The below was transcribed by Dennis Nicklaus in 2003. I (Dennis Nicklaus) don't know who the original author was, and neither did the person who sent me it. I received my copy from Robert Sheehy, a descendent of Alicia Lawler Kealy. I believe it may have been typed originally about 1944 because the list of descendents in the last section cuts off about 1944. The 1944 date suggests it might have been written by Alicia or one of her children because Alicia, the last surviving child of John Lawler, died in 1944. But there are several 20th century Crawford Co., Iowa details which seem unlikely to be known by the Alicia's family, because Alicia had already moved to Nebraska. If you know the original author or date, please tell me. How the Lawlers Came to America During the year of 1845, when times got so hard, that a cousin of the Lawlers, a young man of 23 years old, couldn't get work with out wages, only what mush and milk he could eat. There were a lot of irish going to Canada and Australia, but they didn't want to live under the British Crown. They figured there would not be anything but oppression. Thus they decided to try their fortunes elsewhere. When John Lawler Sr. was settling up with the land lord, he struck him with his elbow across the mouth. John Sr. threw his arms around him to hold him, accidently, of course!, and held him under the open fireplace, until all the hair was burned off his head. He was arrested, and fined 10 shillings --- $2.30 in our money. He said that he had one satisfaction leaving Ireland. In this party were John Lawler Sr., & wife, Mary, with their children, John Jr., aged 6 and Bridget, aged 4. Their other 3 children, Margaret, Fenton, and Daniel were left with Mrs. John Lawler Sr.'s brother, Daniel, and they sent for them some years later. After a stormy voyage of 11 weeks, on an old sail boat by way of Queenstown and Liverpool, they finally landed at New Orleans. The ship being pulled in by 3 steam tug boats, up the Mississippi. During the voyage, they were becalmed 3 days off the coast of Cuba, and only 1 pint of water was allowed each day to each one. John Jr. grabbed a can of water, ran to the far end of the boat, and drank his fill, not caring whether he got punished or not. The first few months, John Lawler Sr. worked shelling corn with a little hand sheller, and also in a sugar refinery on the old Jackson battle ground of 1812. There was $100, and an outfit of clothes, if one would enlist in the Army, as the Mexican War was going on. John Jr. walked to town to enlist, but they told him that the war was over. After some months in New Orleans, they took the steamboat up the river to Lexington, Kentucky. Their chief diet was corn bread and salt pork. One day John Lawler Jr. opened a bzge for a southern gentleman, who tossed him a dime. He was riding a very fancy horse, and it was Henry Clay, of Kentucky. One night Bridget, daughter of Mary and John Sr., was left to take care of Patrick James, who was then a baby, (who was to become the inventor of the cornhusker), when the log cabin caught fire. Bridget ran for help to put out the fire forgetting the baby. John Lawler Sr. ran through the blaze, getting his hands and face badly singed in doing so. The Cholera epidemic was raging at Paris, Kentucky, a few miles away. The people were dying at the rate of 8 a day. The 2 Lawlers, John Sr. and his brother Dan, were working at a stone quarry, when a man drove by with the casket with the dead body of his wife in a dump cart. Then something went wrong, and the casket was dumped into the middle of the road. The 2 Lawlers helped him load it, although badly scared. II It was in slave days, when the Lawlers lived in New Orleans and Kentucky. The first negro slave they saw was on the coast of Cuba, chained to a post with a lock hooked in his lower jaw. One day John Lawler Jr. went out to pick beans in a corn field, when he met a big nigger, who set his dog on him. John Jr. ran almost all the way home. That day, and for days after, there were men on horses searching all the corn fields, in that part of the country. This nigger was a runaway slave making his way to Canada, but they never got him. Another negro slave stole a petticoat off the clothes line from Mrs. John Lawler Sr., for