Here we are, the last ancestor of 2014! I made it through three generations of my family!
Margret Susan Riley was born on April 2, 1852 in Franklin County, Missouri to Lewis Harrison Riley (1823-1863) and Anna Little (1830-1882). Margret had six siblings:
- Henry H. (1845-1862)
- James Wesley (1847-1909)
- John F. (1849-1874)
- C.V. (1851-1924)
- Letha Etta (1857-1930)
- Louis Cass (1860-1866)
Margret married Basil Jordan Carrico (1848-1926) on August 31, 1870 in Howell County, Missouri. They would have six children:
- Arminda Jane (1871-1960)
- Josiah Converse (my 2nd great grandfather; 1873-1957)
- Lewis Harrison (1875-1876)
- Herbert Decature (1877-1969)
- Anna Mae (1880-1971)
- Maude Esta (1887-1963)
By the 1870's census, Margret and her family had moved to Arkansas initially settling in Spring Creek (1870) then in La Crosse (1880), by 1910 she was living in Apple Glenn.
Margret died on October 7, 1940 at age 88. Margret is buried at Wann Cemetery in Beaty, Arizona.
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