Margaret (Fox) Rommel (1841)

Born 22 Feb 1841 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Descendants

Biography

Mr. (John Henry) Rommel married, November 23, 1862, Margaret Fox, born at South Side, Pittsburgh, February 22, 1841, a daughter of Peter and Anna Mary (Coleman) Fox, both born in Bavaria, Germany, and emigrated to this country in 1833, coming to Pittsburgh, where he died in 1855 at the age of forty-nine years, and she died in 1872, at the age of sixty-nine years. They had children : Gregory, Margaret, Anna Mary, mentioned above. Mr. Fox was a labor boss in McKnights Mill at Pittsburgh, was a Whig in politics, and a member of the Catholic Church. Mr. and Mrs. Rommel had children: 1. Mary, born in 1864, died in 1910; she married Isaac Norris, and had children: Alpha, Bessie, Beatrice, John, Mildred, Margaret, Winifred, Dorothea, Chester; Beatrice married Ellis Lee, of Carnegie, and has children : Edward, Dorothy, Ellis. 2. Lizzie, born in 1869; is sacristy girl in the Catholic Church at Glassport. 3. Harry, died at the age of six months. 4. Harry, born in 1872 ; manager in the factory of the United States Glass Works at Glassport ; married Gertrude Barbetta, a niece of Mrs. Russell, and has children : Harriet, Frank, Margaret, Elizabeth. 5. Charles, born in 1876, died in 1878. 6. Charles, born September 14, 1880; a glass worker; unmarried.

Sources

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, p. 881-83)