Margarete McKown Metty, 2nd wife of Solomon








Margarete was born Dec. 28, 1852 at Indianapolis, Hancock County, Indiana, the daughter of James Andrew McKown and Maria Louisa Priddy.

James Andrew was born May 1822 in Pennsylvania.

His father was James Thomas McKown born 1787 Ireland and came with his father Thomas, to the United States around the age of 10 & settled in Pennsylvania. He moved to Indiana after Thomas’s death ca 1841.

James Thomas McKown married Margaret McClelland who was also born in Ireland 1787 & came to U.S. about age 4.

Interesting note: there is a picture of Margaret McClelland in the book "Any Given Day" written by Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux, a descendant of a sister of Margarete’s.

Maria Louisa was born Jan. 1830 in Hancock Co., Indiana & died April 1858 when Margarete was about 5 years old.

The McKown family came to Kansas in an ox wagon when Margarete was four years old & settled in St. George, Pottawatomie County.

In the 1870 census Maggie was age 17 & was a milliner.

Margarete & Solomon married on Aug. 31, 1872 at Louisville, Pottawatomie Co, Kansas. They had 9 children. She also raised the two sons Sol had from his first marriage.

In July 1880 a local newspaper article reported: “Last week while Mrs. Sol Metty was cutting pie-plant (rhubarb) she felt something unusually cold in her hand. It proved to be nothing but a rattlesnake, and she dropped it again.”

In 1903 the Metty’s moved to Topeka, Kansas where Margarete died April 19, 1923.

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