Deborah Ruth BRACKEN

1857 - 1893  (35 years)

• Name	Deborah Ruth BRACKEN
  Born	15 Sep 1857	Thebes, Alexander, IL   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Birth	16 Sep 1857	Thebes, Alexander, IL   [2]
  Census	1860	, Alexander, IL
  Census	1870	, Alexander, IL
  Census	1880	, Alexander, IL
  Died	23 Aug 1893	, Alexander, IL   [1, 2]
  Buried	24 Aug 1893	, Alexander, IL   [1, 2]
  	Lindsey Cem
  Person ID	I759	Moore / McRaven Genealogy
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2018

  
  

  Father	William BRACKEN,   b. 1807, ,, SC ,   d. 20 Feb 1877, , Alexander, IL  (Age 70 years)
  Mother	Caroline Elizabeth KENDALL,   b. 4 Oct 1830, ,, PA ,   d. 17 May 1882, Clear Creek, Alexander, IL  (Age 51 years)
  Married	30 Jun 1855	, Alexander, IL   [3]
  Family ID	F128	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Patrick Henry MCRAVEN,   b. 16 Feb 1854, , Alexander, IL ,   d. 21 Nov 1910, E St Louis, St Clair, IL  (Age 56 years)
  Married	30 Mar 1879	, Alexander, IL   [2, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Chauncey Leroy MCRAVEN,   b. 12 Apr 1882, McClure, Alexander, IL ,   d. 9 Aug 1966, St. Louis, St. Louis, MO  (Age 84 years)   2. Maude Clodine MCRAVEN,   b. 2 Sep 1884, McClure, Alexander, IL ,   d. 3 Feb 1967, Phoenix, Miracopa, AZ  (Age 82 years)   3. Claude MCRAVEN,   b. 31 Jan 1887, McClure, Alexander, IL ,   d. 14 Oct 1952, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, MO  (Age 65 years)   4. Ruth MCRAVEN,   b. 10 Aug 1893, , Alexander, IL ,   d. 6 Sep 1893, , Alexander, IL  (Age 0 years)
  Last Modified	27 Feb 2019
  Family ID	F133	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  Bracken, Caroline Kendall (1830 - 1882); date unknown This was originally identified by Corinne McRaven Moore as Deborah Ruth Bracken McRaven. However, this painting is a copy of a cabinet card photograph. Someone has written across the top of the cabinet card "Grandma Bracken" which leads me to believe that this is actually Deborah's mother, Caroline Kendall Bracken. The cabinet card was in the possession of Vernon Lacey in 1994. The painting is in the possession of Jamie Burnett.

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Funeral Notice - Deborah Ruth McRaven; 1893 Kept by Maude McRaven Jaynes, later given to Corinne Moore, now in possession of Jamie Burnett
  		Signature Album - Cassie Bracken Presented to Cassie Bracken as a Christmas gift from her sister Debbie Bracken, 1890
  		Death Certificate - Dr. Claude Mc Raven, 1952
  		Death Certificate - Chauncey L McRaven, 1966

  
  

• Notes

  Cause of death: complications following childbirth 1860 Alexander, IL Census; page 79 taken 07 Jul, house 526 Brakin, Wm 53 SC farmer & B preacher $3800 real est $700 personal Elizbeth 38 PA housekeeper Racheal 18 IL Sarah 16 IL Martha 14 IL Louisa 12 IL Mary A 10 IL William 08 IL Willis Minton 12 IL Wlliam Minton 10 IL Deonsy? Minton 08 IL Michael Minton 06 IL Debby Minton 04 IL Jane Minton 01 IL William Amstrong 22 Ireland laborer $250 personal 1870 Alexander IL Census, taken 14 Jul in Thebes Precinct, house 18 Bracken, Wm 65 SC CE 42 PA Drew Minton 18 IL Wm Bracken 17 IL M Minton 16 IL Deboria Bracken 14 IL Jane " 11 IL Jacob " 10 IL Esau 08 IL Saml 03 IL Edna 10 IL 1880 Alexander IL Census, taken 24 Jul by PH McRaven, house 300 McRaven, PH 26 IL IL IL physician Debbie 23 wife IL SC PA keeping home JS 23 brother IL IL IL dry goods merchant Cairo Citizen - 31 Aug 1893 Death of Mrs. McRaven. Mrs. Deborah Ruth McRaven, wife of Dr. P. H. McRaven, of Wheatland, died last week Wednesday and was buried Thursday. We received the announcement of her death last Thursday after we had gone to press. Mrs. McRaven had been ill for some six or eight weeks with something like dysentery. On the 10th day of August she gave birth to a little daughter. From that time forward she was much worse, the disease assuming the form of enteritis with complications involving the liver. She died from exhaustion. Mrs. McRaven was born at Thebes in this county Sept. 16th, 1857, and was consequently in her 36th year. She was the daughter of William Bracken, one of the old pioneers of the county. He was a minister of the gospel and strongly attached to the Baptist church. Deborah Ruth Bracken married Dr. P. H. McRaven March 30th 1879. She leaves her husband and four small children, the youngest only thirteen days old at the time of its mother’s death. For the doctor and the little one it is a sad bereavement and they will receive the sincere sympathy of friends everywhere.

  
  

• Sources

  [S116] tombstone. [S88] Obituary, Cairo Citizen, 31 Aug 1893, Death of Mrs. McRaven. [S276] Illinois Marriages 1851-1900, (ancestry.com), abstract, no image of original source. [S7] Alexander Co IL Marriage Record, Book E, page 30.