[8] Donald died at sea aged 34 when his sailing ship sank, a common fate for men in the region which was dependent on fishing.

[10] According to one genealogical account, displaced families in Mary's village lived in "human wretchedness" while nearby farmable land was used for sheep.

[1][6][7] She was one of tens of thousands of young Scots who left for the U.S. or Canada during this period, Scotland having suffered badly the consequences of the Clearances and World War I.

[4][12] Arriving in the U.S. with $50 (equivalent to $945 in 2024), MacLeod lived with her older sister Christina Matheson in Astoria, Queens and worked as a domestic servant for at least four years.

[1][6][7] One of these jobs appears to have been as a nanny for a well-to-do family in a New York suburb, but the position was eliminated due to economic difficulties caused by the Great Depression.

[8] As a 2016 account in Scottish newspaper The National put it, she "started life in America as a dirt-poor servant escaping the even worse poverty of her native land.

[1][6][7] However, there is no evidence that she violated any immigration laws prior to her naturalization, as she frequently traveled internationally and was afterwards able to re-enter the U.S.[14] MacLeod returned to her home area in Scotland often during the course of her life and spoke Gaelic when she did.

They married at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church on the Upper East Side on January 11, 1936,[16] with George Arthur Buttrick officiating.

and was involved in school activities and charities,[4] including for the betterment of those with cerebral palsy and efforts to improve the lives of intellectually disabled adults.

[31] Mary Anne died one year later on August 7, 2000, at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, at age 88.

[2] Services were held at Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan,[26] and she was buried alongside her husband and son (Fred Jr.) at Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens.

[32] The death notice in her Scottish hometown newspaper, the Stornoway Gazette, read: "Peacefully in New York on 7th August, Mary Ann [sic] Trump, aged 88 years.