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  • Genealogical Goals

    Identify all 16 gggrandparents. (Only two left -- but they're going to be interesting, as paternal grandmother's father is not shown on her birth registration!)

    Prove the exact link between my ancestor Lott J TIERNEY (b. 1833, Ireland, d. 1915 Dayton, Ohio) and John J TIERNEY (b. 1863 Dysart, Clare, Ireland, d. 1914 Lawrence, Essex, Massachusetts).

    Locate the TIERNEY townland in Dysart, Clare, Ireland

    Prove my lineage to pre-1861 Ohio to the standards of the Ohio Genealogical Society.

    Locate the Tipperary townland where the ARMSTRONG - CULLEN - KELLY - LEAHEY group originated.

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Tombstone Tuesday: Thomas Francis KELLY (1873-1942)

Posted by Ambar on February 24th, 2009

Kelly, Thomas grave marker, St Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Union City, Randolph, Indiana, USA; photograph by Suzanne Stamper-Youmans, 23 Apr 2008. Digital copy privately held by Jean Marie Diaz, [ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Linden, California. 2009.

Thomas Francis KELLY, brother to my great-grandmother, apparently never married. At various times he is listed as a farm laborer or as a worker at Union City Body (I believe those were automobile bodies being manufactured). He and his brother Edward are standing together in this shot, but I don’t know who is who. (Robert Emmett, the youngest brother, is on the left.)

Note this shot gives a shining example of why one should not always trust the dates engraved on tombstones. His birthdate is given as 1874 on the stone, but both his obituary in the local paper, and (more significantly, I think) the WW1 draft card he filled out in his own hand, give his birthdate as 21 Dec 1873. (Reminds me of my mother, remarking on a family obituary which gave Bertha’s name as “Beth”: “It’s a real shame to lose your name.”)

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One Response to “Tombstone Tuesday: Thomas Francis KELLY (1873-1942)”

  1. Daphne Garrison Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 14:06

    I have awarded you the Kreativ Blogger award! http://genealogyonabudget.blogspot.com/2009/02/kreativ-blogger-award.html

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