BUTLER ? Mary Woodham Plank life was a long, interesting journey. But when she died at the age of 89 Butler, she emphasized her 1931 obituary relatively brief relationship with a future first lady.
Mansfield News noted they ?are trying days of the civil war, lived in the apartment of Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant as a companion to the wife of the famous general and the former president.? born1843 in London, England, Mary was 8 years old when her family crossed the Atlantic on the ship mechanic Own. It was in New York City.
In 1860 had the Woodhams in Galena, Illinois, where her father, Charles, carpenter down. This year?s grants came in Galena, where Ulysses took a job at his father?s tanning firm after 15 years living in the army and six failed to those who as a civilian. He would not stay long, reintegration into the army in 1861 when the war broke out. However, his wife and children in Galena was welcomed to his home in 1865 was like a conquering hero. A little more than three years later, they would live in the White House. In the census of 1860, Mary Woodham, aged 16, as a servant in the household of the vendor John Perkins, who lived not far from the classified grants. No doubt, the Woodham family who lived in another part of the city with six other children, had no objection to the additional income to feed a mouth or less. Julia Dent Grant, at 34 was the mother of four children aged from 10 to 2 and had her own maid, Emily Hodgkins, also 16 Exactly how and when Mary came to live in the Grant home, is not documented, but it seems unlikely, given the age difference, she was hired as her ?companion?. Since Julia has been said many trips during the war, her husband, whenever possible, Mary more of a companion, so may have been their children. But it was possible that a friendship developed. A short biography in the 1931 North Central Ohio, mentioned that she attended the Grant family in later years. ? By 1870, Mary was probably in St. Paul, Minnesota, where three brothers, including carpenters, lived. There she met a young miller, Elam Plank, of Worthington Township, and they married 1871st Elam was at this point on his own journey. Born in Wayne County, he came to Richland County in 1857 at the age of 15 when his father, Jonathan, bought the Grist Mill Kanaga In May 1864 he went to Bellville and enlisted in Company D, 163 Ohio Infantry, spending about four months on duty in and around Washington, DC After the war he went to Decatur and Danville, Illinois, and at the end running the mill in St. Paul for six years. In 1873, Elam and his wife came to Worthington Township, where he took over his father?s mill and ran it until his retirement in 1910, a year before his death. Elam and Mary had three daughters and Plank are in Independence Cemetery in Butler.buried on his grave marker is the means service in the civil war, although Mary time make sure their unofficial contributions to the general budget were also approved.
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