some of the members of his family, but his master made him bring it back. He came back at night with it, and hung it up between 50 to 75 feet in a tree. It was up there 3 days before they could get someone to get it down! A white man, a neighbor, said that he could climb as high as any nigger, and went up after it. One day John Lawler Jr. went over to a neighbor's corn field, where there were about a half dozen negro boys hoeing corn -- all slaves. They were fooling around, not working, when Captain Stuart, their master, rode in among them on a horse, using a big whip in great style. John Jr. said that they boys all ran in different directions, and he said that he ran too. One of their neighbors, that was a doctor by trade, had linen table cloths, silver ware of all kinds, and the best of clothes. It was claimed their chief diet was brown bread and milk, and not too much of that. That was the way some of the Kentucky gentle lived. The wages were low on account of the slave trade, and for the whites that had to work, it was pretty hard going for them. They decided on moving to a free state, which was Illinois. They again set forth by boat for a new home. When the boat docked at Cairo, Ill., it was raining, and it looked dark and gloomy outside. When on the boat, John Jr., then 10 years old, was to take care of the baby, Patrick James. He was up on the deck of the boat, and a fellow gave John a dime if he would fight a negro boy, of about his age. He set the baby down, and went to work. They were about even, and both were getting badly battered, when John Sr. came on the job, and picked up the baby, and stopped the fight. The fellow followed John Jr. up, and gave him the dime. The negro was to get a couple of pennies. Life in Clinton County When John Lawler Sr. was taking out his citizenship, he was asked if he would renounce the British Crown and Queen Victoria. His answer was "With all my heart and soul." John Lawler Sr. and wife, Mary decided to go farther, so came to Clinton, Ia., making their way by ox team out to Center Grove, now known as Villa Nova. The part of the county the Lawlers settled in was nearly all timber, and it was a big job to cut the trees down, and grub out the stumps, to plant corn, and sew some grain. III Where the Lawlers went to school there were 70 pupils, one teacher and a long distance to walk. Their good time was a country dance now and then, and an old fashioned spelling school. The first money John Lawler Jr. made was $5 for hauling logs to John Brogan, who ran a boarding house, along where they were building a railroad. John Lawler Jr. carried the $5 bill in his hand all the way home, for fear of losing it. When the Lawlers landed in Clinton, eggs were 5 cents a doz., butter 5-8 cents a lb., and whiskey 30 cents a gallon. Almost every grocery store had it for sale. While living in Clinton County, John Jr. was bitten by a rattle snake. The only thing they could do for him, was to cut the piece out where the snakebite was, and poured the whiskey to him. John lived better than 60 years after. John went to break one of the oxen to ride, got thrown, and broke his arm. The Dr. set it, but used card boards, which warped, and made it crooked. John Sr., broke it over again, set it himself, using wooden splints, which didn't warp. One of their winter food supplies was a barrel of sorghum. They used to get Richard Benton to grind, as he owned the only mill in that part of the country. When Michael, son of John and Mary Lawler, was born, John Sr. went on foot 9 miles for the Dr. The Dr. got on a horse and came, and John Sr. had the 9 miles to walk back. Mrs. Richard Benton was the nurse, because as a young woman she had worked for a doctor. The grain was sowed with a hand seeder, or broadcasted by hand. It was harvested with a cradle, or a hand binder, on which 2 men rode and bound the grain, and one man drove. Their threshing was done with an 8 horse power thresher. Their hogs were all slaughtered at home, hauled by ox team to Clinton, and ferried across the river to be put on the railroad. During this time John Lawlers had left 3 children in Ireland with Mrs. Lawler's brother, Daniel. They though they were too young to stand the voyage. Margaret, Fenton, and Dan. John's brother, Daniel, left 