Mary Mercer Cosnahan
b. 5 October 1850, d. 29 April 1917
- Father: Joseph Bartholomew Cosnahan b. circa 1820, d. 1862
- Mother: Louisa Mercer Waller b. 7 February 1826, d. 30 October 1856
- Mary Mercer Cosnahan was born on 5 October 1850 in Alabama but how did she appear in the 1850 census, 3 months old?
- Joseph Bartholomew Cosnahan and Louisa Mercer Waller appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1850 in Matagorda County, Texas, living in a hotel operated by Galen Hodges.. Other members of the household included Mary Mercer Cosnahan, Roberta Ould Cosnahan and Robert W. Cosnahan.
- Joseph Bartholomew Cosnahan and Ellen J. (?) appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1860 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Other members of the household included Mary Mercer Cosnahan, Roberta Ould Cosnahan, Robert W. Cosnahan, Corbin Waller Cosnahan, Hugh Mercer Cosnahan and Louisa Cosnahan.
- She married Thomas Jefferson Stubbs, son of Jefferson Washington Stubbs and Ann Walker Carter Baytop, on 22 December 1869.
- Thomas Jefferson Stubbs and Mary Mercer Cosnahan appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Williamsburg, Virginia, at Francis Street. Other members of the household included Anne Waller Stubbs, Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Jr., Lucy Taliaferro Conway Stubbs and Mary Mercer Page Stubbs.
- Mary Mercer Cosnahan became a widow at the 17 November 1915 death of her husband Thomas Jefferson Stubbs.
- Mary Mercer Cosnahan died on 29 April 1917 at age 66.
- She was interred at Waller family cemetery, Williamsburg, Virginia.
- Last Edited: 7 Dec 2007
Family: Thomas Jefferson Stubbs b. 14 September 1841, d. 17 November 1915
- Anne Waller Stubbs b. 7 January 1872, d. 12 March 1964
- Thomas Jefferson Stubbs Jr. b. 11 December 1879, d. 2 January 1943
- Lucy Taliaferro Conway Stubbs b. 11 October 1882, d. 1914
- Mary Mercer Page Stubbs+ b. 1 June 1885, d. 16 April 1946