Mary Jane (Corey) Stowell (1840 - 1916)

Born 25 Jul 1840 in Kosciusko County, Indiana, USA

Ancestors

Wife of William Ashley Sunday — married 18 Oct 1856 in Nevada, Story, Iowa, United States

Wife of J. Matthew Heizer — married 11 Aug 1864 in Story County, Iowa, USA

Wife of George Edgar Stowell — married 3 Sep 1875 in Boone, Iowa, USA

Descendants

Died 25 Jun 1916 at age 75 in Winona Lake in Kosciusko County, Indiana, USA

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Biography

William Sunday was a bricklayer who worked his way to Iowa, where he married Mary Jane Corey, daughter of "Squire" Martin Corey, a local farmer, miller, blacksmith, and wheelwright. William Sunday enlisted in the Iowa Twenty-Third Volunteer Infantry on August 14, 1862. He died four months later of pneumonia at an army camp in Patterson, Missouri, five weeks after the birth of his youngest son, William Ashley. Mary Jane Sunday and her children moved in with her parents for a few years, and young Billy became close to his grandparents and especially his grandmother. Mary Jane Sunday later remarried, but her second husband soon deserted the family.

When Billy Sunday was ten years old, his impoverished mother sent him and an older brother to the Soldiers' Orphans Home in Glenwood, Iowa, and later to the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa.

Sources

"United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8LM-537 : 19 March 2020), Mary Sunday in entry for William Sunday, 1860.

"Kansas State Census, 1895", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QL8J-YVV1 : 12 March 2020), M J Stowell in entry for Geo E Stowell, 1895.

Billy Sunday's WIkipedia's encyclopedia entry. Click here to see it: [1]

Find A Grave: Memorial #21181683

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Dave McNally for creating Corey-1338 on 4 Nov 2017. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Dave and others.