2 of his children in Ireland for the same reason. They came some years later direct to Clinton county. This party crossed the water together were Fenton and Daniel aged 7, Margaret aged 9, Mary and John Lawler (children of Dan Lawler) and Thomas Dunn, who later became the husband of Margaret Lawler. When this party landed at New York, they were going up the street, and a parrot in a cage screamed out, "look at the Greenhorns." Mrs. John Lawler passed on in 1861 [Note: It's either 1860 overstruck to be 1861 or 1861 overstruckt to 1860, I can't tell. -- DJN], after an illness of only a week, the first year of the Civil War. Fenton Dowling was plowing corn with a one horse plow one day, when Dave Buckley, a neighbor, drove by. He said that he was going to the war. Fenton tied his horse to the fence, went with him, and was gone for 4 years. His father, John Dowling and John Lawler Jr. walked 20 miles to say good bye to him, when he was going. The wages paid the soldiers was $ 13 a month. Fenton came home with $800 in a money belt, which he wore around his waist. Dave Buckley came home broke. John Stuart was the first one in the neighborhood to have a buggy. He used to get the priest from DeWitt to come out to Villa Nova to say Mass now and then. The young men of that time all wore mustaches and beards. John Lawler shaved when he went to a party, and one of the neighbors didn't know him for a while. IV A neighbor's son, John Kealy Jr. was out hunting with an old musket. He went to poke a rabbit out of a hole, when the gun went off, and filled his shoulder with shot. They took him to the Dr. and he picked out what shot he could get, and let the rest stay. John Kealy later became the husband of Alicia Lawler, youngest daughter of John Sr. and Mary Lawler. One day John Lawler Jr. was in Clinton, when someone told him they had 6 niggers hidden in one of the houses up the street. Those were the days of the underground railroad. That night they were to take the niggers farther on to Canada. Another time John Jr. was in Clinton before the bridge was built across the Mississippi, and they used to cross the ice. John Jr. just got back when the ice started breaking. A boy on a horse nearly got caught. His name was Ed Downey, a neighbor of the Lawlers, in Clinton and Crawford counties. The Lawlers' cows used to get through the rail fences around the cemetery, and John Jr. had to hunt them out, sometimes after dark. John Sr. and John Jr. dug a few wells in Clinton about 40 ft. deep. They lined the wall about a ft. thick with lime rock, which they shaped themselves, with a stone hammer and chisel. John Lawler Jr. made a trip by steamboat to St. Louis, and they had on a cargo of wheat. While sitting up on a sack of wheat, he felt some one give his coat tail a pull. It was 2 stowaways, with a little place built up with sacks. They passed out 50 cents to him to buy some eats, and when he came back, they passed out a big glass of whiskey. They were next to a whiskey barrell, and were using a gimlet. While going by Keokuk, the boat was hung up on the rapids. The men that wanted work were allowed 50 cents an hour for 3 hours. It was for carrying 100 lb. sacks of wheat down the gang plank, to lighten the boat, to get over the rapids. While in St. Louis, John Jr. worked a few weeks in a tobacco factory or ware house. The fumes burned his eyes, so that he had to wear glasses from then on. For a while he worked on a street car drawn by horses. They had 12 miles of tracks, and a barn at each end. One team would be hitched to the car, and be trotted 12 miles. Then they would change teams, and the next team would take cars the 12 miles back. During 1858 the Pope was having trouble with the Italian Govt. 2 boys ran away to fight for him. They got as far as Alvira on their way, when a man picked them up. He kept them all night, but couldn't get them to tell who they were. Their names were Peter Lawler and Dave Buckley. When their folks caught up to them, Peter was caught first, but Dave hid in the brush. The dog followed him and so then they took them home. They didn't get to go fight for the Pope. John Jr. and his brother, Daniel, threshed for 2 seasons in Clinton, with an old hand feeder, that had a 16 foot straw carrier. While