Margaret K. Upperman

An article in the newspaper, Morning Hearld of Uniontown, Pennsylvania, dated July 7, 1948, reads as follows: DIES ON VACATION AT NEWELL'S GROVE: Friends are being received at the family residence for Mrs. Margaret Kennedy Upperman, Hiller, who died suddenly early yesterday while vacationing at Newell's Grove near Indian Head. She was 60 years old. Requiem High Mass will be sung at St. Peter's R.C. Church, Brownsville, at 9 a.m. with Rev. Fr. James A. Shay as celebrant. Burial will follow in Park Place Cemetery. She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Lloyd Wilson, West Leisening; Mrs. Sturgis Ohler, Hiller; and Mrs. George Haney, at home; one son, Joseph Francis, at home; three sisters, Mrs. Marie Kelly, Fairmont West Virginia; and Mrs. Nick Luke, Brownsville; two brothers, William Kennedy, Republic, and John, Brownsville, and six grandchildren.

According to the 1900 U.S. Federal Census, Margaret was born March, 1890, in Pennsylvania. She was the first child of James and Mary Kennedy to be born in America. Her older sister, Maria, was born in Ireland in May of 1885, and her older brother, William in January of 1887. After Margaret came Lizzie in September of 1891, Rosa in May of 1894, and Catherine in September of 1899. According to the census, James and Mary had given birth to 9 children, 7 of whom were still living. The family was listed in the census as follows:

James, 43, Mary, 38, Maria, 15, William, 13, Margaret, 10, Lizzie, 8, Rosa, 6, Jon, 3, and Catherine, 8 months old. They were living in North Union Township in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. James had come to America in 1888, Mary, Maria and William in 1889. James was working as a coal miner and the family was renting their home.

By the 1910 census, the family was living in Mariana, Washington County, Pennsylvania, and were listed as follows: James, 51, Mary, 49, Margaret, 21, Rose, 17, Catherine, 16, John, 13, and also living in the home were four boarders, Don Collins, 28, Thomas Dowson, 30, Pete Ryon, 26, and Sess Morgen, 27. James and May had been married 27 years. James was working as a fire boss in a coal mine, Mary as a cook in a boarding house, Margaret as a helper in the boarding house, and the boarders were working as riveters, a foreman and a house painter.