Mary K. Straw

  General Notes:

1860 Crawford county, OH
Mary A. Straw age 4 is living with her parents

In 1880 census Pulaski, OH she is single, a teacher, and living with her parents
She is also listed in 1880 as an instructor for the Deaf And Dumb Asylum, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio

American Annals of the Deaf
By Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf, Conference of Superintendents and Principals of American Schools for the Deaf, Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf, Conference of Educational Administrators Serving the Deaf, Project Muse
Published by American Annals of the Deaf., 1903
Item notes: v. 48-49; v. 105
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Apr 28, 2006
Mary B. Straw died at her home in Pulaski, OH on OCTOBER 8, 1904 of appendicitis at age 48. Her father was deaf from birth and she became partly deaf from sickness in childhood. She was educated in the Ohio Institution and taught there acceptably from 1876-1890.

obit (The Bryan Democrat) 13 Oct 1904
"PULASKI TOWNSHIP
Mary Straw, a deaf mute, middle aged lady, who lived alone on her farm in this community, was taken dangerously sick Friday night. She started for Mr. Christman's, one of her neighbors, who assisted her into the house. Dr. Pugh was called, and all that medical skill and kindness could suggest was done, but she died in great agony about midnight. She owned a nice home here, and has no near relatives."

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