Maggie's Adventure Comes to a Close

Margaret Davis Barnett - "Aunt Maggie"

• second child of Robert Francis Barnett and Mary Elizabeth Turner
• born April 25, 1869; 
• Riner, Virginia
• died June 26, 1947; 
• Wallowa, Oregon

Trials & Tribulations for Maggie

I meant to post these letters before the business letter from Wallowa County. They were written ten years prior to the official one.

Discouraging News for Will

Grandpa Will received this letter in February 1947 and may be what prompted he and my Dad to travel west in April.

Note that Maggie had put her houses in Grandpa Will's name.

More Real Estate for Maggie

My dad, took these pictures and wrote on the back they were Aunt Maggie's houses. This was on the trip he and Grandpa Will made to visit Aunt Maggie in 1947, a few months before she died.

Not sure of the location on this.  Possibly 5th St. or Holmes St.

The 1940 Census has Maggie living on 2nd St. and renting but with the numerous records of failed mortgages she may have owned it and the mortgage holder allowed her to rent it after foreclosure. That's one hypothesis.

I found this on a Google Map of 2nd St. It is from in 2012. Looks like it might be the place. What do you think?

Back East

Today we are going to divert back to Pennsylvania and the Cooverts.
A fellow researcher from Texas who has ties to the West Liberty, Brady Twp. area of Butler County found this new article.

To refresh memories or introduce for the first time. W.C. Covert 'uncle Will' was Grandma Belle Barnett's brother. Della was his wife.


I had read in news of his death that Uncle Will was known in the Butler area for his horses but this article really reveals a lot more about that.

Does anyone have any idea where the Coovert Farm in Connoq. Twp. was?  Grandma and Grandpa's farm would have been know as the Barnett Farm. A new mystery to solve.

I can't help but wonder if it was the Holt Farm. Grandma and Grandpa rented there around the same time as this article. And it was the first home we bought in 1973.

Ironically Vivian recently mentioned remembering visiting Aunt Della in her older years. She lived at the Almira Home in New Castle.