threshing at old man White's place, they had a horse on a rope, and a pole to drag the straw away. Charley White, then a lad of 6, got buried in the straw. His father missed him, and they stopped everything to dig him out. Charley was sort of breath, when the found him. He made it, and was a neighbor of the Lawlers in Crawford county later years. V While Fenton Dowling was in the Civil War, the first fight he was in was some part of Missouri. The regiment started up some road, and fire burst from the brush on both sides of them. Fenton ran into a yard, met a rebel, and they both got behind 2 trees. After firing at each other a few times, the rebel asked Fenton, if they hadn't had enough of this nonsense now. He said that you don't want to get shot, and neither do I, so on our honor lets each go our way, which they both did. 20 men were lost in this engagement. One day the Lawlers saw a dark cloud in the distance. It was a cyclone that destroyed Camanche, and killed 10 people. Another day they went out foragin, 15 men to a mill. they got a few hams and some flour, which they tied to their horse's necks. When they were ready to go, they saw a troup of rebels coming towards them. They waited to give them a volley, and saw a good many empty saddles. When the rebels returned fire, Fentons horse went down, shot through the leg. He jumped off, and hid in some brush. The rebels seeing the horse, searched for him, and was close to finding him. He started to walk back to camp, and met a darky riding a mule. He pointed his musket at him, told him to get off, and he got on. The told the nigger to come to the camp, to get his mule but he never came. He said that the nigger turned white, when he pointed the gun at him, although he was no more scared than himself. John Lawler Jr. and Patrick were pall bearers at the funeral of Mrs. John Dunn, at which time a bad storm came up. All the funeral procession turned back except three teams: the mourners, pall bearers, and hearse driver. It was raining so hard they had to dip the water out of the grave, before the casked could be let down. LIFE IN CRAWFORD COUNTY After some years in Clinton Co., the Lawlers decided to move further west. The railroad wanted $85 for a car to come out to West Side. They decided to drive with the covered wagons. They made 40 miles a day across the prairie on the way out. John Lawler Jr., Patrick Lawler, Fenton Lawler, Dick Langton, Thomas Dunn, were in the party coming out. John Lawler Jr. had a dog by the name of Rover, a Newfoundland, and Tom Dunn had an old dog, called Pup. It seemed all the dogs on the way had to pick on Pup. Tom would be heard calling Rover to come save Pup. John Lawler started for the West with $1500, a team of horses, 3 colts, a wooden frame drag, a wooden beam breaking plow, buying 240 A. at $6.50 an A., of Crawford Co. land. John Lawler Sr. located on the place now occupied by his grandson, Joe Lawler, son of Fenton Lawler. His house still stands, but is used as a granary on the farm of Joe Lawler. It was built about the year 1878. One of the first school houses ever built in Jackson Twp., was built by Patrick James Lawler, and taught by his sister, Mary, who later became Mrs. Cuddy. The bldg. still stands, but is used as a chicken house by Leo Dunn, a son of Margaret Lawler and Tom Dunn. It was built about 1880. For a few months a school was taught by Mary Lawler --- later Mrs. Cuddy, in an upstairs room of the house now occupied by Bill and Tom Lawler. VI. During the year of 1886, Patrick James and John Lawler Sr. started to build the first cornhusker. The rollers that are used in the present day husker are a copy of his models. Frank Barry, who is still living in Chicago, helped him as a boy, to build the first husker, in a blacksmith shop and livery barn. It was 1 block west of the Catholic Church in Vail. The bldg. was destroyed by fire about the year 1907. It is a vacant lot now. Patrick James never got credit for it, as the McCormick and Deering Harvester Co. waited until the patent ran out before manufacturing any. It was the yr. 1907. Patrick James was one of the oldest office holders in the state of his time. He held the office of assessor for 48 years, and never was defeated at the polls. He retired the yr. of 