Notes for: Margaret Coogans

Margareet Coogans Coogan married Thomas Coogan. It is unusual that both spouses had the same name yet were from unrelated families. At times, the name was spelled Coogans but the "s" was dropped in time. Margaret died at the home of her son Thomas in Detroit on 30 August 1924; in attendance at the funeral were family and in particular son James Francis, his wife and son John Patrick, who had come from Swissvale, PA.

It was later commented by Aunt Kitty LaLonde that when Mrs. James Coogan died three years later no family representative from Detroit attended her obsequies, an event that annoyed the Pittsburghers to the extent that relations between the two families were broked off for about the next twenty-five years. It was also reported that Uncle John and Aunt Winnie had managed to obtain money from the Scottish bank in the name of their father John but did no share this with other family members, again causing dissention.