Doctor Grandma

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James Agnew, great-grandfather. First marriage to Mary Caroline Gross produced 2 daughters, ANNIE and OLLITH LENORA.

Annie was born in 1865,

Ollie in 1867.

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Mary Caroline dies Oct. 7, 1874 and I have no idea where she is buried. There was a funeral service at the family residence, listed north of Oak St. on State St., which is now a business area, it looks like. The question is, was she buried on family property, in which case the grave is lost, OR where would a member of the 2nd Presbyterian church be buried in 1874? The church was an Underground RR stop & had some black members in the time of the Civil War.

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By 1879 he married my great-grandmother, Carrie Bybee who is 19 years his junior. They have 6 children with the last 2 being twins, one my grandfather John Wesley.

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Annie seems to never have married, or I can’t find much on her. (Go figure.)

There is one possible Annie Agnew from Indiana who married someone named James L Rothrock, but can’t find much on them to connect them for sure.

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Ollie married at the age of 48, to an Albert Joshua SIGMON.

Ollie was a stenographer at the age of 62, widowed and owned her home, which was valued at $6000.

By 1940, she is 72 & running it as a boarding house and it is valued at $3500. (effect of depression??)

Maybe she was a “Madam” who knows??

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I looked up the property, and, true to form for the Agnews, it’s an EMPTY lot!! There is a house on either side but no house at her address.

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Can’t find graves for any of them.

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It seems like Mary Caroline Gross’s family could have been Jewish, as her mom’s name was NAOMI and her father’s Solomon. Just clues but nothing definite. Mary was a member of the 2nd Presbyterian church that was the Underground RR stop.

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They are consistent that their father, my GGGrandfather James Agnew, was born in OHIO.