Margaret Burrows

   Another name for Margaret was Maggie Burrows.

  General Notes:

Grandson DeWayne B. Johnson wrote about Grandmother Talbot (Margaret Burrows Talbot) thus on 8/17/1986:

"My vague recollection, substantiated by I know not what, is that on one occasion when my family was visiting the ranch [in North Platte, Nebraska] Grandmother Talbot and I got mired in quick sand and she held me aloft as we sank into the gooey substance. needless to say, we were rescued, or I wouldn't be able to write this way to you today.

"Folklore has it also that she was gifted by remarkable superhuman strength on an occasion when a wagon collapsed on one of her sons and she lifted the entire load by the wagon axle until he could be pulled free. An impossible task under ordinary circumstances.

"I remember the smells of her farm kitchen and helping with the churning of butter. We trimmed the wicks of the kerosene lanterns. A small kitchen garden seemed always to be producing some good things to eat. I don't remember her passing."

  Research Notes:

Source: FamilySearch.org
Per http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp 1880 U.S. census, born in Illinois; parents born in Ireland.

Margaret married Absalom Owen Talbot Jr., son of Absalom Owen Talbot [Sr.] and Gooly Elmus Biddle, on 4 Jul 1875. (Absalom Owen Talbot Jr. was born on 28 Jan 1852 in Washington Co., Ohio, United States, died on 2 Mar 1925 in North Platte, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States and was buried on 5 Mar 1925 in Polk, Polk, Nebraska, United States.)