Written by grandson Brett Lashlee:
Succumbed to cancer at her home in October 1996. Attended Grace Episcopal Church in Paris, TN. Grew up in a mining family living in Northern California (Fort Jones & Chamberlain areas of Siskiyou County). Parents were of Irish descent, coming over in the mid-1800s), trekking out West on the Oregon Trail, settling in southern Oregon, and then into Northern California.
Maggie as she was called, hung around the mining camps with her father and uncles, becoming "one of the boys"! Her family owned extensive mining claims and was known as premier minors during the gold rush in California, Alaska, and Arizona. They also mined in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and parts of Canada. Maggie loved riding horses and traveling with her mother and Aunts. Moving to Dunsmuir, CA with her mother, she would become a standout athlete in grade and high school for the track and basketball teams. Always an adventurer, she would marry just to travel and have fun (as was her side of the story!). She married her first-love Henry Jeakel, a hometown sweetheart from Dunsmuir several years her senior. The marriage was short-lived. According to Nanny, she said she married a couple of times simply for fun and travel!
She then met Alton "Red" Haggerty of Scottish descent in the late 1930s, marrying late in 1939 and having 3 children. He was a well-known musician, playing in the ensemble of Benny Goodman and other well-known artists of that era. Travel and separation would bring divorce, and Maggie would meet and marry William Carsey Gatlin, a returning WW2 soldier debarking in San Francisco from the war. They would live in the bay area for a few years, visit family in Dunsmuir and northern CA areas, but then move to Carsey's home of Buchanan and Paris, Tennessee around 1948-49. There, Pat, Sandy, and Butch would attend and graduate school and move on to establish families of their own.
Maggie and Carsey would manage family land interests in and around Henry County until Carsey's death in 1974. Maggie would travel extensively for a couple of decades and then die at her home at 822 Curtis Street in Paris, Tn, succumbing to cancer she had battled for a year.
To those that knew her, she was a person forever trapped in the "Roaring 20's"! Always jovial, comical, tough as nails, but a distinguished lady when she had to be. I compare her closest to Katherine Hepburn and someone there is no identical to!
Succumbed to cancer at her home in October 1996. Attended Grace Episcopal Church in Paris, TN. Grew up in a mining family living in Northern California (Fort Jones & Chamberlain areas of Siskiyou County). Parents were of Irish descent, coming over in the mid-1800s), trekking out West on the Oregon Trail, settling in southern Oregon, and then into Northern California.
Maggie as she was called, hung around the mining camps with her father and uncles, becoming "one of the boys"! Her family owned extensive mining claims and was known as premier minors during the gold rush in California, Alaska, and Arizona. They also mined in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and parts of Canada. Maggie loved riding horses and traveling with her mother and Aunts. Moving to Dunsmuir, CA with her mother, she would become a standout athlete in grade and high school for the track and basketball teams. Always an adventurer, she would marry just to travel and have fun (as was her side of the story!). She married her first-love Henry Jeakel, a hometown sweetheart from Dunsmuir several years her senior. The marriage was short-lived. According to Nanny, she said she married a couple of times simply for fun and travel!
She then met Alton "Red" Haggerty of Scottish descent in the late 1930s, marrying late in 1939 and having 3 children. He was a well-known musician, playing in the ensemble of Benny Goodman and other well-known artists of that era. Travel and separation would bring divorce, and Maggie would meet and marry William Carsey Gatlin, a returning WW2 soldier debarking in San Francisco from the war. They would live in the bay area for a few years, visit family in Dunsmuir and northern CA areas, but then move to Carsey's home of Buchanan and Paris, Tennessee around 1948-49. There, Pat, Sandy, and Butch would attend and graduate school and move on to establish families of their own.
Maggie and Carsey would manage family land interests in and around Henry County until Carsey's death in 1974. Maggie would travel extensively for a couple of decades and then die at her home at 822 Curtis Street in Paris, Tn, succumbing to cancer she had battled for a year.
To those that knew her, she was a person forever trapped in the "Roaring 20's"! Always jovial, comical, tough as nails, but a distinguished lady when she had to be. I compare her closest to Katherine Hepburn and someone there is no identical to!
