Mary Mathison Crabtree

Brief Life History of Mary Mathison

When Mary Mathison Crabtree was born on 6 August 1882, in Providence, Cache, Utah, United States, her father, Charles Samuel Crabtree, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Blair, was 23. She married William John Steele on 23 December 1903, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. She lived in Pocatello Election Precinct 6, Bannock, Idaho, United States for about 5 years and Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States for about 1 years. She died on 24 July 1961, in Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho, United States.

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Family Time Line

William John Steele
1883–1962
Mary Mathison Crabtree
1882–1961
Marriage: 23 December 1903
William Melbourne Crabtree Steele
1906–1980
Margaret Louise Sonoma Steele
1907–1993
John Winton Steele
1909–1988
Maxfield Hardy Steele
1913–1980
Brent Terreol Steele
1918–1918
Elvira Elizabeth Steele
1920–2009

Sources (67)

  • Margaret M Steele, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Margaret M. Crabtree, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1940"
  • Margaret C Steele, "Idaho Death Certificates, 1938-1961"

World Events (8)

1886

Statue of Liberty is dedicated.

1892

Coolgardie gold-field is discovered.

1903 · Department of Commerce and Labor

A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.

Name Meaning

English (Yorkshire and Lancashire): habitational name from a lost place in Sowerbyshire, Yorkshire named Crabtree, named from Middle English crabbetre ‘crab-apple tree’. In some instances possibly a topographic name for someone who lived by a crab-apple tree.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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