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Family of Edna (Brown) Jergensen

LarryParks43  (View posts) Posted: 3 Oct 2009 11:33PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Brown, Zigler, Weigand, Hoch, Cope, Jergensen
I’m stabbing in the dark here trying to find connections to the following people who were mentioned in the will of Edna Sophia (Brown) Jergensen, b.1879, PA d. 14 Sept. 1947, Anaconda, MT. The will was probated in 1952.

Edna's parents were Lewis and Amanda (Cope) Brown. (not in will)

Agnes Zigler, Exectrix
Mrs. John Weigand, Sister
Elizabeth R. Hoch, Niece (aka Lizzie)
Cora Rasley, Niece
Irma Rasley, Niece
Clarence A, Brown, Nephew
Marvin W. Brown, Nephew

And Mrs. Irvin Hoch, Easton, PA, I believe this to be Elizabeth (Lizzie) above.

Re: Family of Edna (Brown) Jergensen

volunteerMT  (View posts) Posted: 4 Oct 2009 12:37AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: JERGENSEN
1952 ANACONDA CITY DIRECTORY (Polk):

ZIGLER, George A. (Agnes); lime operator--A.C.M. Company; householder at 317 E. 5th Street.

I am unable to find the surnames of Weigand, Hoch, Rasley or Clarence & Marvin W. Brown in this directory.
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1947 ANACONDA CITY DIRECTORY (Polk):

JERGENSEN, Edna Mrs.; householder at 205 Cherry St., Apt. #1.
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I am unable to find the other people. They may have resided out of the Anaconda city limits.

I did check the census data, and in 1920 they were living in Warm Springs and Chris Jergensen was working on a farm, so they may have lived outside the city limits.

I also checked the 1952 BUTTE CITY DIRECTORY to see if I could find any of those other names there, but I was unsuccessful. I will look further, but I am working on a new computer and I am unable (for some reason) to access some of my paid databases (old newspaper archives, etc.,), so I will try again later.

Re: Family of Edna (Brown) Jergensen

LarryParks43  (View posts) Posted: 4 Oct 2009 9:36PM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for your help. I don't know the connection to the exectrix, Agnes Zigler, there may or may not be a family connection. The sister and nieces and nephews lived in Northhampton county PA.

Chris and Edna Jergensen owned the farm just west of Warm Springs State Hospital on the north side of highway 48, so they would not have been in the city directory.

Chris died in 1945 and Edna died in 1947.

Obit: ZIGLER, Agnes, Dies 11 Jun 1961 in Deer Lodge County, MT

volunteerMT  (View posts) Posted: 5 Oct 2009 3:19AM GMT
Classification: Obituary
Surnames: ZIGLER, WALKER, HAMILTON, MC CAVITT, WALTERS, DE RUSHA, MORLEY
1920 U.S. Federal Census; Montana; Deer Lodge County; Anaconda; Ward 5; Roll: T625_969; Page: 4b; Enumeration District: 30; Image: 866; Enumerated on 09 Jan 1920:

McCAVITT, James; head of household; male; white; 37 years old; married; born in Ireland; both parents born in Ireland; immigrated to U.S. in 1886; occupation: molder--coper smelter.
McCAVITT, Katherine; wife; female; white; 30 years old; married; born in Kansas; both parents born in Scotland.
McCAVITT, James; son; male; white; 7 years old; born in Montana; father born in Ireland; mother born in Kansas.
McCAVITT, Frances; son; male; white; 5 years old; born in Montana; father born in Ireland; mother born in Kansas.
ZIGLER, George; head of household; male; white; 25 years old; married; born in Missouri; both parents born in Missouri; occupation: repairman--copper smelter.
ZIGLER, Agnes; wife; female; white; 25 years old; martried; born in Montana; both parents born in Scotland.
(NOTE: These two families were living in the same household).

1930 U.S. Federal Census; Montana; Deer Lodge County; Anaconda; 5th Ward; Roll: 1255; Page: 6b; Enumeration District: 18; Image: 256.0; enumerated on 12 Apr 1930:

McCAVITT, James; head of household; male; white; 47 years old; married for past 25 years; born in Massachusetts; both parents born in Ireland; occupation: molder--foundry.
ZIGLER, Agnes; sister-in-law; female; white; 37 years old; married past 25 years; born in Idaho; both parents born in Scotland.
ZIGLER, George; brother-in-law; male; white; 35 years old; married past 25 years; born in Colorado; both parents born in North Dakota; occupation: repairman--copper smelter.
McCAVITT, James; son; male; white; 18 years old; single; born in Montana; father born in Massachusetts; mother born in Scotland; occupation: none listed.
McCAVITT, Frances; son; male; white; 16 years ols; single; born in Montana; father born in Massachusetts; mother born in Scotland; occupation: none listed.
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MONTANA DEATH INDEX:

ZIGLER, Agnes
Died: 11 Jun 1961 at 68 years of age
County(s) of Death & Residence: Deer Lodge County
Marital Status: Married
Index #: 181

ZIGLER, George
Born: 31 Mar 1895 (Social Security Death Index)
Died: 13 Jun 1969 at 74 years of age
Marital Status: Widowed
Index #: 2888
SS#: 516-01-7837 (Issued in Montana before 1951)
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OBITUARY

From the "Montana Standard," published at Butte, Montana on Monday, June 12, 1961:

GEORGE ZIGLER'S WIFE SUCCUMBS
ANACONDA---Mrs. Agnes (Ag) Zogler, wife of George (Shorty) Zigler, 317 E. Fifth, died Sunday morning in the State Sanitarium at Galen following an extended illness. She had been a patient there three months.

She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John M. Walker and was born at Sand Coulee near Great Falls, and came to Anaconda as a small child. She attended local schools and was graduated from Anaconda High School.

Mrs. Zigler was a member of the Presbyterian Church and was an ardent worker in its activities. She also was active in the auxilliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Women of the Moose and Women of the Elks.

Surviving in addition to her husband are two brothers-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. William Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Walters, Mrs. E.D. DeRusha and Mrs. Evelyn Morley, Denver; Mr. and Mrs. Dale Zigler, Santa Monica, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Zigler, Oroville, Calif., nephews, nieces and others.

The body is in the Finnegan Co. Funeral Home where friends may call beginning Monday afternoon. The body will be removed to the Presbyterian Church Wednesday morning where it will lie in state until 2 p.m., when the funeral services will be conducted. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens in the family plot.
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I hope that the above census data and obit may provide you with some information that is useful. I am not related.

Re: Obit: ZIGLER, Agnes, Dies 11 Jun 1961 in Deer Lodge County, MT

LarryParks43  (View posts) Posted: 5 Oct 2009 6:08AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you for all your work. I don't see any family connection here, but that is what I was expecting. Agnes may have been a friend or she may have worked for the lawyer and served as executrix when no family was left in Anaconda, which was the case here.

All of Edna (Brown) Jergensen's family (Brown) lived in or around Northampton, PA and the only Jergensen family was my great aunt Mary Parks, Edna's step daughter, living in Long Beach, CA at the time.

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