Another Lincoln death in China - Missionary Annie Glyde Macrum Lincoln, 1923
I ran across another interesting headstone notation - this time a husband and wife where the wife died in China and is not buried where she is memorialized. This was also my first time running into Consulate certificates and it was a very interesting bureaucratic paper trail.
Stowell Willie Lincoln was born in Windham, Connecticut, in 1856, a few years after his brother of the same name died at just about 1 year old. When Stowell was 39, he married Pittsburgh native Annie Glyde Macrum (b. 1864). He died in Texas a mere 3 years later but has a headstone in the Glyde family plot in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Apparently, he was brought back to Pennsylvania for burial even though his parents (George and Caroline Maria Lincoln) were both still living in New Rochelle, New York, and the Lincolns were steadfastly loyal to their family plot in North Windham, Connecticut.
The widowed Annie Lincoln then became a missionary to China and also claimed on some of her government documents to be a teacher there. According to her passport application in 1922, she claimed California as her U.S. residence, but she spent a year in Macao, from 1915 to 1916, and then lived in Canton, China, as well as Nanning, off-and-on from 1916 to 1923, when she caught malaria and died.
Though she has a memorial stone in Allegheny Cemetery, Annie Lincoln was buried in China. Anything of hers in China was given to her adopted son Chan Lim Quong.
Ship manifests indicate she did return occasionally to the U.S., including to San Francisco from Hong Kong in 1919 aboard the Anyo Maru. She was at her sister Mary Maynard’s house in Claremont, California, for the 1920 census.
I found no records of children from Stowell and Annie, or either of them separately, making them the end of the line. But an interesting end it must have been.