1922. When the Lawlers first came west, the Catholic cemetery at Vail was to be located about 20 rods north of the church. One or 2 graves were in it, and later it was moved to its present location. The Arcadia cemetery was located 1 mile west of Arcadia, on what is known as the Killeen place to its present location. The Lawlers, Tom Dunn, John Farrell, Mike Maher, Mike Kernan, Lock and Ed McCarthy, were among the ones that helped move the dead. Among the ones that were moved were the bodies of 6 children of Tom and Margaret Dunn. They had passed on 5 years before by diptheria, all within 2 wks. of each other. John and Patrick Lawler went to Arcadia, and brought out 3 coffins in 1 day. One the place now occupied by Ambrose Lawler, lived a man by the name of Savage. It was said that he used to keep a light at all times. The people found their way across the trackless prairie by watching for his light. Savage was out breaking prairie one day, and had his gun with him. He happened to look back, and there were 6 deer following the furrow behind him. He was so surprised, he forgot to shoot. Later this man Savage became the Gov. of Nebr. He and John Lawler Jr. used to have some arguments. He being a Republican and John Lawler a Democrat. During the year, July 1, 1891, a hail storm swept from near the Minn. line to the Missouri line 2 miles wide, taking everything with it, smashing windows, shingles on the buildings, killed little pigs, and chickens. John Lawler had 90 acres of small grain he never pulled a harvester into. Paddy and Betty Monahan, with their 3 sons, were John Lawler Jr.s nearest neighbors. John Lawler had a little trouble, and told Jack Monahan, 1 of the sons, that he would fight him, if he wanted to. A few days later, Fenton Lawler, who was in West Side, saw a prairie fire start. He jumped on a horse, and came out to help John Jr. save his house, which was just built. Jack Monahan forgot his trouble with John, and came over to help fight the fire. The fire went nearly as far as Odebolt. A neighbor of the Lawlers was Dr. Carter. He was an old Civil War Vet., having fought for the South in the Civil War. He was heard to have made the remark, that when he died and went to Heaven, would there be any Blue bellied Yankees there? He lost his hearing, and went to farming the last few years of his life. He used to visit John Sr. during his last illness. His son worked for John Jr. during 1890-91. He was one of the first graduates of the West Side High School. He is now a widely known Dr. in Chicago, having invented the Pullmotor, that has saves lots of lives. He was a classmate of Ella Lawler, daughter of Dan Lawler. When the Carters lived in Crawford Co., the house and barn were all one. When the Lawlers first came to Crawford, the nearest church was Mount Carmel. They used to drive with a wagon, and were lucky to have a spring seat. Wm. Kelly and wife, which he used to call, "The one Mary Farrell," was one of the VII first to have a carriage in Crawford County. Mrs. Kelly was heard to have made the remark that it was nice to ride in, as neither the rain or the sun could strike one. The winter of 78 was so severe, and the spring so late and cold, that they found ice under a strawpile on the 4th of July. A hayrack stood for 3 months with the snow drifted around it, before it could be moved. The farmers took a carload of coal by force, that was side-tracked at West Side for some other place. Each one got 800 lbs. Tom Dunn went to town to get coal that same day, but was too late to get in on any of the coal. One morning 1 of the pupils, John Peters, came down in a hurry to John Lawler's Jr., and said that the stove was smoking. They had a barrel of water in the wagon for some purpose, and just got there in time to save the bldg. Mary Lawler --- Mrs. Cuddy, was the teacher, and Jim Cuddy was one of the ones to help put the fire out. Tom Dunn went to Vail with the wheat to the mill. A big flood took his 2 dogs down the river, and he came home feeling very bad. The dogs were back in 2 days. While there his harness got busted up, and the harness maker gave him time on the money, which was $2.00. 