ID: I10
Name: Mary R. SULLIVAN
Given Name: Mary R.
Surname: Sullivan
Sex: F
Change Date: 6 JUL 2010
Note:
After her husband Robert died, Mary continued to run the family saloon and billiard parlor, located at 137 25th Street, until the first decade of the 1900s. Following her son Arthur's death, she moved to the family's property at 31st Street and Belmont and ran a boarding house with her daughter-in-law Ella Manley Sherry. She was close to Ruth Scott, her sister Ellen's granddaughter. Ruth remembers stories "Aunt Mamie" told her about growing up in West Virginia during the Civil War near a place called Sweetwater. As girls, Mary and her sisters would take food to soldiers in the field.
Birth: 21 JUN 1857 in Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV
Note: According to info from her daughter Mary's records with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, she was born in Wheeling, WV.
Census: JUN 1870 Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV
Census: JUN 1880 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Event:
Directory 1888/9 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Event:
Directory 1892/3 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Census: JUN 1900 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Census: APR 1910 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Event:
Directory 1913/4 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Note: Mary is listed as running a boarding/lodging house at 3082 Belmont Street.
Census: JAN 1920 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Census: APR 1930 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Death: of of arteriosclerosis and hypertension 10 OCT 1932 in Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Note: According to her obituary, she had been seriously ill for seven weeks.
Event: the Daily Times
Obituary 12 OCT 1932 Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
Burial: 13 OCT 1932 Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Wheeling, Ohio Co., WV
Father: Dennis SULLIVAN b: ABT 1827 in Ireland
Mother: Ellen O'CONNELL b: 1832 in Ireland
Marriage 1
Robert Henry SHERRY b: 21 SEP 1853 in Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
- Married:
20 OCT 1874
in Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH
- Note: The marriage was celebrated on July 7, 1875 at St. John's Church and a reception with 150 people was held that evening at the house of Ellen Shanley, Mary's mother.
Children
Mary Blanche SHERRY b: 17 JUL 1876 in Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH Arthur William SHERRY b: 13 MAY 1878 in Bellaire, Belmont Co., OH | |