St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery

Chester, Randolph County, Illinois

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Mary Pearl (nee Belsha) Mattingly

1891 - 1982

~ Great Grandfather ~

MARY PEARL (nee BELSHA) MATTINGLY was born on June 6, 1898, the daughter of John Logan Belsha and Mary Elizabeth (nee Hager) Belsha. Pearl married Lawrence Mattingly on September 9, 1919 at the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Belgique, Missouri. Lawrence was the son of Ferdinand and Mary (nee Redford) Mattingly. Pearl's sister, Mary Anna "Annie" Belsha, married Lawrence's brother, Pius. Pearl is buried next to her husband, who lived from 1891 - 1970. Pearl died in December, 1982 at the age of 84. She was our grand aunt, the sister of our grandmother, Mary Eleanora (nee Belsha) Gibbar and the aunt of our mother, Rose Anna (nee Gibbar) Bohnert.​