PIKE, Mary E. (Nixon) 1873-1899

PIKE, NIXON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/30/2011 at 22:50:40

#1:

TRAGEDY AT OTRANTO

Mrs. Pike, wife of Fred Pike, living about five miles west of Otranto Station, committed suicide
by hanging herself yesterday afternoon. It is thought her suicide was due to temporary aberration of the mind as no other reason is known, the family were in good circumstances and there were no domestic troubles.

Mrs. Pike was about 25 years old and was a daughter of Wm. Nixon. They had been married four years and had three children.

[Lyle Tribune, Fri., Nov. 3, 1899, page 2]

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Mary Elizabeth Nixon Pike
(Credit: DM Scott)

#2:

Name: Mary E. Pike
Death Date: 2 Nov 1899
Page #: 107
Birth Date: 6 Feb 1873
Cemetery: Ogden
Town: Otranto
Level Info: Mitchell County, Iowa Grave Records

NOTE: On the Find A Grave Memorial…it says she was reinterred from Ogden Cemetery.

She is listed in the St. Ansgar Cemetery, same birth/death dates as above. She married Fred George Pike, the son of Edwin and Diana (Sumption) Pike

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#3: Iowa Marriages 1851-1900:

Name: Fred G. Pike
Spouse: Mary Nixon
Marriage Date: 1 Nov 1893
County: Worth
State: Iowa
(Credit: DM Scott)
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#4:

1895 Iowa Census: Deer Creek, Worth, Iowa:

Fred G. Pike, 24, born England.
Mary, wife, 22, born Wisconsin.
Wm. Nixon, 66, born England - father-in-law.
Ella Nixon, 17, born Wisconsin.
(Credit: DM Scott)
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#5:
1900 US Census: Deer Creek, Worth Co., Iowa:

Fred G. Pike widower, 29, born June 1870 Iowa

G. Pike, son, 5, born March 1895 Iowa --- (George Walter Pike)

Ada May, daughter, born May 1896 Iowa — Mrs.
Luellyn Gordon, (Ada May Pike)

Myrtie E., daughter, 1, born July 1898, Iowa
Mrs. Hans Emil Hansen (Myrtie Evelyn Pike)

(Credit: DM Scott)