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About Mary Sauntry
From AURORA COUNTY SOUTH DAKOTA
ROBEY CEMETERY
Located in Washington township, 14 miles south and 4 miles west of White Lake.
Robey Cemetery, St. Willibrord Robey Catholic Church.
Sauntry, Mary, born 1858, died 1939
From Phil Sauntry:
Mary Campbell Sauntry, 11/27/1856 born in Maghery, County Armagh, North Ireland. 12/29/39 died in Kalispell, Mont. U.S.A. lived 83 years. Immigrated to U.S. in 1876
Mary Campbell had three uncles on her Mother's side; the O’Hagan’s were schoolmasters and one was an Attorney at Law. She had a good education. Several of her uncles, including her Uncle John O'Hagan, had immigrated to America and he came west and homesteaded a good 160 acre piece of land in Cherokee County, Iowa.
In 1876 a neighbor girl and Mary got passage on a ship sailing to New York from Belfast and after a two-week stormy trip, landed in N.Y. Mary and her friend were not off the gangplank, when a well-dressed New England Lady beckoned to Mary and she explained that her daughter ran a boarding house in Washington, D.C. and needed a maid; that she would take Mary to her home in Brooklyn until her daughter could come from Washington get her. It was not long until Mrs. Stockholm arrived and congratulated her mother for the Irish Girl she had selected for her. Mary stayed with Mrs. Stockholm in DC until she was married. (3 years later in 1879).
Immigrated to the US in 1876, sailing from Belfast to NY. Initially lived in Wash.DC for three years working as a maid. Following her marriage in 1879, moved to Cherokee, Iowa in the fall of 1880 where she had relatives. Later moved to South Dakota and homesteaded there.
From Mary Campbell Sauntry's written history (From Margaret Sauntry Redding):
(after arriving in Cherokee) Uncle Dan Campbell, Mother's brother, and Jerry (Jeremiah Sauntry), our dear old Dad, found good work with the Illinois Central Railroad in Cherokee, but South Dakota was calling Dad (Jeremiah) to bet his life, his son JT, 3, daughter, Mary (the author), 2, and baby son Patrick, nine months old, and Mother that he could prove upon and build a home on that South Dakota prairie. He won.
We travelled out from Cherokee, Iowa to Charles Mix County, South Dakota in a covered wagon and Mother often told how she nearly lost her girl at the ferryboat crossing at the Sioux River. We were in the wagon on the boat but Mother thought best for us to get out and sit on the flatboarrd. When the first jerk of the boat moving I ran off into the deepwater. But the good sailor boy was near and as he quickly caught me while my dress held me from sinking till he grabbed me and gave me back to my Mom. Our Mom often told of son JT being so surprised when he first wok up in the homestead cabin. He asked "Mom, why did we sleep in the hen house?"
Uncle Dan Cmpabell stayed with the Illinois Central RR Co. and when he was Division Supt. (about 1899) he wrote to Mom Sauntry that he wanted to see her, JT, and Mary and was sending a RR pass for we two to get our first train ride and come down to Cherokee, our birthplace. We had a tough wagon ride to Armour, South Dakota for Dad was taking two fat porkers in the back of the high wagon as he wanted the cash to give to we "childer" for our trip. From Armour, SD then to Cherokee, Iowa was our first Bit of Travel and it is still a pleasant memory. We two young pioneers with the eats that Mother had sent in that shoebox sure saw the towns, fields and paririe slip by and were seeing Cherokee, Iowa. Aunt Clare, Unlce Dan, John, Paul, Isabelle, Alice, Grace, and young Dan made our ife in their home a real thrill and the greatest blessing was the opportunity Aunt Clara offered me to stay with her to finish 8th grade year work in Roosevelt School near their home and help her at home. I loved that opportunity as that gave me an assurance to pass the Teacher's Examination which came up in the summer as I returned to Charles Mix County, SD only in my 14th year. The Supt. could not issue my certificate until I'd be 17 on the 10th. (?) Luck came my way when Kate Hishen said she was anxious to resign her school teaching job on the beginning fo February if I would come to teach in Geese Lake Township and I could stay at her home, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Simphen's. So it was God's will that I start teaching as soon as I passed my 17th birthday. I loved the 24 young grade shool pupils over there west of Geddes, South Dakota.
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Mary Sauntry's Timeline
| 1856 |
November 27, 1856
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Armagh, Maghery, Ireland
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| 1881 |
December 6, 1881
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Cherokee, Iowa, United States
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| 1883 |
1883
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Cherokee, Iowa, United States
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| 1884 |
October 16, 1884
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Cherokee, Iowa, United States
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| 1886 |
November 27, 1886
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South Dakota
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| 1888 |
December 1888
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| 1890 |
February 10, 1890
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South Dakota
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| 1892 |
March 1892
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| 1894 |
February 18, 1894
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South Dakota
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