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Mabel Gregg MacDonald

Daughter of Edward Gregg · 1878–1968

Mabel Gregg MacDonald

Confirmed

Daughter of Edward Gregg · 1878–1968

Born
17 November 1878
Died
30 January 1968
Parents
Edward Gregg & Elizabeth Darling
Married
William Spicer MacDonald
Sources
9

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the daughter of Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling and the sister of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger. Her own 1968 death certificate, read from the image, names her father as Edward Gregg and her mother as Elizabeth Darling and gives her birth on 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels S931; her 1906 marriage docket, read from the image, gives the same birth date and place and her middle name, Darling S930; the 1880 census, read from the image, has Mabel, 1, in Edward and Lizzie Gregg's household at Carmichaels S416. Card added 1 October 2026

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1878
Born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, Greene County, Pennsylvania S930S931
Arrival1918
🆕 On 12 September 1918 her husband registered for the draft at Greensburg: William Spicer MacDonald, 38, of 550 Harrison Avenue, born 31 October 1879, a naturalized citizen, commercial representative of the C. D. Telephone Co.; nearest relative “Mabel Gregg MacDonald, wife”, of the same address Confirmed S1107. His docket of 1906 gives his birth year as 1876 S930
Residence1920
At 550 Harrison Avenue, Greensburg, in 1920 S1028, and at 224 Underwood Avenue in 1930, 1940 and 1950 S1029S1030S1031
Death1968
Died a widow on 30 January 1968 in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County S931
Record1913
🆕 The Greensburg birth certificate of her third child, a daughter born in June 1913, gives her as Mabel Gregg, 34, born at Carmichaels, and her husband as William S. McDonald, 35, a salesman born at North Sydney, Nova Scotia. Three children were then living Confirmed S1135.

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1906
Married William Spicer MacDonald, a clerk of New York, in Westmoreland County on 21 November 1906, she then of East Liberty S930

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Mabel Gregg MacDonald · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

9 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S4161880 U.S. Federal Census — Edward Gregg household, Carmichaels Borough, Greene Co., Pennsylvania (ED 69, page 3, dwelling 29, lines 31–34). Ancestry record 29464210. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Edward Gregg, 30, works in a planing mill, born Pennsylvania; wife Lizzie, 26, born Virginia; daughters Ethel, 4, born Pennsylvania, and Mabel, 1; enumerated 2 June 1880. Ethel's 1957 death certificate (S423) gives her birth at Carmichaels on 27 November 1875 and her parents as Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling; Lizzie is taken as Elizabeth. The page gives Lizzie's birthplace as Virginia on her own line and Pennsylvania on Ethel's; Virginia is held, unconfirmed. An Aaron Gregg, 54, shares the dwelling; the page does not say how he is related.
  2. S930Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, marriage licence docket no. 22966 — William Spicer MacDonald and Mable Darling Gregg, 21 November 1906. Ancestry record 902840657. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed William Spicer MacDonald, clerk, of New York, born 31 October 1876; and Mable Darling Gregg, of East Liberty, born at Carmichaels on 17 November 1878. Licence 20 November; married 21 November 1906 by Rev. Wm. J. Miller. The bride gave her own birth date. Her middle name is her mother's maiden name. The docket gives the groom's birthplace as Scotland; his daughter's 1913 birth certificate gives North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
  3. S931Pennsylvania death certificate — Mabel Gregg MacDonald, 30 January 1968, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County. Ancestry record 15192131. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Mabel Gregg Mac Donald, widow of William S., of 224 Underwood Avenue, Greensburg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, died 30 January 1968; father Edward Gregg, mother Elizabeth Darling; buried at St. Clair Cemetery 1 February 1968. The same parents and birthplace as her sister Ethel's certificate (S423).
  4. S10281920 United States Federal Census — Greensburg Ward 1, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district 102, sheet 6A. Ancestry record 34590930. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 550 Harrison Avenue: William S. MacDonald, 43, born Canada, salesman; Mabel, 40, born Pennsylvania; four daughters. Read from the image.
  5. S10291930 United States Federal Census — Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district 65-43, sheet 11A. Ancestry record 56812695. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 224 Underwood Avenue: William Macdonald, trust officer at a bank; Mabel, wife, 47, married at 23; four daughters. Her age is about four years short of her 1878 birth.
  6. S10301940 United States Federal Census — Greensburg Ward 7, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district 65-58, sheet 8A. Ancestry record 18749987. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 224 Underwood Avenue, owned, $9,000: William S., 64, born Canada, trust officer at a savings bank; Mable, 61, the informant; three daughters. Read from the image.
  7. S10311950 United States Federal Census — Greensburg, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, enumeration district 65-86, sheet 74. Ancestry record 243969794. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed 224 Underwood Avenue: William MacDonald, 73, born Canada, bank trust officer; Mable G., wife, 71, born Pennsylvania; a daughter. The index reads the street as “Westerwood”.
  8. S1107U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917–1918 — William Spicer MacDonald, Local Board Division No. 1, Westmoreland County, Greensburg, 12 September 1918. Ancestry record 118540489. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 1 October 2026. Confirmed William Spicer MacDonald, 550 Harrison Ave., Greensburg, 38, born 31 October 1879, white, a naturalized citizen; commercial representative, C. D. Telephone Co., W. Pittsburgh St., Greensburg; nearest relative Mabel Gregg MacDonald, wife, of the same address; tall, medium build, gray eyes, black hair.
  9. S1135Pennsylvania certificate of birth no. 88934, Greensburg, Westmoreland County, 1913 (MacDonald). Ancestry record 335142870. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed A daughter, born 3 June 1913, the third child of her mother, 3 living; father William S. McDonald, 35, salesman, born North Sydney, Nova Scotia; mother Mabel Gregg, 34, housewife, born Carmichaels, Greene County. Only the parents’ details are given here.

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