Mattie Eliza (Smith) Irrgang (1881)

Born 17 Apr 1881 in Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Wife of William Frederick Irrgang — married 7 Nov 1905 (to before 1919) in Holyoke, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States

Biography

Mattie, daughter of James W Smith and Emma E. Howland,^[1] was born in 1881.^[2] She grew up with her parents and sister Carrie in Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts, where her father was the superintendent at the paper mill.^[3]

In 1905, she married William Frederick Irrgang^[4] with whom she had a child, Ruth, in 1907.^[5] The family moved to Windsor Locks, Connecticut, where her husband was a draftsman in a factory.^[6] The marriage failed. By the time of the 1920 census, Mattie declared herself a widow^[7] (even though William was still alive and had remarried^[8]) and was a telephone exchange operator boarding in Becket, Massachusetts, without her daughter.^[7]

Mattie's story is unfinished as no further records have been found. She may have remarried and be buried under a different surname.

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, database, FamilySearch (10 February 2018), Mattie Eliza Smith, 17 Apr 1881; citing Dalton, Berkshire, Massachusetts, ; FHL microfilm 250,303.
2. ↑ Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915, database with images, FamilySearch (7 February 2018), Mattie Eliza Smith, 17 Apr 1881, Dalton, Massachusetts; citing reference ID #32, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,428,202.
3. ↑ United States Census, 1900, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 26 December 2018), Mattie E Smith in household of James W Smith, Precinct A Holyoke city Ward 7, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 552, sheet 11A, family 189, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,651.
4. ↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915, database with images, FamilySearch (24 May 2018), William F. Irrgang and Mattie E. Smith, 7 Nov 1905; citing Holyoke, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,057,622.
5. ↑ Massachusetts Births, 1841-1915, database with images, FamilySearch (11 March 2018), Mattie E. Smith in entry for Ruth M. Irrgaug, 1 Apr 1907, Holyoke, Massachusetts; citing reference ID #p 109, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,132.
6. ↑ United States Census, 1910, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 26 December 2018), William F Irigang, Windsor Locks, Hartford, Connecticut, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 246, sheet 30A, family 573, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 132; FHL microfilm 1,374,145.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} United States Census, 1920, database with images, FamilySearch (accessed 26 December 2018), Mattie S Irrgang in household of Patrick B Mc Cormick, Becket, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States; citing ED 9, sheet 3A, line 9, family 47, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 679; FHL microfilm 1,820,679.
8. ↑ Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915, database with images, FamilySearch (28 November 2018), William Frederick Irrgang and Ella Alida Wolfinger, 18 Dec 1919; citing Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 480,797.