From a sampler made by Mary when she was 14, she was the daughter of Daniel and Ruth Emery Warner. Her mother died when she was about 5 years old.
Research has failed to uncovered the reason that Mary Warner was in Putnam County, IN where she married Chauncey B. Patrick 13 July 1843. The couple had four children, Albert O., John Q., Antoinette, and Ruth A.
In 1850 the family was living in Wapello County, IA, but sometime after 1852, they went west to the gold fields of California.
Her daughter Antoinette described Mary's death in a letter that she wrote to family.
"Father went off to buy cattle for the markets I suppose and our mother and we four children all alone--well as to our mother's death it is so pathetic I hate to write of it. There was a fireplace in the room--by side of it was a chair--on it her Bible. And it was supposed she was praying for the Good Lord to keep them from all harm. Her long hair loose--we all asleep--for it was night. Men saw her running with her hair ablaze, and with such speed that it took seven men to catch her--by that time she was badly burned. The men said it was almost miraculous that she escaped the many pits over which she passed. Father came home--she never knew him and died three days after."
Her exact date and place of death are not known. She is being remembered by being posted in unknown cemetery. The family was likely in the Kelsey area.
Research has failed to uncovered the reason that Mary Warner was in Putnam County, IN where she married Chauncey B. Patrick 13 July 1843. The couple had four children, Albert O., John Q., Antoinette, and Ruth A.
In 1850 the family was living in Wapello County, IA, but sometime after 1852, they went west to the gold fields of California.
Her daughter Antoinette described Mary's death in a letter that she wrote to family.
"Father went off to buy cattle for the markets I suppose and our mother and we four children all alone--well as to our mother's death it is so pathetic I hate to write of it. There was a fireplace in the room--by side of it was a chair--on it her Bible. And it was supposed she was praying for the Good Lord to keep them from all harm. Her long hair loose--we all asleep--for it was night. Men saw her running with her hair ablaze, and with such speed that it took seven men to catch her--by that time she was badly burned. The men said it was almost miraculous that she escaped the many pits over which she passed. Father came home--she never knew him and died three days after."
Her exact date and place of death are not known. She is being remembered by being posted in unknown cemetery. The family was likely in the Kelsey area.
From a sampler made by Mary when she was 14, she was the daughter of Daniel and Ruth Emery Warner. Her mother died when she was about 5 years old.
Research has failed to uncovered the reason that Mary Warner was in Putnam County, IN where she married Chauncey B. Patrick 13 July 1843. The couple had four children, Albert O., John Q., Antoinette, and Ruth A.
In 1850 the family was living in Wapello County, IA, but sometime after 1852, they went west to the gold fields of California.
Her daughter Antoinette described Mary's death in a letter that she wrote to family.
"Father went off to buy cattle for the markets I suppose and our mother and we four children all alone--well as to our mother's death it is so pathetic I hate to write of it. There was a fireplace in the room--by side of it was a chair--on it her Bible. And it was supposed she was praying for the Good Lord to keep them from all harm. Her long hair loose--we all asleep--for it was night. Men saw her running with her hair ablaze, and with such speed that it took seven men to catch her--by that time she was badly burned. The men said it was almost miraculous that she escaped the many pits over which she passed. Father came home--she never knew him and died three days after."
Her exact date and place of death are not known. She is being remembered by being posted in unknown cemetery. The family was likely in the Kelsey area.
Research has failed to uncovered the reason that Mary Warner was in Putnam County, IN where she married Chauncey B. Patrick 13 July 1843. The couple had four children, Albert O., John Q., Antoinette, and Ruth A.
In 1850 the family was living in Wapello County, IA, but sometime after 1852, they went west to the gold fields of California.
Her daughter Antoinette described Mary's death in a letter that she wrote to family.
"Father went off to buy cattle for the markets I suppose and our mother and we four children all alone--well as to our mother's death it is so pathetic I hate to write of it. There was a fireplace in the room--by side of it was a chair--on it her Bible. And it was supposed she was praying for the Good Lord to keep them from all harm. Her long hair loose--we all asleep--for it was night. Men saw her running with her hair ablaze, and with such speed that it took seven men to catch her--by that time she was badly burned. The men said it was almost miraculous that she escaped the many pits over which she passed. Father came home--she never knew him and died three days after."
Her exact date and place of death are not known. She is being remembered by being posted in unknown cemetery. The family was likely in the Kelsey area.
