Margaret Vance McCullough Photo & Artifacts

 

From the Then What? Part 9 Margaret Vance married Thomas Jefferson McCullough on 28 November 1849. She and her husband are in the Jackson County, Tennessee 1850 census record listed as having been married within the year. Family records show their only child, Mary Elizabeth, was born in 1851 and died 9 months later in Iowa. She and her husband traveled in the John Tidwell Company arriving in Salt Lake City between 10-23 September 1852 along with her father, Lewis Reno Vance and her brother John Wesley Vance. Her father died en route. The McCullough's and John Wesley Vance moved to Alpine in 1852.

They were prominent citizens. Margaret was Alpine's First Relief Society President, a position he held for 34 years. Her husband, Thomas, was the first Mayor of Alpine and served in that position from 1855-1883.

In the Alpine Relic Hall are many artifact items from this couple: Artifact 504 - a deed from Thomas McCullough to Mary Watkins, Artifact 522 candle stick brought across the plains from Tennessee by Margaret, Artifact 578 Wooden Peg & Square Metal Nail used in the construction of their home diagonally across from the Relic Hall, Artifact 625 Margaret's stachel, and  Artifact 643 book "Lectures to Young Men" owned by Thomas and the cloth binding was woven by his wife Margaret Vance McCullough.