Agnes and Peggy Timeline
1919 25 December Agnes, Molly, and Margaret arrive to live in Reedsburg
1920 16 January Reception to introduce the family to the church
1920 1 April Peggy and Molly go to Baraboo
1920 18 June Molly and Margaret meet Agnes in Chicago
1920 14 August Agnes goes to Devils Lake near Reedsburg with friends.
1920 Agnes joins the Aretean Literary Society Muskingum
1920 15 July Margaret participates in an outing at Devils Lake.
1921 Agnes and Martha Wilson of Pittsburg visit Zanesville
1922 Agnes joins Girls Glee Club
1922 Agnes Plays Aengus Aroon in the “Twig of Thorn”
1922 Agnes joins the Erodelphian Society
1922 21 November Agnes visits Mary Ogilvie in East Liverpool, Ohio.
1922 Agnes joins Delta Gamma Theta
1922 Agnes joins Delta Gamma Theta
1922 Agnes joins Girls Glee Club
1922 Agnes Plays Aengus Aroon in the “Twig of Thorn”
1922 Agnes joins the Erodelphian Society
1922 21 November Agnes visits Mary Ogilvie in East Liverpool, Ohio.
1922 Agnes joins Delta Gamma Theta
1922 Agnes joins Delta Gamma Theta
1922 Agnes joins Girls Glee Club
1922 Agnes Plays Aengus Aroon in the “Twig of Thorn”
1922 Agnes joins the Erodelphian Society
1922 21 November Agnes visits Mary Ogilvie in East Liverpool, Ohio.
1922 Agnes joins Delta Gamma Theta
1922 Agnes joins Delta Gamma Theta
1922 3 February Molly entertains at the high school
1922 10 March Margaret plays violin in the orchestra at Reedsburg High.
1922 4 April Margaret participates in a declamatory speech contest with “Ole Mistus.”
1922 14 April Margaret performs toe dancing ballet in a green tarlatan dress. Tarlatan or tarlatan is a thin open-weave cotton that is stiffened, giving it more shape than gauzy muslins.
1922 28 April Margaret attends the Junior Prom with Marden Phillips.
1922 11 May Molly entertains at the high school for a second time.
1922 9 June Molly sings during a band competition. Margaret’s boyfriend is in the band.
1922 16 June Margaret and Molly perform for a Cadet Band Benefit as Mesdames Moorehead, according to the paper.
1922, 16 June: It was announced that Margaret and Molly would be going to Chicago.
1922, 22 December: Margaret gave a speech on “Charity” at the banquet.
1923 Agnes is listed as a junior with the specification of T.T.(talented terpsichorean”
1923 Agnes is listed as a member of the Girls Glee Club and seated by the director
1923 Agnes group Erodelphian
1923 Agnes group Delta Gamma Theta
1923 Agnes Club Red Letter
1923 Muskingum Barometer lists Agnes and Ross as Stormy
1923 10 August Agnes sings in Reedsburg at a service with her mother.
1923 21 September It is announced in the papers Margaret will be going to Aurora, Illinois, and no school name is given
1923 September 29, Agnes departs for Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin, to teach for the coming year. She did not graduate from Muskingum until 1924
1923. On 15 November, Molly and Agnes returned from Milwaukee on Friday.
1923 23 November-5 December Margaret is in Reedsburg for the holidays.
1923 7 December Rev. J.H. Moorehead accompanies his daughter Margaret to her Aurora, Illinois school on Tuesday morning.
1924 Agnes graduated from Muskingum with a Bachelor of Science in Biology.
1924 Agnes attends summer sessions at Columbia University
1924 Agnes spent Thanksgiving in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, with friends
1924 8 January returns to school duties at Soldiers Grove
1924 24 January joins the Rebecca Lodge
1924 7 February performs doing a reading at the Washington Lincoln Celebration
1924 8 April Margaret goes to Reedsburg for vacation.
1924 5 June Agnes goes to Baraboo with family
1924 10 June Close a successful year of teaching at “Crawford Company” and has visited Ohio.
1924 4 July an announcement is made that Agnes will attend summer sessions at the University of Wisconsin, not Columbia.
1924 11 July Margaret goes to Devils Lake with friends, and Molly chaperones them.
1924 1 August Margaret visits Agnes and her friend Miss Thompson in Madison.
1924 13 August Margaret attends a picnic at Skillet Creek with her parents and many other guests.
1924 24 September Margaret attends a picnic at Gibraltar Cliffs before they depart for St. Louis.
1924 6 November Agnes goes to a teachers' convention in Milwaukee
1925 Zanesville In 1925, there was a reference in the Zanesville newspaper to the “Misses Agnes and Margaret Moorehead,” who returned to Saint Louis after visiting their grandfather. You can believe that they were a tandem, Aggie and Peggy.
1925 18 November Agnes performs in recital at Soldiers Grove
1926 25 February Agnes performs a song at Washington Lincoln event
1926 17 June Agnes returns to St. Louis from Soldiers Grove
1926 12 July Agnes and Margaret leave for their grandparents from the Bruning home in Hamilton, where they had been since Thursday.
1926 5 August Upon returning to Soldiers Grove, she announces via newspaper that she is looking into a teaching position in Honolulu and claims to have lost several hundred dollars in a bank failure in Soldiers Grove. Agnes states she majored in music.
1926 14 August Agnes auditions for Charles Jehllinger at AADA.
1926 4 December: I was a victim of the failure of Soldiers Grove Bank to the tune of $300. She also makes a point of announcing her father is a minister.
1927 3 July Margaret is in Knoxville, and Miss Ruby Anderson is her guest.
1927 30 July Maternal grandfather Terence Edward McCauley dies of a fracture to the base of his skull at an iron mill in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio. He does not live with his wife Margaret, who is in Canton, Ohio.
1927 5 August Agnes is announced as teaching English and Public Speaking at Soldiers Grove
1927 18 August Margaret is in Knoxville, Tennessee, visiting Mrs. W.D.
Kincaid.
1927, 19 August, a luncheon is given in Margaret’s honor.
1927 20 October Attends football game U of Wisc. with friends
1927 27 October Leaves Soldiers Grove on Sunday to attend AADA. She also states she’s taught at Soldiers Grove for five years.
1927 11 November Paternal grandmother Hannah Humphrey Moorehead dies of old age.
1928 8 April Margaret has been employed by public health in St. Louis through March.
1928 3 May returns from New York to Soldiers Grove to finish the remainder of school
1928 21 June Agnes is visiting friends in Baraboo, Wisconsin.
1929 22 January Announces upcoming graduation from AADA and states will return home in March. She says she may join a company in New Orleans.
1929 2 April Now a graduate of AADA
1929 29 April Paternal grandfather Robert Moorehead dies of old age and a thigh fracture.
1929, 10 July, Agnes leaves Dayton and returns to New York.
1929 10 July Sister Peggy suffers “an attack,” which turns out to be the beginning of her suicide
1929 12 July Molly telegrams Agnes: “Things are not so well come at once.”
1929 14 July Sister Peggy commits suicide by drinking bichloride of mercury four days earlier. She dies at 7:50 a.m. at the age of 23. She is not the first to commit suicide in the family.
1930 15 May A report is made of a Scotch Collie named Kenmuir McTarvish Moorehead was found and returned to Agnes’ parents, and a note is made that during a trip home last summer, Agnes took the brother of the dog named Laddie back with her to New York. No mention is made of the exact date.
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