Lena Carrie DOCKERY

The children of Alexander Monroe Dockery and Mary Elizabeth Bird. All purportedly died at a young age. Very little information is available. Their exact place of death is unavailable. A M Dockery and family moved several times with his career changes.
A M and Molly married 1869.

The approximate birth and death dates for their children are from 1870 to 1903 when Mary died. If you read her obituary it says that all the children pre-deceased her and that they had 7 children. It also says that all the children are buried in Edgewood. There are 8 listed on the side of the monolith in Edgewood Cemetery.

Frank

Edward

Ida

Lena

Thomas

Charles

William (Probably William Willis - Willis being his grandfather's given name.)

Alexander Jr

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This is not the exact transcription from the obituary, but was taken from the OCR translation which had many errors and the paragraphs were out of order.

MRS DOCKERY DEAD
THE WIFE OF THE CHIEF EXECUATIVE SUCCUMBS TO HEART TROUBLE.
Mrs. Dockery, wife of Governor Dockery died in the Executive Mansion New Years Day 1903. She had been hovering between life and death for a number of days... It was in Chillicothe that Alexander M Dockery then a young physician met and wooed the girl who become his life companion The marriage took place in Chillicothe in 1869 and there are still many persons here who were present at the ceremony, it having been a conspicuous social event. Several years after their marriage in 1873 Dr. and Mrs. Dockery moved to Gallatin where Dr. Dockery engaged in the banking business. That continued to be their home until they moved to Jefferson City after Dr. Dockery’s election as Governor in the fall of 1900 Mrs. Dockery always accompanied her husband to Washington during the fourteen years that he was a member of Congress and was a favorite there among the wives of the Congressmen Possessed of an unusual degree of womanly sagacity and good judgment she was always the confidante and advisor of her husband who held her opinion in high regard And in return she gave to her husband the most devoted admiration and undivided love She was a woman whose lovable character attracted the affection of friends and whose many admirable qualities held the affection to the last Like her husband Mrs. Dockery was very fond of children and the one great sorrow that overshadowed their married life was that their seven children all died in infancy Seven little mounds in the Dockery lot in Chillicothe cemetery mark their burial place and their mother will be laid beside them One sister Mrs. Lincoln of Liberty and a brother George survive Mrs. Dockery. Another sister Mrs. Witten McDonald who was the wife of another well known ex-Chillicothean died several years ago Mrs. Dockery has been in poor health for a good many years but not until her recent and fatal attack was she prevented from attending to her social and household duties A few days before she was stricken she and Governor Dockery had issued invitations to their annual military New Year’s reception and ball The invitations were recalled Mrs. Dockery became ill.
The following is copied from the Constitution of Chillicothe Mrs. Dockery’s old home: Mrs. Dockery was formerly Miss Mollie Byrd of Chillicothe She was the daughter of Greenup Byrd [Bird] the first cashier of the Chillicothe Savings Association and was born in Clay county. She was about 52 years old.

Missouri Kirksville Kirksville Democrat
1903 Jan 09 2 Page 1

Contributed on 8/9/24

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