Mary Karper |
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| Mary Frances Karper was born in Alliance, Ohio on February 6,1856 to Frank and
Salomea (Kolbenschlag) Karper who came to America on January 11, 1855. Mary's parents and
older sister, Frances were born in Lindenberg, Bavaria. |
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She was born in the old Allen house built in 1838 in
Freedom (later Alliance) Ohio. When she was six months old the
family moved into a new brick house at 920 N. Union Ave. in
Alliance. Her father helped make the bricks and did the
carpentry work as well. The walls of soft brick were 14 inches
thick which kept the house cool in the summer and warm in the
winter.
Mary was just under six when her father left to fight in the Civil War. He returned when
she was seven in July of 1862 suffering from illness (varicose veins and
kidney disease) and fatigue associated with the Ohio
Volunteer Infantry actions and the Battle
of Shiloh. |
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She married Thomas Glasser in 1875 and bore him a son William (1878.) Thomas died in 1879
and she married Patrick Scanlon III sometime between 1880 and 1885. The had two children
Mary (1884) and Patrick Francis Scanlon IV (1886.) Her husband Pat died in 1899 at the age
of 61 and she and her young son Patrick moved in with her mother in the
Karper home (see the 1910 and 1920 census below). She lived with her son Patrick IV until her death on June 17,1939 at the age of 84.
She was blind the last seven years of her life and was confined
to bed for the last two years. She was an avid Cleveland Indians baseball fan and listened to all their games on the
radio. see 1880 census
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