Magdalena Mock

Magdalena was born in 1785.  She died 24 Feb 1852 in Taneytown, Carroll, Maryland, and was buried in Trinity Lutheran, Cemetery. 

Magdalena never married.  Her name was often the first on the various petitions and complaints to the court regarding her father’s estate.  I am assuming that she is the Magdalena Mock who died 24 Feb 1852 and is buried in the Trinity Lutheran Cemetery located off of Pump House Road in Taneytown, about five miles from where Peter Sr. is buried in Tyrone.

Unfortunately, two readings of her tombstone disagree somewhat as to her age at death.  One, cited as “Tombstone inscriptions transcribed on 1 October 1889 and published in The Democratic Advocate newspaper on 14 December 1889”, available on midmdroots.freewebspace.com/carroll/cemeteries/trinity.htm, gives 66y 2m 8d, leading to a birth date of 16 Dec 1785.  The other, in the History of Washington County ... by Thomas John Chew Williams, reads 66y 11m 29d, and so a birth on 26 Feb 1785.  The first, latest date, is about 18 months before Samuel was born, and the other about 16 months after Catharine, so either date is possible from that standpoint.

Note that her brother Christian named a daughter after Magdalena.  It’s also interesting that Peter married a Maria Magdelena, and had by her a daughter Mary Magdaline (as spelled in her obituary), then with his second wife Elizabeth named another daughter Magdalena.

Magdalena could have been one of the females censused in her father’s home in 1810, or in that of her brother Peter II.  After that, I’ve not been able to identify her in any census record, although she is mentioned in all of the court proceedings in re her father’s estate.

         died  Tue 24 Feb 1852

         @age       8   2   66

         born  Fri 16 Dec 1785

         died  Tue 24 Feb 1852

         @age      29  11   66

         born  Sat 26 Feb 1785