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Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling

Mother of Ethel Gregg Proeger · about 1854–1891

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling

Confirmed

Mother of Ethel Gregg Proeger · about 1854–1891

Born
about 1854
Died
30 May 1891
Married
Edward Gregg
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED as the mother of Ethel Gregg, wife of Frederick Albert Proeger. Ethel’s 1957 Pennsylvania death certificate, read from the image, names her mother as Elizabeth Darling S423; the 1880 census, read from the image, has Lizzie, 26, as Edward Gregg’s wife at Carmichaels, Greene County, with daughters Ethel, 4, and Mabel, 1 S416. FamilySearch indexes the same household (1:1:MWFF-3W2) with Lizzie as Ethel’s mother. Added to the tree on Earl’s approval of 28 September 2026. Added 29 September 2026

Life in the order the records give it

Birth1854
Born about 1854 in Virginia, by her age of 26 in 1880 S416 and of 36 years 11 months at her death S925
Burial1891
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling died 30 May 1891 at Pittsburgh (20th Ward), of pneumonia, aged 36, as Lizzie D. Gregg, formerly of Carmichaels, and buried at Carmichaels on 1 June 1891 S925

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage
Wife of Edward Gregg S416
Children1875
Mother of Ethel Gregg (1875–1957), who married Frederick Albert Proeger S423, and of Mabel Gregg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, whose own death certificate also names her mother as Elizabeth Darling S931

Open questions what is probable, weak or missing — confirm or correct it

Weak or missing
What is weak: her maiden name Darling rests on her two daughters’ death certificates S423S931 and on Mabel’s middle name, Darling, in her 1906 marriage docket S930; the 1891 register gives only the initial D. Her parents and her marriage, about 1875, have not been found. The birth date of 21 June 1853 and the middle initial “B” that some trees give her are unsourced, and 1853 is a year earlier than her ages allow

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Elizabeth “Lizzie” Darling · Sources

Citations

Sources cited on this card

5 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S4161880 U.S. Federal Census — Edward Gregg household, Carmichaels Borough, Greene Co., Pennsylvania (ED 69, page 3, dwelling 29, lines 31–34). Ancestry record 29464210. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Edward Gregg, 30, works in a planing mill, born Pennsylvania; wife Lizzie, 26, born Virginia; daughters Ethel, 4, born Pennsylvania, and Mabel, 1; enumerated 2 June 1880. Ethel's 1957 death certificate (S423) gives her birth at Carmichaels on 27 November 1875 and her parents as Edward Gregg and Elizabeth Darling; Lizzie is taken as Elizabeth. The page gives Lizzie's birthplace as Virginia on her own line and Pennsylvania on Ethel's; Virginia is held, unconfirmed. An Aaron Gregg, 54, shares the dwelling; the page does not say how he is related.
  2. S423Pennsylvania death certificate, file no. 18938 — Ethel Gregg Proeger, 19 February 1957, Greensburg. Ancestry record 7223935. Image examined, read 24 September 2026. Confirmed Ethel Gregg Proeger, widow of Frederick A. Proeger, of 302 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Greensburg, retired homemaker, born 27 November 1875 at Carmichaels, Pa., died 19 February 1957 at Greensburg, aged 81, of a cerebral haemorrhage; father Edward Gregg, mother Elizabeth Darling; buried 21 February 1957 at St. Clair Cemetery, Hempfield Township. Her parents are as the informant gave them. The marriage index names her father as A. E. Gregg; the two forms are not merged.
  3. S925Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, death register, 1891, p. 559 — Lizzie D. Gregg, 30 May 1891. Ancestry record 193310. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Lizzie D. Gregg, white, female, aged 36 years 11 months, died 30 May 1891 of pneumonia and convulsions; born in Virginia; late of the 20th Ward, Pittsburgh, for 1 year 7 months, previously of Carmichaels, Greene County; buried at Carmichaels 1 June 1891; undertaker Thomas B. Moreland. The D. fits her maiden name, Darling. Her age gives a birth about June 1854, in line with her age of 26 in 1880 (S416).
  4. S930Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, marriage licence docket no. 22966 — William Spicer MacDonald and Mable Darling Gregg, 21 November 1906. Ancestry record 902840657. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed William Spicer MacDonald, clerk, of New York, born 31 October 1876; and Mable Darling Gregg, of East Liberty, born at Carmichaels on 17 November 1878. Licence 20 November; married 21 November 1906 by Rev. Wm. J. Miller. The bride gave her own birth date. Her middle name is her mother's maiden name. The docket gives the groom's birthplace as Scotland; his daughter's 1913 birth certificate gives North Sydney, Nova Scotia.
  5. S931Pennsylvania death certificate — Mabel Gregg MacDonald, 30 January 1968, Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County. Ancestry record 15192131. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Mabel Gregg Mac Donald, widow of William S., of 224 Underwood Avenue, Greensburg, born 17 November 1878 at Carmichaels, died 30 January 1968; father Edward Gregg, mother Elizabeth Darling; buried at St. Clair Cemetery 1 February 1968. The same parents and birthplace as her sister Ethel's certificate (S423).

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