From her marriage record and census records, it appears that she was born in April 1883 and not 1873. The census records after 1900 are in Davenport, Iowa. By the 1920 census, Maud is enumerated as "divorced."
Poweshiek County, Iowa Marriage Records
Page 269, license 3336
May 25, 1898 in Brooklyn, Poweshiek, Iowa
Samuel Forgie, age 27, born Ireland to Maud May Porter, age 15, born Brooklyn, Iowa
Groom’s Parents: Samuel Forgie and Isabella Brown
Bride’s Parents: Moses H Porter and Mary Alice K?
1900 Census, Bear Creek Township, Brooklyn town, Poweshiek, Iowa, Enumeration District 95, Page 12A, family 293, NARA microfilm publication T623
Samuel Forgie, born January 1869, Ireland; parents born Ireland; immigration 1871;
Maud M. Forgie, born April 1883, Iowa, age 17; parents born Ohio and Michigan;
Thelma Forgie, born October 1899, Iowa
Years Married: 2 (1898); mother of 1 child/1 living;
1910 – Maude age 27 in Census; 1920, Maude, age 36 in Census
Possible marriage:
The Guthrian --Guthrie County, Iowa
29 April 1952
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Ernest E. Hall, legal age, Linden, Iowa to Maude M. Forgie, legal age, Fairfield, Iowa
Possible death date in Moline, Illinois or Davenport, Iowa for Maude:
January 20, 1954
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