Margaret Blanche Wilson

Margaret Blanche Wilson

Margaret Blanche Wilson DeVine, 1878-1969

• Father: William Simpson Wilson b. 9 February 1854, d. 19 April 1911
• Mother: Kate DeYoung b. 13 August 1853, d. 30 January 1941

• Margaret Blanche Wilson was born on 18 January 1878 in New York.
• She was known as Maggie.
• William Simpson Wilson and Kate DeYoung appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1880 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 1580 Main Street and an infant daughter, born February 1880, is recorded but struck through, apparently having died (?). Other members of the household included Margaret Blanche Wilson, Ida Jeanette Wilson.
• William Simpson Wilson and Kate DeYoung appeared in the New York state census of 16 February 1892 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York. Other members of the household included Margaret Blanche Wilson, Ida Jeanette Wilson, Grace M. Wilson, William Edward Wilson, Hannah Heath Wilson, Kate R. Wilson and Charles A. Wilson.
• She married Charles John DeVine, son of Francis DeVine and Ada E. (?), circa 1896.
• Charles John DeVine and Margaret Blanche Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 334 Fourteenth Street. Other members of the household included Francis W. DeVine, Lester Charles DeVine, Ruth E. DeVine and Grace M. Wilson. Margaret's sister Grace Wilson is also enumerated with her parents.
• Charles John DeVine and Margaret Blanche Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 61 Pooley Street. Other members of the household included Francis W. DeVine, Lester Charles DeVine, Ruth E. DeVine, Edna May DeVine, Catherine DeVine and Edward J. DeVine.
• Charles John DeVine registered for the draft on 12 September 1918 in Erie County, New York, while living with his wife Margaret at 61 Pooley Street in Buffalo, and employed there as a machinist by King Sewing Machine Company.
• Charles John DeVine and Margaret Blanche Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Buffalo, New York, at 61 Pooley Street. Other members of the household included Francis W. DeVine, Ruth E. DeVine, Lester Charles DeVine, Edna May DeVine, Catherine DeVine and Edward J. DeVine.
• A four-generation photographic portrait was made of Margaret Blanche Wilson DeVine, her mother Kate DeYoung Wilson (right), daughter Edna May DeVine King, and granddaughter Betty King.
• Charles John DeVine and Margaret Blanche Wilson appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 13 Hartman Place. Other members of the household included Francis W. DeVine, Lester Charles DeVine, Ruth E. DeVine, Edward J. DeVine, Herbert Longsdale Wilson and Kate DeYoung. Herbert's wife Ida is enumerated in Cleveland, and daughter Virginia is enumerated in Buffalo with her maternal grandmother Venus Sickler.
• Margaret Blanche Wilson became a widow at the 22 December 1936 death of her husband Charles John DeVine.
• Francis W. King and Edna May DeVine appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Buffalo, Erie County, New York, at 370 Essex Street. Other members of the household included Margaret Blanche Wilson, Margaret Catherine King, Ruth E. DeVine and Catherine DeVine.
• The following appeared in The Buffalo News: [Died] Katie DeYoung Wilson, Jan. 30, 1941, wife of the late William S. Wilson, mother of Mrs. Ida Chapin, Mrs. Margaret DeVine, Mrs. Thomas Benton, William, Mrs. Jacob Mertz, Herbert L. Wilson of Buffalo, N.Y., and Mrs. Edward Brown of Toronto, Ont., and the late Charles A. and Mrs. Harriet Hodge. Funeral from the home of her son, Herbert L. Wilson, 159 Virgil ave., Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. Friends invited. Lockport papers please copy.
• The SSDI lists Buffalo, New York, as the last residence of record of Margaret Blanche Wilson.
• Margaret Blanche Wilson died on 19 March 1969 at age 91.
• She was interred at White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery, Amherst, Erie County, New York.

• Last Edited: 5 Mar 2013

• Charts: Descendants of WILSON Peter & Margaret Simpson