Margaret (Miner)
Bottomley
(1891- ? )
Margaret
(Miner) Bottomley was born in September 1891 in Connellsville, Fayette
County, PA, the daughter of Henry and Eliza
(Swink) Minerd (or "Miner").
On the third day of the new year in 1908, the 16-year-old Maggie married 22-year-old Charles Edward Bottomley Sr. (1885- ? ). He was a merchant residing in Connellsville, and was the son of Charles S. and Alice Bottomley of Moyer, Fayette County. The ceremony was performed by justice of the peace Frank Miller.
The Bottomleys had at least 10 children – Barbara Ellen Bottomley, Alice Gordon, Elizabeth Sheldon, Charles E. Bottomley Jr., Myrtle Orndorff, Margaret Lindsey, Harry Bottomley, Mary Louise Breakiron, Charlotte Reynolds and Thomas Bottomley.
The family resided at 226 North Arch Street in Connellsville, circa 1942.
Seen
here, Margaret (at far right) is stands with some of her adult children,
at a date unknown.
Their final fates are still being researched. A check of records at the Green Ridge Memorial Park in Connellsville in 2006 revealed that they are not interred there.
Daughter Alice married Charles Gordon.
Daughter Myrtle married (?) Orndorff. She resided in Connellsville, and passed away there on March 15, 1993. She rests for eternity at Green Ridge Memorial Park.
In
1939, son Charles (1919-1994) married Violet Miner (1919-2000), the daughter of
Raymond and Rebecca (Rugg) Miner, and the granddaughter of William
Henry and Sara (Basinger) Minerd. They resided in Mill Run, Fayette County.
Said the Connellsville Daily Courier, Charles was a "machine
operator for the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation for more than 35 years. He was
a veteran of the United States Army, having served in World War II. He was a
member of … the Springfield Township Volunteer Fire Department…" (The
Anchor Hocking plant in Connellsville is seen at left in an old
postcard.) Charles died on Jan. 27, 1994. Violet outlived him by six years, and passed away on Sept. 18, 2000.
Daughter Margaret married (?) Lindsey. She lived in Connellsville.
Son Harry resided in Connellsville circa 1994.
Daughter Mary Louise (1931-2006) married Norman W. Breakiron. They lived in Smithton, Westmoreland County, PA, had three children and were married for 56 years, said the Daily Courier. Mary Louise passed away on New Year's Day 2006 at UPMC Montefiore in Oakland, near Pittsburgh. She was laid to rest at Olive Branch Cemetery in Rostraver Twp.
Daughter Charlotte married Ronald Reynolds. They resided in Bradford, McKean County, PA.
Many thanks to Jack Lewis and Thomas Lewis for their permission to use their book, The Lewis Family of Oliphant Furnace, PA, as source material for this biography.
Copyright © 2003-2004, 2007 Mark A. Miner