Maggie Coldwell was the daughter of AB Coldwell & Easter Swagerty-Coldwell.
She married Mart Wright at the age of 18 in Jun 1892. In March of 1894 she gave birth to a son they named Ora Columbus Wright.
Tragedy struck only 5 months later when Maggie's father, AB Coldwell, "one of Washington County, Arkansas best farmers, was shot & killed by a highwayman on returning from the Cherokee Nation Flint District Payment Office in 1894".
Mart and Maggie's 2nd child, a daughter they named Allie, was born only 10 months after the birth of their son, Ora. She & Mart divorced shortly after Allie was born.
Maggie remarried, a local widower, Edmond Cook, who died only two years after the birth of their son, Hugh Cook, leaving her widowed at the young age of 29.
From what I gather, she became ill and Maggie's Mother, Easter Swagerty-Coldwell, put Hugh into an orphanage, "The Holiness Industrial Children's Home" in Scott, Bourbon, Kansas. At some point, Maggie's first cousin, Mary Osborn-Carter and her husband, Samuel N. Carter, managed the orphanage. Maggie worked at the orphanage to be near him.
As for her other two children; her son Ora was raised by his Father and I believe her daughter, Allie, lived with her and probably Maggie's Mother.
I have no record of when she married her 3rd husband, Will Denham, but he murdered her & her Mother, (who was living with them) in 1929 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in a fit of rage and then took his own life. She was only 55 years old.
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Maggie Coldwell was the daughter of AB Coldwell & Easter Swagerty-Coldwell.
She married Mart Wright at the age of 18 in Jun 1892. In March of 1894 she gave birth to a son they named Ora Columbus Wright.
Tragedy struck only 5 months later when Maggie's father, AB Coldwell, "one of Washington County, Arkansas best farmers, was shot & killed by a highwayman on returning from the Cherokee Nation Flint District Payment Office in 1894".
Mart and Maggie's 2nd child, a daughter they named Allie, was born only 10 months after the birth of their son, Ora. She & Mart divorced shortly after Allie was born.
Maggie remarried, a local widower, Edmond Cook, who died only two years after the birth of their son, Hugh Cook, leaving her widowed at the young age of 29.
From what I gather, she became ill and Maggie's Mother, Easter Swagerty-Coldwell, put Hugh into an orphanage, "The Holiness Industrial Children's Home" in Scott, Bourbon, Kansas. At some point, Maggie's first cousin, Mary Osborn-Carter and her husband, Samuel N. Carter, managed the orphanage. Maggie worked at the orphanage to be near him.
As for her other two children; her son Ora was raised by his Father and I believe her daughter, Allie, lived with her and probably Maggie's Mother.
I have no record of when she married her 3rd husband, Will Denham, but he murdered her & her Mother, (who was living with them) in 1929 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas in a fit of rage and then took his own life. She was only 55 years old.
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This person is buried in Block 8 Potters Field. Jon Boles Siloam Springs Parks and Recreation Manager and the overseer of this cemetery confirmed it. Potters Field only has 4 headstones and 3 are for military service. There is no headstone for this person. She is buried beside her husband and Easter Elizabeth Coldwell
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The smoldering ruins of a little farm dwelling six miles southeast of here, Siloam Springs, Ark. late Monday night marked the scene of one of the most gruesome tragedies in the annals of Northwest Arkansas and a coroner's report of a double murder and suicide lay beside three bodies in a local mortuary. The dead are: Will Dennam, 75 years old, his wife, 50 and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Esther Coldwell, 76. It is supposed by the officers that Dennam first killed his mother-in-law while she was in the act of preparing breakfast then set fire to the house. He then is thought to have met his wife at the barnyard gate where a struggle took place. Dennam finally stabbed his wife in the throat with a paring knife. He then slashed his own throat with a razor. According to J.L. Place and J.W. Glenn, neighbors, the quarrel came up over a new hat which had been bought some time last week and which Dennam refused to wear to town last Saturday. He told the men Sunday night about Mrs. Coldwell asking him why he did not wear his hat and said that when he left the house, she burned it up. She had nagged him about little things for the past four months, he said, and he could barely stand it at times. Place and Glenn said he seemed normal Sunday evening other than being low in spirits after a recent quarrel. When neighbors arrived at the scene, attracted by the smoke, they found the man and his wife lying in the back yard and Mrs. Coldwell on the floor of the kitchen of the burning dwelling, but unable to reach her, her body being burned beyond recognition.
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