Ellen (Nellie Rose) Hogan (1857-1932), Chicago mother of seven, Stephen Poth's great grandmother

 Ellen (Nellie Rose) Hogan (Aug 1857- Mar 15, 1932) 

This is Stephen D. Poth's great grandmother (Steve < Charles Douglas Poth < Amarylis A. Crane < Ellen Hogan) 

Nellie Rose Hogan, Doug Poth's maternal grandmother, was born in Chicago and lived there her whole life with the exception of two or three years in Kansas.  

Parents: 

Nellie's parents were Honora and John Hogan, both born in Ireland.  Honora married a second time (presumably after John's death) to John Graham,  and we find the Graham family in 1870 living in the 5th ward, Chicago, with Nellie and her siblings. 

Marriage and children: 

On July 25, 1875 in Chicago, Nellie Rose married William Henry Crane at age 17.  They had two children in Chicago, William D. and Amarylis Ann, and then moved to Kansas to farm.  

A few short years later the family moved back to Chicago, where they had four more children.

Widowhood and older age: 

In 1906, when Nellie Rose was 48 years old, her husband died.

Our next glimpse of Nellie Rose is at age 53, in the 1910 census.  She is head of a busy household on Jefferson Avenue in Chicago.  Living with Nellie are two of her children, Mabel (24) - a stenographer for a wholesale hardware establishment, and Ralph (18) - a clerk at a steel mill - as well as her widowed, elderly mother Honora Graham.  Also living in the house are two lodgers - young women working as milliners in a hat shop.   

This census indicates that Nellie had had 7 children, with 6 currently living.  

Nellie Rose lived in many Chicago locations in her lifetime.

Her son Ralph indicated Nellie's address to be 1122 Marquette Road in Sept 1919, on his World War 1 transport record.  

In 1920 Nellie is still living with Mabel and Ralph, now at 66th Street in Chicago.  Mabel is now a bookkeeper at a bank, and Ralph is a solicitor for an advertising firm. 

In 1930 Nellie is living with Mabel in a different location, in a rented home at 1607 East 69th Street. Mabel is a filing clerk at a bank.  Nellie's son Roland and his family are living nearby at 625B West 73rd Street. , so it is easy to imagine that Nellie saw her grandchildren frequently.  

Nellie Rose passed away two years later at age 74.   

See also:  Children of Nellie Hogan and William H. Crane 

Sources: 

1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930 census

Illinois marriage index, death index 

US Army Transport Passenger Lists (for her son)

Cynthia Poth Nanto family tree on Ancestry dot com