Summary
Mary McDonough is identified in her daughter Clementine’s 1972 letter as the wife of Owen McCauley and mother of Clementine. She remained on Beaver Island while Owen was away with the Squaw Island light crew because she was pregnant with Clementine.1
The letter says Mary died before Owen’s September 1958 death and was buried with him in St. Joseph, but it does not give her death date or establish a complete civil identity.
Open questions
- What civil, parish, cemetery, or obituary records identify Mary McDonough and her dates?
- Is she connected to any other McDonough records in the held island corpus?
See also
- Squaw Island Light-Crew Tragedy (1900)
- Owen J. McCauley (1900 Squaw Island tragedy survivor)
- Clementine McCauley (1972 Squaw Island family account)
Footnotes
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Clementine McCauley letter reprinted in Beaver Beacon, January 1972, “Squaw Island Story, Part II.” ↩
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, January 1972, “Squaw Island Story, Part II.”Clementine McCauley says her father Owen McCauley married Mary McDonough in June 1899, that Mary remained on Beaver Island while pregnant, and that she died before Owen’s September 1958 death.