Barbara Jean McCarthy (1927 - 1950)

Born 12 Aug 1927 in Aspen, Pitkin, Colorado, USA

Wife of Andrew Gunsolus — married 19 Sep 1945 in Reno, Washoe, Nevada, USA

Died 5 Jun 1950 at age 22 in Dillard, Douglas, Oregon, USA

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Biography

Barbara Jean McCarthy

Daughter of James Jeremiah McCarthy and Edith Evelena Johnson

BIRTH AND DEATH:

Birth Date: 12 Aug 1927, per obituary

Birth Place: Aspen, Pitkin, Colorado, per obituary

Death Date: 5 Jun 1950, per obituary

Death Place: Dillard, Douglas, Oregon, per obituary

... note: Dillard is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Oregon

Burial: Civil Bend Cemetery, Winston, Douglas Co., OR

EVIDENCE OF PARENTS:

Barbara has childhood census with parents & siblings

Barbara's obituary names her mother as "Mrs. Edith E. Morris, of Dillard"

Barbara's obituary also name siblings Eunice & James

Named as "Mrs. Barbara Christensen" in her father's 1944 newspaper clipping

Parents marriage record: James J Mccarthy, Edith Johnson, m. 1925, Colorado

Sources

BURIAL:

Find A Grave Memorial 111835901 (gravestone pictured)

Inscription: Jean, Barbara Gunsolus

Birth: 1926

Death: 1950

Burial: Civil Bend Cemetery, Winston, Douglas County, Oregon, USA

Created by: Cross-Philpott

Added: 5 Jun 2013

OBITUARY:

Newspaper: The News-Review (Roseburg, Oregon)

Published: 7 Jun 1950, Wednesday, Page 2

Mrs. Andrew Gunsolus Of Dillard Passes Away.

Mrs. Andrew (Barbara Jean) Gunsolus, 22, resident of Dillard for the past four years, died at her home Monday following a prolonged period of illness. She was born at Aspen, Colo., Aug. 12, 1927 and married to Andrew Gunsolus at Reno, Nev., on Sept. 19, 1945. She came to Dillard from California about 1946.

Surviving are the widower, Andrew Gunsolos, a son, Kenneth, and a daughter, Sharon; her mother, Mrs. Edith E. Morris; a sister, Mrs. Eunice Berniece Frost and a brother, James McCarthy Jr. all of Dillard.

Funeral services will be held in the chapel of the Long & Orr mortuary Friday, June 9, at 2 p.m. with the Rev. W. W. Appleyard of Dillard Methodist church officiating. Concluding services and interment will follow in Civil Bend cemetery.

MARRIAGE(1):

Ancestry.com. Carson City, Nevada, Marriage Index, 1855-1985

Name: George Preston Aka Christensen

Marriage Date: 10 Jul 1942

Marriage Place: Carson City, Nevada, USA

Spouse: Barbara Jean McCarthy

Marriage Description: Carson

Marriage Record Number: 39721836

MARRIAGE(2):

Groom: Andrew Gunsolus, son of Jasper Isaac Gunsolus and Nora Nina Martin

Bride: Barbara J McCarthy, daughter of James J McCarthy and Edith E Johnson

Marriage Date: 19 Sep 1945, Reno, Washoe, Nevada, per Barbara's obituary

CENSUS:

1940 census: Grass Valley, Nevada, California

James J McCarthy ............ 41 ... WI

Edith E McCarthy ............ 36 ... CO

Barbara Jean McCarthy .. 13 ... CO <--------

Eunice B McCarthy ......... 10 ... NM

James McCarthy ................ 2 ... CO

NEWSPAPER CLIPPING - 1944 - FATHER:

Newspaper: Sacramento Bee (California)

Published: Friday, April 07, 1944, Page 11

Missing Mining Man Is Found Dead In Car.

Nevada City (Nevada Co.), April 7. - The mystery of the disappearance last March 26th of James Jeremiah MaCarthy, 45, of Grass Valley, watchman of the Lava Cap Mine, was solved late yesterday with the discovery of his body by Edward Addington of Nevada City. The later came upon the McCarthy car while searching for firewood.

Coroner Alvah Hooper and Deputy Sheriff Carl Larsen, who investigated, said McCarthy had gone to considerable trouble in preparing for his death. they said he had tightly closed the car's windows and cut a hold in the rear seat through which he led a section of hose, attached at the other end to the motor's exhaust pipe.

Started Motor, Waited for Death.

Then, they said, McCarthy apparently started the motor, composed himself comfortably on the rear seat and waited for death.

The sheriff's office revealed McCarthy's wife, Mrs. Edith McCarthy, an employe at Camp Beale, reported on March 27th he was missing.

The woman said her husband met her on the afternoon of March 26th when her bus arrived from Camp Beale, drove her home in the family car and a few minutes afterward call to her through the window and said; "I'm leaving."

MCCarthy Feared Operation.

McCarthy was a native of Wisconsin, but had resided in Grass Valley for five years. He suffered an injury to his back while employed at the Lava Cap Mine in 1939 and since then has been employed as a watchmen. Recently he had been despondent because of the necessity for an operation upon his back.

Besides his wife McCarthy leaves his daughters, Mrs. Barbara Christensen and Miss Bernice McCarthy, and a son, James McCarthy, Jr., all of Grass Valley.