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"Taking care all she can.”
Born at Adena July 25, 1811, Margaret lived the longest of any of the Worthington children in their beloved home. When her father died in 1827, Margaret remained a companion to her mother Eleanor and assumed responsibilities for her siblings and their children. During the next twelve years, it became a family expectation that she would continue to do so.
Like her mother, Margaret was very religious and measured her daily actions in her diaries with the perception of what Henry Howe would later describe her as, “A Christian woman of the finest type.” Margaret was introspective and sensitive, caring greatly what others thought of her. Adena became a gathering place for her large circle of friends.
It came as a surprise to her family when, at the age of 28, Margaret married a Cincinnati widower, Edward Mansfield. He was a prominent newspaper editor and writer. Edward had two sons and he and Margaret would have four more children. They lived a number of years in Cincinnati and then built a home in Morrow, Ohio, near the Little Miami River. The setting was much like that of Margaret’s beloved Adena.
“Taking care of all,” Margaret and her sister Sarah King Peter were active in helping Civil War soldiers. While nursing these wounded, Margaret contracted a form of typhoid fever and died nearing the age of 51 in 1863. |
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