Mary Ann Colvin

Mary Ann Pyle was Pennsylvania Dutch. She was short and heavy set. She was illiterate. Read more...

Custom Field:<_FA#> 5-21

Custom Field:<_FA#> 625 Wagner, Fort Wayne, IN

Custom Field:<_FA#> bur: Lindenwood Cemty, Fort Wayne, IN

REFN: 5-21

Obituary: "Mrs. Mary Ann Colvin, widow of John R. Colvin died at 5:30

o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of her son, Joseph Colvin. 625

Wagner St. aged 84 yearsold. She was born in Grant County, Ind. June

27, 1829 and has lived in Ft.Wayne for the last 25 years. Her husband

died 35 years ago. She is survivedby 4 sons and 2 daughters. Henry of

Ney, Ohio, Albert of Meade, Kansas, Elbert & Joseph of Ft. Wayne. Mrs.

James Fulmer, Roanoke, Ind., Mrs. D. W. Coolman (Aunt Catherine) Colvin,

Calif. Two sisters Mrs. Rebecca Scharder, Greentown, Ind. and Mrs. Sarah

Havnes, Fairmont, Ind. 17 grandchildren, 21 greatgrandchildren."

"I remember Uncle Joe Colvin. My great grandmother, Mary AnnColvin,

lived with Uncle Joe and Aunt Ella in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. My mother, Jim

and I visited them. They had children born dead or soon after birth, but

none that lived. I couldn't stand Aunt Ella. She made Grandma stay

upstairs afraid she'd dirty her house. She sewed carpet rags."

Source: Ethel Estelle Davenport, 1979 statement

"Henry Colvin's mother was Pennsylvania Dutch,a short, heavy set woman.

She couldn't read or write. (Many couldn't in those days--especially

women.) Her husband wanted to teach her, but she thoughtshe didn't have

time to study. (She regretted this in later life. She'd have me and my

sisters read things under pictures she'd looked at, when we'd goto see

her.) She was a good house wife and mother and did lots of work (women

had to in those days).

Their children, Henry, Bert, duplicates of their mother especially in

build, Joe and Katheryn tall and stately like their father (quite

aristocratic). They may have had other children. These I know of Joe,

we considered wealthy, lived in Ft. Wayne, and there is where we visited

their mother (my great grandmother) and she died there. Aunt Kate (as

mother called her) (Katherine Coolman) lived in California (well to do).

She visited us two different times and was planning to come again when

she had a stroke and soon passed away on April 27, 1959. She was 93

years, 6 months, a delightful and dignified lady. We loved her. She had

a daughter and son stillliving, I've never met."

Source: letter from Nellie Cain Malott

(I wonder ifMary Ann Pyle had a sister named Mary. Nellie Malott found

a record of a Mary S. Pyle, born July 27, 1827, and died August 25, 1973

(1873?). Or this may have been some other relative. I wonder if this

was a twin sister of MaryAnn Pyle. If not, I think Mary Ann must have

been born June 27, 1827, instead of July 27, 1829.)

The following is a reference from the 1830 Indiana Censusindex:

Pyle, Jessie Fran 304 No Twp L

A Mr. J. M. Pyle was a minister at theChurch of Christ, Jefferson

Township (Whitley County, Indiana)

Above sources were given to me by Dorothy Estelle

According to chuch records Mary A. Colvin wife of John R., was a charter

member of the West Creighton Avenue Church (Disciples of Christ), having

joined the church in 1896. The church is at thecorner of Creighton and

Miner Streets, one block east of Broadway. They have no record of when

she left the church, but she was included in printed membership

directories in 1898 and 1905. They had two differant address for her:71

Wagner & 103 Spy Run. It seems that these addresses are on the old

numbering system.

According to the 1850 Indiana Federal Census Mary Ann was bornin Ohio

and that she was 22 years of age making her being born in 1822.

She is named in the

Index to the Extract of the Membership Records

of the West Creighton Avenue Christian Church of Fort Wayne, Ind. 1896-1998

• Residence: 1850 - Taylor, Howard, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 1860 - Jefferson Township, Whitley, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 1870 - Union Township, Huntington, Indiana, United States
• Residence: 1910 - Fort Wayne Ward 2, Allen, Indiana, United States
  • Reference: FamilySearch Family Tree - SmartCopy: Feb 9 2021, 12:56:47 UTC
• Residence: 1860 - Jefferson Township, Whitley, Indiana, USA
  • Reference: 1860 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Feb 9 2021, 20:59:36 UTC
• Residence: 1850 - Taylor, Howard, Indiana, USA
  • Reference: 1850 United States Federal Census - SmartCopy: Feb 9 2021, 21:00:56 UTC
• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Feb 10 2021, 0:11:13 UTC