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Margaret Mary <I>Baird</I> Faunce

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Margaret Mary Baird Faunce

Birth
Bridgeport, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
5 Mar 1986 (aged 89)
Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, USA
Burial
West Norriton Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Margaret Mary was the daughter of James Melvin and Margaret Mary (nee O'Hara) Baird, Sr.

Margaret married J. W. Spencer Faunce on 14 December 1912 in Wilmington, Delaware. They would have one daughter, Dorothy (Cummings, Kammerer).

From The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 19 December 1912, Thursday; Page 3

NORRISTOWN COUPLE ELOPE
Girl Whose Fiance Disappeared on Day of Wedding Is Married
Norristown, Pa., Dec. 18.-It was announced today that Spencer Faunce, aged 23, and Miss Margaret Baird, aged 17, had been married on Saturday at Wilmington, Del. When the girl left home she told her mother that she intended taking a trolley ride to Allentown. Instead she went to Wilmington.
The young bride was to have been married two years ago to a young man who disappeared on the day of the wedding. Later he turned up in Harrisburg, claiming that he had been drugged. When Miss Baird refused to have any more to do with him, he attempted suicide by jumping into Stone Creek. A friend rescued the lover.

From the Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) 7 March 1986, Friday; Page 16-D

FAUNCE
On March 5, 1986. Margaret of West Collingswood, N.J. formerly of Norwood, Pa. in her 90th year. Beloved wife of the late J. W. Spencer Faunce. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Dorothy and Harold Kammerer of West Collingswood. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service on Saturday 1 p.m. at Foster's Funeral Home, Collingswood, N.J. Interment Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Pa.
Margaret Mary was the daughter of James Melvin and Margaret Mary (nee O'Hara) Baird, Sr.

Margaret married J. W. Spencer Faunce on 14 December 1912 in Wilmington, Delaware. They would have one daughter, Dorothy (Cummings, Kammerer).

From The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 19 December 1912, Thursday; Page 3

NORRISTOWN COUPLE ELOPE
Girl Whose Fiance Disappeared on Day of Wedding Is Married
Norristown, Pa., Dec. 18.-It was announced today that Spencer Faunce, aged 23, and Miss Margaret Baird, aged 17, had been married on Saturday at Wilmington, Del. When the girl left home she told her mother that she intended taking a trolley ride to Allentown. Instead she went to Wilmington.
The young bride was to have been married two years ago to a young man who disappeared on the day of the wedding. Later he turned up in Harrisburg, claiming that he had been drugged. When Miss Baird refused to have any more to do with him, he attempted suicide by jumping into Stone Creek. A friend rescued the lover.

From the Courier-Post (Camden, New Jersey) 7 March 1986, Friday; Page 16-D

FAUNCE
On March 5, 1986. Margaret of West Collingswood, N.J. formerly of Norwood, Pa. in her 90th year. Beloved wife of the late J. W. Spencer Faunce. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law Dorothy and Harold Kammerer of West Collingswood. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service on Saturday 1 p.m. at Foster's Funeral Home, Collingswood, N.J. Interment Montgomery Cemetery, Norristown, Pa.


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