Ida Mae Crowe

1890 - 1977  (87 years)

• Name	Ida Mae Crowe
  Birth	27 Jun 1890	Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland
  Gender	Female
  Death	11 Aug 1977	Westernport. Allegany County, Maryland
  Notes	WESTERNPORT - Miss I. Mae Crowe, 87, of 400 Poplar Street, died Thursday night in Frostburg Community Hospital. A native of Lonaconing, she was a daughter of the late Charles and Annie (Brown) Crowe. Surviving are a son, Oliver Smith, here: two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Heim, Wadsworth, Ohio; Mrs. Mary Rimbaugh, Wurthland, Ky.; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Friends will be received at the Boal Funeral Home today from noon until 2 p.m. when services will be conducted with Rev. Sumner Sawyers officiating. Interment will be in Philos Cemetery. Cumberland News, August 13, 1977 Note on AllCoGenWeb on September 16, 2013: Ida Mae CROWE was born on 27 Jun 1890 and died on 11 Aug 1977 in Westernport, Allegany Co., MD at age 87. She had my grandfather, Oliver Crowe Smith, as a single mother, in 1911. She never married his father. According to the family his name was Billy Smith, and he wanted to marry her all their lives. He would visit and spend time with my grandfather when he was a child. When Oliver was about to marry my grandmother, Mae told them if he would marry with his father's last name of Smith, that she would marry Billy Smith. She never did, and when I tried to get her to talk about it, she would not. There are several Billy Smith's in the area at that time (big surprise), so I don't know for sure which one is him. On the censuses from the early 1900's, Mae and Oliver live with her parents, and Oliver is listed as Charles's son, then grandson. My tree on Ancestry is Smith-Metcalf 2012, if you want to take a look. A sad story and a mystery that I may never be able to solve. I also wonder why John F. and Elizabeth Porter Crowe died the same year, 1835. Was there an epidemic of some sort in Allegany County then? Their son, Thornton, was raised by the Porters, his mother's people. Note to Genie Ragan on September 25, 2013: So sad that she would never tell us about him, or let herself take a chance on happiness. My grandfather, Oliver, did not have an easy time of it growing up the child of a single mother in the early 1900's. At least you have provided me with a chance to fill in that terribly short branch on my family tree!! My dad, and his brothers and sister were always told that Mae was a friend of the family, who raised Pap after his parents died. My father was grown, and we had moved to Kentucky, before my mother told him who Mae was. Small town, where folks know more than they say, right? I was a young teenager then, and from that time on, always signed my cards for her, from your great-granddaughter. She never forgot a birthday, even after we moved to Kentucky in 1970. The very last birthday card she sent me before she died, she finally signed "your great-grandmother". She always lived with Oliver, and helped to raise her grandchildren, without letting them know who she really was. Just hard to understand. William "Billy" SMITH was born on 28 Jan 1879. He died on 13 Sep 1959 at the age of 80. Possibly William Smith's parents/family (courtesy of Genie Ragan): 1900 Census Lonaconing, Dist. 10; First Precinct #26 Detmold St. Smith, Peter head, white male, Apr 1845, 55 yrs., married 31 yrs., b. Scotland, both parents Scotland; immigrated 1863, in US 37 yrs. Naturalized; able to read, write, speaks English; coal miner Jane, wife, Jun 1847, 53 yrs., 9 children, 7 living; b. PA, both parents b. Scotland Peter, son, Mar. 1878, 22 yrs., b. MD; coal miner James, son, May 1880, 20 yrs., b. MD; coal miner Mary, dau, Nov 1882, 17 yrs., b. MD William, son, Dec. 1886, 13 yrs., b. MD; at school William SMITH and Ida Mae CROWE had the following child: 1261i.Oliver Crowe SMITH, born 1911; married Anna Virginia CAMPBELL.
  Person ID	I46520	McKenzie Genealogy
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	Charles Cecil Crowe,   b. 18 Apr 1870, Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland d. 1 Oct 1941, Westernport. Allegany County, Maryland (Age 71 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Annie Brown,   b. Abt 1870   d. 14 Oct 1940 (Age ~ 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	7 Aug 1890	Lonaconing, Allegany County, Maryland.
  Family ID	F16957	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart