Margaret Bennett

Margaret Bennett was born on 8 October 1874 to Mr. and Mrs. William G. Bennett of West Virginia.

She married accomplished lawyer Robert Crain (1866-1928) in 1898. They had four children that lived to adulthood: Robert Crain, Jr.; William George Bennett Crain, Sr.; Eleanor Morgan Crain McPeck; and Margaret Crain Pittroff.

As an adult, Margaret lived in Washington, D. C. and Baltimore, Maryland. In 1933, after Robert's death in 1926, she married Louis Richmond Cheney (1859-1944) and moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Margaret and Louis lived on Woodland Street. She died of a heart attack at their home on 22 December 1940.

Source: FindAGrave.com (accessed 3/2/2024), primary sources on Ancestry.com, and an article entitled "L. R. Cheney Will Be Wed in Baltimore" which was published in the "Hartford Courant" on November 26, 1933.