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Margaret Elizabeth “Maggie” Cunningham Eggart

Birth
Adair County, Iowa, USA
Death
25 Sep 1966 (aged 93)
Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming, USA
Burial
Sheridan, Sheridan County, Wyoming, USA Add to Map
Plot
Block 16 Lot 22
Memorial ID
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Margaret Elizabeth Cunningham Eggart

Sheridan Press Sept. 26, 1966

Eggart Rites Are Wednesday
Margaret Elizabeth Eggart, 93, who lived at 52 Coffeen avenue, died Sunday at Sheridan County memorial hospital.

Mrs. Eggart was born March 5, 1873, in Adair County, Iowa, and was the widow of Dan Eggart. She came to this area about the time the railroad arrived. Other details of her life were not available at press time.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Ferris Funeral home, and burial will be in Sheridan municipal cemetery.

Sheridan Press Sept 27, 1966

Pioneer Woman Dies In Sheridan
A pioneer woman who came west by covered wagon, died Sunday at the Sheridan County Memorial hospital at age of 93.

Margaret E. Eggart was born March 5, 1873 in Adair county, Iowa to John and Hannah Cunningham. She was married in 1893 to Dan Eggart and they farmed for a time in Adair count. When the Indian territory in Oklahoma was opened for settlement, they went there by covered wagon, and alter to Missouri. The Eggarts came to Wyoming the year after the Sheridan area railroad was built, and homesteaded near Parkman. They later moved to Sheridan. They
were members of the Christian church.

Mrs. Eggart was preceded in death by her husband, an infant daughter, and a son, Francis Eggart, who died in 1964.

Survivors include a sister, Callie Eggart of Dayton: a brother, the Rev. John Cunningham of Winterset, Iowa, a daughter-in-law, Helen Eggart of Roundup, Mont.; two grandchildren, Mrs. Adolph Fink of Roundup and Dan Eggart of Musselshell, Mont.; Six great grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. at Ferries Funeral home, with the Rev. Kenneth Rice of the Methodist church officiating.

Margaret Elizabeth Cunningham Eggart

Sheridan Press Sept. 26, 1966

Eggart Rites Are Wednesday
Margaret Elizabeth Eggart, 93, who lived at 52 Coffeen avenue, died Sunday at Sheridan County memorial hospital.

Mrs. Eggart was born March 5, 1873, in Adair County, Iowa, and was the widow of Dan Eggart. She came to this area about the time the railroad arrived. Other details of her life were not available at press time.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Ferris Funeral home, and burial will be in Sheridan municipal cemetery.

Sheridan Press Sept 27, 1966

Pioneer Woman Dies In Sheridan
A pioneer woman who came west by covered wagon, died Sunday at the Sheridan County Memorial hospital at age of 93.

Margaret E. Eggart was born March 5, 1873 in Adair county, Iowa to John and Hannah Cunningham. She was married in 1893 to Dan Eggart and they farmed for a time in Adair count. When the Indian territory in Oklahoma was opened for settlement, they went there by covered wagon, and alter to Missouri. The Eggarts came to Wyoming the year after the Sheridan area railroad was built, and homesteaded near Parkman. They later moved to Sheridan. They
were members of the Christian church.

Mrs. Eggart was preceded in death by her husband, an infant daughter, and a son, Francis Eggart, who died in 1964.

Survivors include a sister, Callie Eggart of Dayton: a brother, the Rev. John Cunningham of Winterset, Iowa, a daughter-in-law, Helen Eggart of Roundup, Mont.; two grandchildren, Mrs. Adolph Fink of Roundup and Dan Eggart of Musselshell, Mont.; Six great grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.

Funeral services will be Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. at Ferries Funeral home, with the Rev. Kenneth Rice of the Methodist church officiating.



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