Margaret Elizabeth Shrake ^{1 2 3 4 5 6}

  Death Notes:

Name: Margaret Cowan
Given Name: Margaret
Surname: Cowan
Event Type: Death
Event Date: Nov 1973
Event Place: Trempealeau, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
Event Place (Original): Trempealeau, Trempealeau, Wisconsin
Age: 68
Birth Date: 19 Nov 1905

Citing this Record
"United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JT9X-6YW : 4 December 2020), Margaret Cowan, Nov 1973; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 16 April 1910. ²

1910 US Census
Sheet 2B, Roll 1739, District 173, Family 55
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
home owned with mortgage
Margaret E. Shrake..Daughter..4..WI
(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 10 January 1920. ³

1920 US Census
Sheet 5A, Roll 2018, District 219, Family 134
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
132 Main Street
home owned
Margaret E. Shrake..Daughter..14..WI
(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 3 May 1930. ⁴

1930 US Census
Sheet 5A, Roll 2614, District 0024, Family 130
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Home owned, $1000
Margaret Shrake..Daughter..24..WI
(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1940 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 26 April 1940. ¹

1940 US Census
Sheet 7B, Roll 4529, District 61-24, Family 162
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
house owned, value $800
Residence in 1935: Same House
Margaret M. Cowan..Sister..34..WI..12th grade
(Living with husband and 2 daughters at home of unmarried brother and unmarried sister.)
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• Her obituary was published in the Winona Daily News on 11 November 1973 in Winona, MN.

⁷ Mrs. Lloyd (Margaret) Cowan, 67, Trempealeau, died Friday evening at a La Crosse, Wis. hospital.

The former Margaret Shrake, she was born here Nov. 19, 1905, to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shrake, and was married May 17, 1937. She was a member of the Galesville Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Survivors are her husband; two sons, Charles, Trempealeau, and Army Spec. 5 John, Nuremberg, Germany; six daughters, Mrs. Peter (Virginia) Stanislowski, Trempealeau; Mrs. Richard (Margaret) Wing, La Crosse; Mrs. Maynard (Ellen) Pratt, Merrill, Wis.; Mrs. Joseph (Catherine) Knopf, San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. Vivian Simerson, Peoria, Ill., and Mrs. Steven (Theresa) McAllister, Portsmouth, Va.; 18 grandchildren; one brother, Leon Shrake, Winona, and a sister, Miss Mamie Shrake, Trempealeau.

Funeral services will be Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Bartholomew's Catholic Church here, the Rev. Walter Brey officiating. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery.

Friends may call at Smith Mortuary, Galesville, today from 4 to 9 p.m. Rosary will be recited at 8.

(Source: Winona Daily News, Winona, MN, 11 Nov 1973, page 17)
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• She was buried on 12 November 1973 in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Trempealeau, WI.

Find A Grave Memorial #95033405
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Margaret married Lloyd Albert Cowan, son of Hugh Alexander Cowan and Mary Elizabeth Dobbs, on 17 May 1937 in Trempealeau, WI.¹ (Lloyd Albert Cowan was born on 12 June 1916 in Toledo, IL,^{1 8} died on 4 February 1998 in Galesville, WI ⁸ and was buried on 9 February 1998 in Holy Cross Cemetery, Trempealeau, WI ⁸.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 26 April 1940. ¹

1940 US Census
Sheet 7B, Roll 4529, District 61-24, Family 162
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
house owned, value $800
Residence in 1935: Same House
Henry J. Shrake..Head..38..WI..8th grade..Laborer for WPA..earned $300 in 1939
Mamie S. Shrake..Sister..39..WI..10th grade
Margaret M. Cowan..Sister..34..WI..12th grade
Lloyd A. Cowan..Brother-in-Law..24..IL..8th grade..Farm Laborer..earned $350 in 1939
Margaret M. Cowan..Niece..2..WI
Ellen L. Cowan..Niece..1..WI
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  Marriage Notes:

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Henry W. Shrake and wife to Margaret Ann Shrake, Lot 2, Section 8, Township 6, Range 105

(Source: Winona Republican-Herald, Winona, MN, 3 Dec 1934, page 7)
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