Mary Ann (Penrod) Norton |
| Posted 2009-08-13 by Sharla |
| Mary Ann Penrod 1855-1935 The oldest child of William and Polly Ann Penrod was a daughter, Mary Ann. Born July 5, 1855, at Wallsburg, Wasatch Co., Utah, she grew up there and married one John William Gilson in 1871. Shortly after her parents came to Arizona in 1878, Mary and her husband followed, but their life was not happy together and they were divorced while living at Juniper. Mary went to work for George Scott, a prominent sheep owner, and there she met John Francis Norton and married him on June 4, 1884. No children were born to either union. Most of Mary's life was spent in Pinetop. She had a little cabin there and lived in it until 1932, alone after her husband's death. Then she moved to the home of her brother Ralph and it was there she succumbed suddenly to a heart attack on February 13, 1935, at age eighty. I remember her as a quiet little woman, dark, neat and comely. Her sister-in-law stated that her outstanding characteristic was her cleanliness about herself and home. Author: Delbert Adair Jr. See Also: Find A Grave |
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