Written by grandson Brett Lashlee:
Succumbed to cancer at her home in October 1996. Attended Grace Episcopal Church in Paris, TN. Grew up in a mining family living in Northern California (Fort Jones & Chamberlain areas of Siskiyou County). Parents were of Irish descent, coming over in the mid-1800s), trekking out West on the Oregon Trail, settling in southern Oregon, and then into Northern California.
Maggie as she was called, hung around the mining camps with her father and uncles, becoming "one of the boys"! Her family owned extensive mining claims and was known as premier minors during the gold rush in California, Alaska, and Arizona. They also mined in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and parts of Canada. Maggie loved riding horses and traveling with her mother and Aunts. Moving to Dunsmuir, CA with her mother, she would become a standout athlete in grade and high school for the track and basketball teams. Always an adventurer, she would marry just to travel and have fun (as was her side of the story!). She married her first-love Henry Jeakel, a hometown sweetheart from Dunsmuir several years her senior. The marriage was short-lived. According to Nanny, she said she married a couple of times simply for fun and travel!
She then met Alton "Red" Haggerty of Scottish descent in the late 1930s, marrying late in 1939 and having 3 children. He was a well-known musician, playing in the ensemble of Benny Goodman and other well-known artists of that era. Travel and separation would bring divorce, and Maggie would meet and marry William Carsey Gatlin, a returning WW2 soldier debarking in San Francisco from the war. They would live in the bay area for a few years, visit family in Dunsmuir and northern CA areas, but then move to Carsey's home of Buchanan and Paris, Tennessee around 1948-49. There, Pat, Sandy, and Butch would attend and graduate school and move on to establish families of their own.
Maggie and Carsey would manage family land interests in and around Henry County until Carsey's death in 1974. Maggie would travel extensively for a couple of decades and then die at her home at 822 Curtis Street in Paris, Tn, succumbing to cancer she had battled for a year.
To those that knew her, she was a person forever trapped in the "Roaring 20's"! Always jovial, comical, tough as nails, but a distinguished lady when she had to be. I compare her closest to Katherine Hepburn and someone there is no identical to!
Succumbed to cancer at her home in October 1996. Attended Grace Episcopal Church in Paris, TN. Grew up in a mining family living in Northern California (Fort Jones & Chamberlain areas of Siskiyou County). Parents were of Irish descent, coming over in the mid-1800s), trekking out West on the Oregon Trail, settling in southern Oregon, and then into Northern California.
Maggie as she was called, hung around the mining camps with her father and uncles, becoming "one of the boys"! Her family owned extensive mining claims and was known as premier minors during the gold rush in California, Alaska, and Arizona. They also mined in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, and parts of Canada. Maggie loved riding horses and traveling with her mother and Aunts. Moving to Dunsmuir, CA with her mother, she would become a standout athlete in grade and high school for the track and basketball teams. Always an adventurer, she would marry just to travel and have fun (as was her side of the story!). She married her first-love Henry Jeakel, a hometown sweetheart from Dunsmuir several years her senior. The marriage was short-lived. According to Nanny, she said she married a couple of times simply for fun and travel!
She then met Alton "Red" Haggerty of Scottish descent in the late 1930s, marrying late in 1939 and having 3 children. He was a well-known musician, playing in the ensemble of Benny Goodman and other well-known artists of that era. Travel and separation would bring divorce, and Maggie would meet and marry William Carsey Gatlin, a returning WW2 soldier debarking in San Francisco from the war. They would live in the bay area for a few years, visit family in Dunsmuir and northern CA areas, but then move to Carsey's home of Buchanan and Paris, Tennessee around 1948-49. There, Pat, Sandy, and Butch would attend and graduate school and move on to establish families of their own.
Maggie and Carsey would manage family land interests in and around Henry County until Carsey's death in 1974. Maggie would travel extensively for a couple of decades and then die at her home at 822 Curtis Street in Paris, Tn, succumbing to cancer she had battled for a year.
To those that knew her, she was a person forever trapped in the "Roaring 20's"! Always jovial, comical, tough as nails, but a distinguished lady when she had to be. I compare her closest to Katherine Hepburn and someone there is no identical to!
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