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Elizabeth Mahalia "Bushy" McWilliams |
Name: Weak Mackes
[Geo K Mackie]
[Weak Macker]
Age in 1910: 42
Estimated Birth Year: 1868
Birthplace: Scotland
Relation to Head of House: Head
Father's Birth Place: Scotland
Mother's Birth Place: Scotland
Spouse's Name: Flora Mackes
Home in 1910: Scammon Ward 2, Cherokee, Kansas
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Gender: Male
Year of immigration: 1891
[1871]
Household Members:
Name Age
Weak Mackes 42
Flora Mackes 34
Elizabeth Mackes 14
Martha Mackes 11
David Mackes 9
Geo H Mackes Jr. 5
Thomas J Mackes 1
Elizabeth Bush 54
Nera Dural 16
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Also recorded as Elizabeth Mahalia McWilliams
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From "Mackie History", Virginia French Mackie, July 1965:
"Charles Bush was a mining engineer, of German Ancestry. He and "Bushy" and their two little daughters lived in Leadville, Colorado, where he was an engineer for one of the silver mines.
"One evening, when he was coming home from work, a drunk staggered, shooting, from a tavern brawl on the opposite side of the street. One of the bullets ricichetted [ibid] and struck Charles Bush in the head, killing him instantly - dead at the age of thirty.
"After his death, "Bushy" stayed on in Leadville for a while and supported herself and her two little girls by operating a hotel. She knew the Tabors and Baby Doe Tabor.
"Bushy was a handsome woman and was afraid of nothing. She carried a revolver in the pocket of her petticoats when she lived in Leadville. But after a drunk tried to break into her home one night, she realized that Leadville was not a proper place to bring up her young daughters, and she brought them back to Neosho Falls, Kansas, about 1888, where some of her people lived.
"When George Kerr Mackie and Flora Elizabeth Bush were married in 1894, 'Bushy' lived with them and helped to bring up their six children, all of whom adored her. When her younger daughter, Evelyn, married John W. Mackie, younger brother of George Kerr Mackie, she spent much time with them in Scammon and in Pittsburg, Kansas, and helped to bring up their three children. It was a comfort to her that her two daughters had married two brothers and that her family was so closely united.
"She lived to see not only her grand-children, but her great-grand-children. She spent a year with David in Los Angeles when he was working there, and she often told me that it was one of the happiest years of her life. David's friends adored her and everyone called her 'Bushy'. She often visited Martha and Joe Daniels and their two daughters in Pelham, N.Y., and she visited us in New Haven. She was of Scotch-Irish parentage, and when she was almost 80, was still a handsome woman with snow white hair and deep blue eyes."
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VITAL STATS: 1856 Births, p 3 - Pulaski County, Kentucky
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Transcribed & Submitted by Valerie J. Davis, vdavis@blarg.net
Date: 15 May 1999
From Kentucky State Archives Film #994053: KY Birth, Marriage, and Death Records (1852-1910); Powell-Rowan Counties; Filmed Jan 1981 by The Division of Archives & Records, Frankfort, KY; Pulaski Co: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1878
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Family Index is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ky/pulaski/vitals.html
1856 Births; page 3
S/C = Sex/Condition (Alive or Dead)
Co = Color (White, Black, or Mulatto)
PC = Pulaski County, KY
(Scroll to the right for full place info)
p 11: "State of Kentucky Pulaski County Sct - I, William M. Fox, clerk of the county court for the county & state aforesaid do certify that the foregoing list of Births is truly & correctly copied from the original lists returned to my office, by the assessor and his assistants for the year 1857 ~ Given under my hand this 7th day of July 1857 ~ Will M. Fox Clk, Pulaski Co Ct"
Birth Date Child S/C Father/Owner Mother Co Birthplace Residence
24 Feb Mahala E. McWilliams F/A Benjn. McWilliams Mary Harness W PC
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[Kansas, Cherokee County, Roll 474 Book 1, Page 140]
Noted in the 1900 Federal Census as Elizabeth Bush, age 45, living in Mineral Twp., Cherokee Cty, KS with daughter Flora and son-in-law, George Kerr Mackie (and their family).
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1870 United States Federal Census
about Mahala E Mcwilliams Name: Mahala E Mcwilliams
Birth Year: abt 1856
Age in 1870: 14
Birthplace: Kentucky
Home in 1870: Neosho Falls, Woodson, Kansas
Race: White
Gender: Female
Post Office: Neosho Falls
Household Members: Name Age
Benjamin Mcwilliams 37
Mary Mcwilliams 37
Martha J Mcwilliams 17
Mahala E Mcwilliams 14
Rebecca F Mcwilliams 12
Sarah M Mcwilliams 8
Nancy E Mcwilliams 6
Charles E Mcwilliams 3
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[Kansas, CHEROKEE, Roll 434 Book 1, Page 234a ]
Noted in the 1910 Federal Census as Elizabeth Bush, age 54, living in Scammon, Cherokee Cty., KS, with daughter Flora and son-in-law George Kerr Mackie (and their family). [Clara] Evelyn Bush is also listed as living with them.
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[1920 U.S. Census • Kansas • Douglas • Lawrence • ED# 66 ]
Noted in the 1920 Federal Census as Elizabeth Bush, age 63, living in Lawrence, Douglas Cty., KS, with her daughter Flora and son-in-law, George K. Mackie (and their family).
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[1930 Federal Census - Kansas - Douglas - Wakarusa Twp. - ED 23-22]
Noted in the 1930 Federal Census as Elizabeth Bush, age 74, living in Wakarusa Twp., Douglas Cty., KS, with her widowed (George K. Mackie died in 1929) daughter Flora Mackie, and grandsons, Thomas & William Mackie.
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Kansas State Census Collection, 1855-1925
about Elizabeth Bush
Name: Elizabeth Bush
Census Date: 1 Mar 1885
Residence County: Woodson
Residence state: Kansas
Locality: Neosho Falls
Birth Location: Kentucky
Family Number: 2
Marital Status: Married
Gender: Female
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1860
Race: White
Line: 6
Roll: KS1885_142
Household Member(s):
Name Age
Etta Linsey 9
Elizabeth Bush 25
Flora Bush 9
Eva Bush 6
(noted as living next door to her parents, Benjamin and Mary McWilliams, and family)
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