Margaret (Dorsey) Fulks (1854 - 1925)

Born 1854 in Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Died Aug 1925 at about age 71 in Wakatomika, Coshocton, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Margaret was born in 1855. She is the daughter of Benjamin Dorsey and Martha McCann.

Margaret and Lyman were living in Washington Township, Coshocton county, in 1900^[1] and 1920.^[2]

Aged Resident of Dresden Vicinity Dies of Paralysis

Mrs. Margaret Fulks, 70, a native of Dresden, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ray Dean, of Wakatomika, at 1:30 o'clock Saturday morning from an illness of paralysis. She had been ill for the past several months.

Mrs. Fulks was born and reared and spent practically her entire life in the Dresden vicinity. She was a member of the Chalfant ME church and is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dean, three sons, _S Fulks of Mansfield, Carl E. of the home, Max M. Fulks of Chillicothe, two stepsons, Frank Fulks and Chester Fulks, both of Trinway, three brothers, Max Dorsey of Dresden, Samuel Dorsey, and Joseph Dorsey, both of Frazeysburg, eight grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. __ Porter of Hanover.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon from the late home with Rev. W_reck of Trinway in charge. Burial was made in the Dresden cemetery.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMCG-T8Y : accessed 24 October 2020), Margaret Fulks in household of Lyman Fulks, Bedford & Washington Township, Coshocton, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 2, sheet 6B, family 134, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,250.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDB4-W1V : accessed 24 October 2020), Margaret Fulks in household of Lyman Fulks, Washington, Coshocton, Ohio, United States; citing ED 51, sheet 1B, line 55, family 16, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1357; FHL microfilm 1,821,357.
3. ↑ "Aged Resident of Dresden Vicinity Dies of Paralysis." Zanesville Times Recorder (OH: 31 August 1925), p. 5.

• "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCGH-MD2 : 18 February 2021), Margt Dorsey in entry for Benjn Dorsey, 1860.