Leona Rowley (1892 - 1921)

Born 25 Feb 1892 in Juniata, Tuscola, Michigan, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Dennis J O'Brien Jr — married 19 Jan 1921 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

Died 28 Oct 1921 at age 29 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States

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Biography

Jennie was born in Juniata, Michigan in 1892, the daughter of Seymour Rowley and Lorena Bratt. In 1900, she lived with her family on their farm in Denmark Township, north of the village of Reese.^[1]In 1910, at the age of 18, she was living in a boarding house in Saginaw, working as a waitress.^[2]By 1920, she had moved to Detroit, where she lived with a young German woman and worked as a telephone operator at a dry cleaners.^[3]

In January, 1921, Jennie married Dennis O'Brien in Detroit. Dennis was employed as a chauffeur and Jennie as a telephone operator.^[4]She died in Detroit later that year, in October, of an infection following surgery.^[5]She is buried in Riverside Cemetery in Vassar.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9BL-3NH : accessed 28 February 2021), Jennie Rowley in household of Seymore Rowley, Denmark township, north side Reese village, Tuscola, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 108, sheet 2B, family 41, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,744.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLRT-N75 : accessed 28 February 2021), Jennie Rowley, Saginaw, Saginaw, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 48, sheet 13A, family 272, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 672; FHL microfilm 1,374,685.
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZ75-YBF : 2 February 2021), Jenny Rowley, 1920.
4. ↑ "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NQM4-TM4 : 18 February 2021), Dennis O'Brien and Leona J. Rowley, 19 Jan 1921; citing Marriage, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, , Citing Secretary of State, Department of Vital Records, Lansing; FHL microfilm 4032395.
5. ↑ "Michigan Death Certificates, 1921-1952," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFWR-3F1 : 13 March 2018), Jennie O'Brien, 28 Oct 1921; citing Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States, Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics, Lansing; FHL microfilm 1,972,959.
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 28 February 2021), memorial page for Jennie O'Brien (1892–Oct 1921), Find A Grave: Memorial #69434521, citing Riverside Cemetery, Vassar, Tuscola County, Michigan, USA ; Maintained by Joann Osgerby Geybels (contributor 46986938) .