Person:Mary Kuhns (1)

Mary Kuhns
b.13 Mar 1806 Pennsylvania
  1. Leonard Kuhns - 1863
  2. Mary Kuhns1806 - 1869
  3. Joseph Kuhns1820 -
m. 10 Oct 1830
  1. Leonard Pershing1831 - 1905
  2. Peter Pershing1832 - 1864
  3. Elizabeth Pershing1835 - 1869
  4. David C. Pershing1838 - 1891
  5. Joseph Pershing1840 - 1905
  6. Levi Pershing1842 - 1843
  7. Abaline Pershing1843 - 1870
  8. Daniel Pershing1846 -
  9. Lydia J. Pershing1848 - 1871
  10. Lewis Pershing1850 - 1922
Facts and Events
Name[3][5][6] Mary Kuhns
Gender Female
Birth[1][4][6] 13 Mar 1806 Pennsylvania
Marriage 10 Oct 1830 Tuscarawas County, Ohioto Christian Pershing, Jr.
Census? 1860 Ragersville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United StatesAge 53
Residence? 1860 Ragersville, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States
Death[1][6] 13 Mar 1869 Urbana, Wabash, Indiana, United States
Burial[1][7] Urbana, Wabash, Indiana, United StatesUrbana Cemetery
Probate? 1869 Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States

Mary Kuhns was the second wife of CHRISTIAN PERSHING, Jr. Her maiden name could have been KUNTZ?

Robert MacPherson has her birth: 13 MAY 1805. Ernie Wheaton has her birth: 1804.

After CHRISTIAN's first wife died in 1829, he went back to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1830 to find a new wife.

As with his first wife, Christian had 10 more children with Mary.

As noted elsewhere on WeRelate, James Haupert lists Mary's husband, Christian, as being buried in the Laketon Cemetery, in Wabash County. One has no idea as to how he could have come up with that, as it seems that Mary's husband never traveled to Indiana, and had indeed died in Tuscarawas County. Ernie Wheaton has a picture of Christian's stone, adjacent to his first wife, in Shanesville, Ohio (now Sugar Creek). It seems that Christian's wife, following the death of her husband, then left Tuscarawas County, to join three of her daughters in Wabash County. James's index shows Mary as being buried in the Urbana Cemetery, but no stone has been found.

The next few years after the death of Christian, was a very tragic period in the life of his family. Christian died in 1867. Mary had not been in Indiana long, when she died in March of 1869. Her daughter Elizabeth (Karns) had died the month before, therefore compounding Mary's grief. Next, daughter Abby (Karns) died in June 1870. A year later daughter Lydia (Lawer) died in June of 1871.

--White Creek 14:15, 12 September 2012 (EDT)

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References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Haupert, James. St. Peter's Cemetery Records
    1978.
  2.   Edgar J. Pershing. The Pershing Family in America. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: George S. Ferguson Co., 1924).
  3. www.rootsweb.com.

    Robert MacPherson has different birth and death data for Mary:
    b. 13 May 1805
    d. 6 Apr 1869

  4. Woodward, Ronald L. Lagro Township Cemeteries. (Wabash, Indiana: C/S Printing (private), 2002)
    2002.
  5. Earnest Wheaton of Indianapolis, Indiana.
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 St. Peter's CHURCH Records.
  7. She was the only burial at Urbana with the Pershing surname.