Source: Alton Evening Telegraph, September 19, 1923
Second Wife of Henry Guest McPike
Mrs. Mamie L. McPike, formerly of Alton, died at her home in Hastings, Nebraska, yesterday. A telegram from her only son, Eugene McPike of Chicago, came to C. L. Goulding today.
Mrs. McPike was a member of the well-known Lyons family of Bethalto. She was 78 years of age. She was a sister of Mrs. Edward H. Goulding [founder of Goulding Jewelers in Alton], deceased, mother of Charles L. Goulding of Alton.
The funeral will be held in Chicago Thursday.
NOTES:
Her obituary shows her name as Mamie McPike. Her tombstone shows “Grandmother Nannie L. McPike.” Her marriage to Henry Guest McPike ended in divorce, although on census records it shows her as the socially acceptable “widow.”
Source: Alton Evening Telegraph, September 19, 1923
Second Wife of Henry Guest McPike
Mrs. Mamie L. McPike, formerly of Alton, died at her home in Hastings, Nebraska, yesterday. A telegram from her only son, Eugene McPike of Chicago, came to C. L. Goulding today.
Mrs. McPike was a member of the well-known Lyons family of Bethalto. She was 78 years of age. She was a sister of Mrs. Edward H. Goulding [founder of Goulding Jewelers in Alton], deceased, mother of Charles L. Goulding of Alton.
The funeral will be held in Chicago Thursday.
NOTES:
Her obituary shows her name as Mamie McPike. Her tombstone shows “Grandmother Nannie L. McPike.” Her marriage to Henry Guest McPike ended in divorce, although on census records it shows her as the socially acceptable “widow.”
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