In the 1910 census, Mary Lennon is shown living with her son Pat in Seneca, but Patrick Lennon, Sr. is not enumerated. Patrick, Sr. may have been visiting in Fort Dodge at the time the census taker came through. Pat, Jr. died in 1919.
Patrick and Mary Lennon's daughter Maggie taught for a time in Crawford county rural schools. On November 27, 1899, she married Alfred White at St. James Catholic Church in Rising Sun, Wisconsin. They had four sons and three daughters. Maggie's second pregnancy was a set of twins, a boy and a girl, who died soon after their birth. The remaining five children all became teachers. Maggie died in 1936.
In 1912, Patrick and Mary Lennon traveled to Spokane, Washington to visit Mary's daughters, Mary and Nellie. While there, Patrick became ill with pneumonia and died at age 86 on February 27, 1912. His body was shipped back east to Rising Sun for burial as was his wish. The Lennon probate papers include a telegram from Nellie, who handled the shipping arrangements, which stated, "Mother is also very ill." At this point the personal records for this family end.
Mary died December 27, 1913, according to her tombstone and the Idaho death index. She is buried with her husband Patrick Lennon and his first wife, Ellen, in St. James Cemetery, Rising Sun, Wisconsin. All three names are on the stone.
Mary Lennon's place of death was first thought to be Spokane, but there was no record of her death there. As indexes and genealogical records became more available, she was found to have died in Orofino, Idaho. Postal forwarding addresses for Mary and Nellie Broderick from Spokane for the year 1912-13 indicate that after Patrick's death, Mary and Nellie traveled with their mother to visit relatives in Shelby, Montana and Orofino, Idaho, where Mary died.
After their mother's death, little was heard from Mary and Nellie by the relatives back in Wisconsin. Modern descendents assumed the women had family connections in Spokane and other western locales but until very recently did not know who those relations were. Now that she and Bridget Ahern Hogan are known to have been sisters, most likely twins, we can identify locations in Washington, Idaho, and Montana where Mary and Nellie's lives intersected with those of their first cousins, Bridget's children.