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Towards the end of last year, we wrote about two of the children of Margaret Anna (Maggie) Loney and Hector Hannah McLean.
Today we have three newspaper articles to share. One is the marriage announcement for another of Maggie and Hector’s daughters, Mary Isabelle McLean and her husband Roy Zaring. The others report a rather exciting time for Roy from a few months prior to their wedding.
Mary was born in Walla Walla 16 Jul, 1882. She married Roy in Jan of 1904. He was born 27 Oct, 1878, also in Walla Walla. Here is a newspaper article announcing their wedding.
The Evening Statesman Walla Walla, WA Tuesday, Jan 12, 1904
The article above mentions that Roy had previously been a guard at the state penitentiary. The article below chronicles how, just a few months before the wedding, Roy and another guard pursued and captured an escaped prisoner. The chase took place over one hundred miles through the most rugged part of the Blue Mountains.
The Evening Statesman Walla Walla, WA – Tuesday, Sep 08, 1903 Vol:30 Page:9
Another article in the paper the same day reports on the escape of another convict who, thinking that James Graff had been successful in his attempt, decided to try his luck. The excerpt below reports Roy’s involvement. It must have been an exhausting week for him and it is no wonder that when he got married four months later he was no longer working as a prison guard!
Loney Family from County Longford, Ireland 