Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
Ratay-Johnstone Ancestors - Person Sheet
NameMargaret E. DEBOSE
Birth10 Dec 1918, Harrisburg, Saline County, Illinois1016
Memoobit gives birth as 10 Dec 1921
Death4 Oct 1978, Herrin, Williamson County, Illinois1016
Memoobit
BurialHilllcrest Cemetery, Carterville, Illinois
Alias/AKAPeggy Gillum; Smith; Rowatt
FatherLazer Martin DEBOSE (1889-1954)
MotherOra Delle HOGAN (1894-1974)
Spouses
Marriage23 Jul 1949, Arkansas8338
Marr Memoliving in Illinois
Marriage31 Dec 1965, Shawneetown, Illinois
Marr Memoobit
Census notes for Margaret E. DEBOSE
1930 Illinois, Williamson County, Johnston City, ward 4, Herrin Township, E.D. 100-40 sheet 21A, stamped page 202 (taken 19 Apr 1930)
1401 Johnson St., dwelling 438, family 445
DeBose, L.M., head, rents, $10, male, white, age 40, married, age 27, born Kentucky, father born Alabama, mother born Kentucky, loader, coal mine
———-, L.M. Jr., son, male, white, age 12, single, born Kentucky, parents born Kentucky
———-, Margaret E., daughter, female, white, age 10, single, born Illinois, parents born Kentucky
———-, Mary C., daughter, female, white, age 9, single, born Illinois, parents born Kentucky
———-, Julia L., daughter, female, white, age 6, single, born Illinois, parents born Kentucky
[wife Ora and daughter Eveline listed in a different location]
Johnson, Minnie, housekeeper, female, white, age 42, widow, married for 30 years, born Ohio, parents born Ohio
————, Geraldine, boarder, female, white, age 10, single, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Ohio
————, L.O., boarder, male, white, age 9, single, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Ohio
————, Alma, boarder, female, white, age 8, single, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Ohio
————, Madge, boarder, female, white, age 7, single, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Ohio
————, Billie E., boarder, female, white, age 4, single, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Ohio
————, Junior, boarder, male, white, age 3, single, born Illinois, father born Illinois, mother born Ohio
Obituary notes for Margaret E. DEBOSE
Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale, Illinois), Thursday, 5 October 1978, p. 24
Peggy L. Rowatt


Funeral services for Peggy Lee Rowatt, 56, of Col, will be at 1 p.m. Friday in the Riggin-Pillatsch Funeral Home in Carterville.

Burial will be in the Hillcrest Cemetery in Carterville. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mrs. Rowatt died at 8:45 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1978, in Herrin Hospital.

She was born Dec. 10, 1921, in Eldorado to Laser and Ora Hogan DeBose. She was married to James Rowan in Shawneetown, Dec. 31, 1965.

A brother preceded her in death.

Survivors are her husband; two stepsons, Billy Gene Rowatt of Berwyn and Jackie Rowan of Florida; and three sisters, Joann Profitt and Christine Owens, both of Herrin, and Julie Cutsinger of Aurora.
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