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Margaret Mary Sickinger

Margaret Sickinger was the second child and first daughter of Catherine Tinneny and Michael Sickinger.  She was born in Philadelphia.  Margaret married late in life to Frank Maggioncalda an Italian who was born February 14, 1887.  After Frank’s death in December 1974, Margaret lived with a relative of her husband in the Northeast section of Philadelphia.  She had little to do with her brother Frank and his family since she didn't approve of him divorcing his wife Mary.   

Photo: Margaret Tinneny (1922) - Courtesy of her nephew Bob Sickinger.

 

 Photo: Margaret Sickinger right with friend Marie Rudolph. Courtesy of Bob Sickinger.

In  1998 Margaret wrote the following letter to her first cousin John McColgan, the son of her mother's sister Mary Jane Tinneny, and his wife Marie in which she reminisced and gave an update on herself: 

6/29/88

 

Dear Cousin John & Marie,

 

Thank you for your lovely letters. It’s so nice to hear about cousin John’s family that is doing so nicely in this troubled world of ours.

 

I know you and your lovely brothers and sisters were very close to my dear Mother Catherine as you know when your Dear Mother Mary was very sick my dear Mother traveled to Jersey and helped when my grandmother [Yankee Pat Tinneny’s wife Margaret] was working around the Holy Family Church day and night. They were the happy days going [to] visit Aunt Mary and Uncle John [Mary Jane Tinneny & husband John McColgan]. We were a close-knit family on my Dear Mother’s family.

 

On my Father’s side Father’s dad was a Civil War Veteran and came from Germany with a Title Von Anton Sickinger and was wounded in the War.  My cousin Florence (Florence Miller Mack was 90 years old.) she died in 1987.  She had our Family Tree finished and gave all the family history to my brother [Frank Sickinger].  He was to have copies made but you know my brother.  He never did.  History is always[s] repeating Wars and rumors of war.

I’m feeling much better and I’m now able to knit, attend classes in arts & crafts and am also a volunteer. I’m aloud to go on shopping trips also last Thursday we had 2 busses to Ocean City leaving at 9:00 a.m. and arrived at 11:00 a.m. dinner at 12:00. What a beautiful day it is.  Leaving at 4:00p.m. It was just about ready to rain and it did, arrived home at 6:00 p.m.  Never a dull moment.

 

I received a wonderful favor [from] My Lord, which I’m very happy about.  My husband’s daughter came to visit me after she heard I was mugged on the church ground, Incarnation of Our Lord’s Parish. When her Father died his children were all married and having families.  Bernice now 70 yrs old had 4 boys and 4 girls.  All but one girl is single and in her last year in college as a Doctor. 

 

I prayed for more than 13 years as a widow that someone would take care of me, as you know I’m the last one in my family.  My cousin Jean after visiting with me for 25 years and visiting me in Olney would come to dinner every week after shopping all day in down town and would sit down and enjoy a wonderful dinner with me and my beloved husband Frank A. Maggioncalda.  He was the Frank the 8th in French Italian.

 

His parents came from Switzerland and settled in Vineland and raised his family (6 boys and 4 girls) also build many landmarks still standing (made many bricks which are on the main streets of Vineland. My brother Frank was the first grandchild. 

 

My Dear Mother Katherine [Yankee Pat’s daughter Katherine Tinneny] came to USA in 1893, and I had the pleasure of the sewing box all these years.  It will be 100 years old in 1993.  [She] also worked in the mills in Manayunk to bring the whole family to the USA what a wonderful model of a Mother I had, could play the violin and mandolin, also taught music at St. Mary’s School in Manayunk.

 

God has been extra good to me which makes me feel very happy to be in a wonderful home Philadelphia Protestant and will celebrate 100 years in 1990.

 

Have a wonderful 4th of July and have fun. 

Love L3M’s 

When her brother Frank died Margaret was called by his daughter but did not attend the funeral.  Margaret and her husband had no children.   As of January 1996, Margaret was 93 years old and lived in Saint Joseph's Home for the Aged at 1182 Holland Road, Holland, Pennsylvania 18966.

Note:  Margaret had no descendants



 

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