Mary Martha (Plants) EALY

  General Notes:

Obituary: When Mary Dague died in 1923, she had outlived her husband, John Adams Dague, by more than 13 years. Formerly married to David Ealy, she had become David's widow in 1883. Daughter of George Plants and Mary "Nancy" Seaman, Mary Martha (Plants) (Ealy) Dague had children (and descendants) with both husbands.

Obituary photographed by Shirley Allum Hudlicky in Greene County, Pennsylvania in 1965




OBITUARY (Mary) (photograph of, by Shirley Allum Hudlicky, newspaper undocumented):


MRS. MARY DAGUE

Mrs. Mary Dague, aged 71 years, widow of John A. Dague, died at her home in East Finley township Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock following a lingering illness. Mrs. Dague was born in East Finley township in 1852, a daughter of George and Nancy Plants. She joined the Fairmount United Brethren at an early age and had been a life-long member of that church. She leaves the following children: Mrs. John Stollar of Washington; Mrs. Alex Sprowls of Claysville; Mrs. Walter E. Gamble of Dormont, and J. Bentley Ealy, by a former marriage, and Mrs. J. H. Allum, and Lawrence Dague, both of East Finley.

She is also survived by the following brothers and sisters: W. S. Plants of Claysville; J. L. Plants of Washington; Nathan Plants of Wheeling; and Mrs. Nannie Francis of Lamar, Colorado.

The funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Fairmount United Brethren church, in charge of the Rev. S. J. Wilson. The interment will be in the Fairmount cemetery.



1852 BIRTH of Mary Martha Plants

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Finley Township, P. O. East Finley (June 26) ("Mary," age 8, is with her parents)

1870 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, East Finley Township, P. O. Claysville (August 13) ("Mary," age 18, is with her parents)

1880 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Washington County, West Finley District (June 3) ("Mary," age 27, is married to David "Ely" and has three children; immediately next door is Mary's future husband, John Adams Dague, and his first wife, Malissa Roberts; Malissa died in 1888)

1889 MARRIAGE (approximate) of Mary Martha (Plants) Ealy and John Adams Dague


See John Adams Dague for additional information

Mary married David EALY about 1873. (David EALY was born on September 29, 1844 in Or July 3, 1845, died on September 22, 1883 and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, East Finley, Washington County, Pennsylvania.)

Mary next married John Adams DAGUE about 1889. (John Adams DAGUE was born on January 3, 1843 in Pennsylvania, died on September 8, 1909 in Washington County, Pennsylvania and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery, East Finley, Washington County, Pennsylvania.)