Tiernan, Caroline B.

Born: 1823-03-04 Kentucky

Died: 1911-12-12 Kansas

Flourished: Champaign County, Illinois

Alternate name: Bruer, McCoy

Caroline B. Tiernan was the wife and later widow of Charles Tiernan. Born Caroline Bruer, she married Charles Tiernan in Champaign County, Illinois, in September 1840. Their union produced three children. Charles Tiernan died in 1846, and by 1850, Caroline and her children were living in the household of Asahel Bruer in Urbana, Illinois. In January 1853, Caroline married William M. McCoy, with whom she had three children.

Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, Champaign County, 6 September 1840, 4 January 1853, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL; U.S. Census Office, Seventh Census of the United States (1850), Urbana, Champaign County, IL, 96; Gravestone, Mount Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum, Urbana, IL.