Primary Name: Crenshaw, Margaret Agnes

Filed as: Crenshaw, Margaret Agnes

Also known as: Margaret "Mary" Agnes Williams, Mary Agnes Crenshaw

Occupation / Association: Charter Member, Pioneers of Alaska Women's Igloo No. 6

Born: August 6, 1866, London, England

Died: October 30, 1925, Juneau, Alaska

Associated places: London, England; Washington; Juneau, Alaska

Keywords: Margaret Agnes Crenshaw, Mary Agnes Williams, Juneau Alaska pioneer women, Pioneers of Alaska Women's Igloo 6 charter member

Biography

Margaret "Mary" Agnes Williams Crenshaw was a Charter Member of Juneau Women's Igloo No. 6 of the Pioneers of Alaska.

She was born on August 6, 1866, in London, England. She immigrated to the United States in 1875.

Margaret married William Crenshaw in 1883. The couple had three children: daughters Ida May Crenshaw, born in January 1886 in Washington; Margaret Viola Crenshaw, born in June 1894 in Washington; and a son, Quinton Crenshaw, born in September 1889 in Alaska.

The family moved to Juneau in 1887, where William worked as a cook.

Mary Agnes Crenshaw died in Juneau on October 30, 1925.

Sources

1900 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau; Biographies of Alaska-Yukon Pioneers, Volume 5, p. 213; Alaska Daily Empire, October 31, 1925; Alaska Death Certificate