Family tree Servaes, Maastricht/Venlo/Straelen/Neuss/Düsseldorf » Catherine A. "Kate" Morton (1869-1904)
Personal data Catherine A. "Kate" Morton
- Nickname is Kate.
- She was born in the year 1869 in Pennsylvania, USA.
- Fact: (vermelding) .Source 1
What became of a young widow and her baby boy, with no livelihood in Irish Creek? We learned in a brief snippet from the Westmoreland Recorder, 22nd of October, 1896, that Kate Morton Donahy moved with her son, Lloyd, to make their home in Leavenworth, KS. Kate Donahy appears in the Leavenworth city directory
up until 1902; but there is no record of her after that. Kate had two sisters living in Leavenworth, Mary (Mrs. John) Purcell, and Eleanor (Mrs. Martin J.) Eggert.
When Lloyd attended school at St. Mary's College in St. Marys, KS, in 1907-1908, his "mother" was listed as Mrs. M. J. Eggert. - She died on May 6, 1904 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, she was 35 years old.
- She is buried in Mount Saint Marys Cemetery Kansas City, Missouri, Verenigde Staten.
- A child of John Morton and Kate Kelly
- This information was last updated on March 7, 2019.
Household of Catherine A. "Kate" Morton
(1) She is married to Cornelius Ambrose Donahy.
They got married on November 8, 1891, she was 22 years old.
Child(ren):
- William Loyd Donahy 1892-1928
(2) She is married to Wilhelm Hubert Heinrich Anton Servaes.
They got married on November 28, 1896 at Leavenworth County, Kansas, Verenigde Staten, she was 27 years old.Source 2
Name:William H. Servaes
Birth Date:1866
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Age:30
Spouse's Name:Catharine A. Donahy
Spouse's Birth Date:1870
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Spouse's Age:26
Event Date:28 Nov 1896
Event Place:Leavenworth County, Kansas
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Indexing Project (Batch) Number:M00291-2
System Origin:Kansas-EASy
GS Film number:1854530
Reference ID:8869
Citing this Record:
"Kansas, Marriages, 1840-1935," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWLP-DMN : accessed 18 December 2014), William H. Servaes and Catharine A. Donahy, 28 Nov 1896; citing Leavenworth County, Kansas, reference 8869; FHL microfilm 1,854,530.
Child(ren):
- Agnes Mary Servaes 1897-1980
- Harry Jerome Servaes 1900-1935
- NN Servaes 1904
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Sources
https://people.creighton.edu/~dsm09594/WLDonahy.html
"Kansas, Marriages, 1840-1935," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWLP-DMN : accessed 18 December 2014), William H. Servaes and Catharine A. Donahy, 28 Nov 1896; citing Leavenworth County, Kansas, reference 8869; FHL microfilm 1,854,530.
Historical events
Day of marriage November 28, 1896
- The temperature on November 28, 1896 was about -4.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
- In the year 1896: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
- January 28 » Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, becomes the first person to be convicted of speeding. He was fined one shilling, plus costs, for speeding at 8mph (13km/h), thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit of 2mph (3.2km/h).
- March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
- March 20 » With the approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened, marking the beginning of a postal service in China.
- May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
- June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
- August 30 » Philippine Revolution: After Spanish victory in the Battle of San Juan del Monte, eight provinces in the Philippines are declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas.
Day of death May 6, 1904
- The temperature on May 6, 1904 was between 4.6 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
- Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
- In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
- In the year 1904: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 5.4 million citizens.
- January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
- February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
- April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
- June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
- June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
- July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
Same birth/death day
- 1882 » Thomas Henry Burke, Irish civil servant (b. 1829)
- 1902 » Bret Harte, American author and poet (b. 1836)
- 1905 » Robert Herbert, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of Queensland (b. 1831)
- 1907 » Emanuele Luigi Galizia, Maltese architect and civil engineer (b. 1830)
- 1910 » Edward VII of the United Kingdom (b. 1841)
- 1919 » L. Frank Baum, American novelist (b. 1856)
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A.R. Servaes, "Family tree Servaes, Maastricht/Venlo/Straelen/Neuss/Düsseldorf", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-servaes/I2267.php : accessed January 26, 2026), "Catherine A. "Kate" Morton (1869-1904)".