/1880 Lists Mary McTigue (age 39, b. Ireland), Widowed, keeping house, home in Gold Hill, Storey Co. NV; Edwin McTigue (age 18, b. CA) son, Engineer; Franklin McTigue (age 16, b. CA), son; Mary McTigue (age 14, b. CA), daughter; William McTigue (age 9, b. CA), son; JOSEPHINE MCTIGUE (age 5, b. NV), daughter. Plus Lodger, F. Brown (age 32, b. Ireland) mining. John was killed in the Black Hills, South Dakota on 28 Feb 1878. The following article was published in the Territorial Enterprise, Virginia City, Nevada: "KILLED IN THE BLACK HILLS~JOHN MCTIGUE, an old resident of Silver City, and first President of the Miner's Union in that town, was killed at Lead City, Black Hills, on the 25th of this month. He was quarreling with a man named Wadsworth over a claim, when the latter emptied the contents of a shotgun into his bowels, causing instant death. After her husbands death, Mary married widower, Amos Addison Pollard on 23 November 1884, Silver City, Nevada. Pollard died 01 Oct 1900 in Silver City and is buried in the El Dorado Public Cemetery, El Dorado, CA. Mary died in San Francisco in March 1894 (aged 55~56) and is buried in Silver City, NV. The San Francisco Newspaper Article on this memorial tells of Mary's death. CHILDREN OF JOHN AND MARY MCTIGUE: 1. Caroline Ann “Carrie” McTigue 1859 Santa Rosa, CA~1937 Los Angeles, CA 2. Edwin McTigue 1861~1900 3. Franklin McTigue 1863 4. Mamie A.. McTigue 1865~1888 5. William McTigue 1870 6. Josephine Henriette McTigue (Blair) 1874 Gold Hill, NY~1910 Courtland, AZ (Source: Blair/McTigue Family History by great granddaughter, Ruth I. Blair Miller)
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