Maria Wilmott Gallagher Pancake 1839-1871
2010
Maria Wilmott Gallagher was born in Ohio in 1839. In 1856, at the age of seventeen, she married William Crawford Pancake. He was the youngest child of William and Mary Crawford Pancake. Maria and William became the parents of four children. Three daughters lived to adulthood but one son, Oliver, died before his second birthday. He was buried in the Mohawk Cemetery near Warsaw in Coshocton County, Ohio.
In 1864, Maria’s husband William, her nephew by marriage – Stewart Pancake and many of the men in the county, enlisted in the Union Army to fight in the Civil War. William became very ill early in his service and spent many months in an Army hospital in the south. When he returned home after his enlistment time was finished, he was still ill. He died within weeks of returning home. During this same period of time, two of the daughters of Samuel and Catharine Pancake died as well. These daughters were five and six at the time of their deaths. William, Emma and Pauline Pancake died within a few weeks of each other. They are buried together in the Mohawk Cemetery.
When Maria’s father-in-law, William Pancake, died in 1867 . . . he left a Will wherein he remembered her three daughters. They shared the portion of the inheritance which would have gone to their father had he been alive.
In 1870, Maria Wilmott Gallagher Pancake and her three daughters were found in Warsaw, Jefferson Township, Coshocton County, Ohio. Her real estate was valued at $600. The next year, Maria died. She was buried with her husband William, son Oliver, nieces Emma and Pauline Pancake, sister-in-law Jane Pancake Thompson and father-in-law William Pancake. For ten years after their mother’s death, the three daughters of William and Maria Pancake lived with their paternal grandmother Mary Crawford Pancake. Mary died in 1880 and was buried in the churchyard cemetery with her many family members.