Students honor their teacher
with a stained glass window

Miss Margaret Markee was a teacher and principal of a Lancaster School district “secondary school” before managing the primary department of Saint James Parochial School for the last five years of her life. When she died in at the age of 44 in 1875, children sang the hymn Jerusalem, the Golden at her funeral service. In 1884 her former pupils from the parish school presented in her memory a window showing Christ surrounded by children. She is buried in the churchyard. Click image to enlarge.