CAMPBELL, Mary

Miss Mary Campbell

UPDATE - Mary Campbell has been claimed by her grandson and is going home!

Identification on photo: Miss Mary Campbell
Photo taken: Talbot Studio, New Berlin, NY circa 1909-1910
Purchased: Aug 2018 Madison-Bouckville NY Antiques Week

This photograph was found along with the ten photos of students of the Class of 1909, New Berlin, NY. Because this one did not bear the same mark "Class of 1909", and because she is identified with the title "Miss", I assumed she may be a teacher at the school at about that same time.  My suspicion turned out to be correct, as that is exactly her occupation according to the 1910 census from nearby Edmeston NY.

1910 Census > NY > Otsego > Edmeston
CAMPBELL, William, head, 51, born in NY of NY parents, doctor
CAMPBELL, Nancy H., wife, 50, born in NY of NY parents, no occupation
CAMPBELL, Mary T., daughter, 23, born in NY, teacher at High School
CAMPBELL, Eliza M., mother, 71, born in NY of NY parents

Mary Theresa Campbell was born on Sept 3, 1886 in Westford, Otsego county, NY, as the only child of parents Dr. William Bailey Campbell (1858-1943) and Nancy H. Reynolds (1859-1930). The doctor and his wife are shown in the photo at left, which I found on Ancestry.com (I do not possess that image and only post it here for further information.)

April 27, 1912, she married Rev. Hiram Grant Conger (1885-1971) and they had five children:

• Theodore William Conger (1913-1995) married Florence (surname unknown).
• Mary Jean Conger (1917-2004) married Francis R. Nitchie (d. 2014)
• Reynold Campbell Conger (1918-1988) married Anna Heck.
• Franklin Conger ( - )
• Wilma Conger ( - ) married Charles V. Perrill.

Mary died in August 1955 at Summit, Union County, NJ. She is buried at Union Cemetery in Edmeston NY, next to her husband, and near her parents.  This image of her headstone was found at her memorial on FindaGrave.