19 years later he went to pay the bill, but the man was dead. He gave the money to his son. The last team funeral in Jackson was John Lawler Jr., with a 3 seated buggy, from the livery barn in Vail, to take the pall bearers. They were Jim Pendergast, Jack Malloy, Jim Fitzsonry, Ed Downey, Dan Murphy and Bernard McLaughlin, who have all passed on. It was July 11, 1914. The first car funeral was Wm. Kelly, which was Dec. 1915, and the casket was carried in a big Buick car. The road leading north of West Side was known as the Lawler road, as the five brothers lived on it. One of the first wooden wheel threshing steam outfits was run by Will Kealy and Lew Kerigan, in company with a neighbor, Tom Brotherson, for 2 seasons. Kealy and Kerigan were Bridget Lawler's sons, and John Sr.'s grandsons. Then they got a modern outfit, a self feeder, a swinging stacker, and a 12 horse power steam engine with return flues, with the smoke stack on the back part. During the year 1902, they had 75 jobs. In the winter time, water was hauled with sled and barrels. On account of a lot of rain and snow, they threshed from September to March. Charley Boward, a neighbor of the Lawlers, was the first to have a blower. He was a brother-in-law to former Gov. Shaw of Iowa. Chris Rippel was the first to thresh with a steam outfit for John Lawler Jr. Geo. Centon was the last with a horse power. Mrs. Alicia Kealy is an honored war mother. Her son, Frank, was in the Spanish American War, and another son, Joseph, was in the World War. Another great honor of hers is that she has a grandson, a missionary priest in China. Fr. Hohlfeld is the name of the priest in China. She also has another grandson, Fr. Kealy, a priest in Nebraska, and a granddaughter, Maurine Walsh, a nun in St. Catherines Convent, St. Catherines Kentucky. Her name is Sister John Frances. The first employment that Mike Lawler and Mike Kernan had after coming to Crawford Co. was to help build the C.N.W. railroad from Carroll to Sac City. Formerly a line of sic horse stage coaches ran between those two towns. John Lawler Jr. made the remard in 1905, that it is like living in town now. After the mail route was established with their mail box at the school house on the home [part of a line is cut off here]. These were things he never expected to have. VIII The first two incubators in the neighborhood was had by Bernard McLaughlins, and Ed McCarthys, about the year 1905, and run by a kerosene lamp. McLaughlins had a cream separator, and it was run by tread power. Pat Sheridan of Vail had the first hatchery, and it was run by hard coal. That was in 1922. The eggs were changed by turning a crank. Before that they had to turn them by hand. Lew Kerigan went to a fourth of July celebration at Vail, with one of the first bicycles costing $75.00. LAWLER FAMILY HISTORY John Lawler and Mary Lawler were united in marriage in Timahoe, Queens county, Ireland about 1838. To this couple were born four girls, and five boys. Five of these children were born in Ireland, and four in the United States. The five that were born in Ireland are as follows: John Jr., 1840, Bridget, 18[cut off], Margaret, 1844, and Daniel and Fenton (twins), 1845. The four that were born in the United States are as follows: Patrick in Kentucky, 1850, Michael, in Clinton County, Iowa, 1852, Mary in Clinton County, 1854, and Alicia, in Clinton County, 1858. John Lawler, his wife, the two oldest children, and his brother, Dan, and family, came to the United States in 1846, settling in New Orleans, Louisiana. They moved later to Kentucky, about 1849. They moved to Clinton County, Iowa, about 1850. In about 1862, Thomas Dunn brought Margaret, Daniel, and Fenton to join the rest of the family. In 1860, the mother of the family was called in death. In 1872, the family moved to Crawford County. John Lawler married Bridget McCarthy in 1884. Four children were born to this union, namely: William, Joseph (1888-98), Ambrose, and Thomas. Two member of this family were married as follows: Thomas to Mary Mulhall, (1904-1940) who had two children, Mary, and Charles Louis, both deceased, and Ambrose to Andella Rowan, who have two children, John Patrick, and Kathleen Ann. Bridget Lawler was married in Clinton County to John Kealy (who had four children by a former marriage --- Margaret, Anna, John, and Daniel.) To this union were born two children, William (1868-1913) and Minnie, who married John O'Connell. They had no children. In 1871 John Kealy Sr. was killed, and in 1874, Bridget Lawler Kealy was married to James Kerigan. To this union was born one child, Louis, who married Julia Kernan. They had three children, Joh, (deceased), Mary, (deceased) and Anna. Julia Kerigan died in 1910, and Louis married Mrs. Catherine Mulhall, 1915, who had one child, Mary, by a former marriage. To this union were born two children, [cut off] and Margaret. IX Margaret Lawler, (1844-1931), married Thomas Dunn in 1869, and they had nine children. Thomas, Daniel, Joseph, Mary, Charles, John, Clare, Leo, and Josephine. The six oldest died of diphtheria, in the short space of eleven days. Between 1883 and 1890, the other three children were born, of which one, Leo, was married to Mary McLaughlin. They have two children, Margaret and Joseph. Fenton Lawler, (1846-1919), married Katherine Farrell, (1855-1925), in about 1874. This union was blessed with sic children. George, John Francis, (1880-1904), William (1882-1923), Gertrude, (1884-1926), Joseph, and Lillian (1889-1917). All of this family married except John Francis. George married Ethel Downey, and they have four children namely: Helen (Mrs. Raphael Walsh, who has one boy,) Dennis Francis, Francis, Robert, and Gerald. Joseph married Charlotte Hammil, and they have four children, namely: William, Donald, Mary Frances, and Fenton. Lillian married Leo Downey, and they had one boy, Joseph. Lillian died in 1917. Gertrude married Mart O'Connell, and William married Katherine Sullivan. The last two couples had no children. Daniel Lawler, (1845-1920), was united in marriage to Mary Malloy, (1860-1930), and they had eight children, namely: John (1876-88), Ella, Margaret, Alicia, James, Elizabeth, Loretta, and Daniel. Three of this family married, namely: Alicia to Victor Schrobert, (deceased), Loretta to Thomas O'Leary, and James to Margaret Handley. The last named couple had three children, Joh, Blanche (deceased) and Beatrice. Patrick Lawler, (1850-1932), never married, and always made his home with his brother, John, and his sister, Margaret. Michael Lawler, (1852-1901), married Margaret Gilligan, (1850-1940). They had no children. Michael was killed in a tragic railroad accident. Mary Lawler, (1854-86) married James Cuddy. They had two children, Cornelia and Joseph. Cornelia married George Foley, and they have four children, namely: Edna, Francis, Genevieve, and Melvin. Joseph Cuddy married Gertrude White. They have no children. Alicia was married to John Kealy, (1862-1907). To this union were born eight children. Frank Raymond (1888-1905), Daniel (1881-1932), Agnes, Margaret, Gertrude ( - 1934), Amy, Joseph (1895-1934), and Hazel. All of this family married with the exception of Joseph. Frank married Addie Mitchell, and they have eleven children namely: Margaret, Thomas (Father Kealy), Florence, (Mrs. Ralph Miller, who has two children, Michael and Thomas), Dick, (who married Ruth Holland and has two children, Donna Marie and Barbara [handwritten in: four children, Donna, Barbara, John and Joseph]) Marie, (Mrs. Donovan Foote, who has 3 children, Donovan and Merrie Gwen and Terry, Josephine, Loretta, Eileen, Daniel, Patricia and Mary Helen. Margaret Kealy married Frank Goodwin, and there children are: John, (who married Dorothy Bierman and have 3 children), Lorene, (Mrs. ----) Lucille (Mrs. ----) Mary, (Mrs. ----) Margaret, (Mrs. ---- who has two children), James, Jeannette, Richard, and Francis. X Agnes married Oscar Hohlfeld, and they have five children, namely: Raymond, (Father Hohlfeld), Louis, (who married Lois Pringle, and they have two girls, Joan and Janet), Florence (Mrs. Robert Stanton, who has one boy, Rawley), Gertrude, (Mrs. Ralph Palese) and Joseph. Gertrude Kealy married Frank Walsh, and four children were born to this union. Their names are: Maurine (Sister John Francis, of Dominican Order in Kentucky), Mary Agnes, Robert, (who married Barbara Bierman) and William (who married ----). Aimee Kealy married Philip Vreeland. To this union four children were born. Ruth, Phyllis, Rita, and Phillip. Mr. Vreeland died in 1933. Hazel Kealy married John Roth and they have five children, Donald, Jean, Ann, William, and Grace.