Mary Ann Pensinger

What can I say about Mary Ann? Her life was too short, as happened to too many young married  women of the early centuries on this earth. She was born in 1835, in Franklin County, PA and had many siblings. At age 4, she and her family migrated to Zanesville, Muskinghum County, Ohio. At age 16, she married James Mackey in Washington, Morrow County, Ohio. She and James had six children. The last two died as infants, in 1863 and 1864. Then, Mary died three months later on the 7th of April 1864, age 29. What she seems to have experienced in those few years of her life mostly had to do with moving great distances, giving birth, and witnessing death at close hand.

Sources: Census: 1850; 1860. Marriage certificate; Galion, Ohio city directories; birth records of the Mackey children.
Mary Ann Pensinger Mackey
Born: 12 Mar 1835 in ,Franklin, PA
Married: 11 May 1851 in Washington, Morrow, OH
Died: 7 Apr 1864 in Galion, Crawford, OH