James Sheehan Obit

     This is the James Sheehan married to Mary M. Doyle.  I have written about this family previously.  The story is that they emigrated from Ireland with help from Bridget and Michael Hogan.
     The obituary appeared in the St. Paul Dispatch on March 9, 1922.

Sheehan--James, in St. Paul, March 8, 1922 in his seventy-first year.  Family residence 486 Rice. Survived by his loving wife, Mary, Patrick C., John J., James W., Joseph M., Alphonse N. and Mrs. Alphonse Arcand of White Bear and Mrs. Chamberlain of Kuna, Idaho.  Funeral from Kessler & McGuire's parlors, 115 West Tenth street.  Friday, 9:30 A.M.  Services at Cathedral at 10 A. M. Interment, Calvary.  Chicago, New York, St. Louis and Kuna, Idaho papers please copy. 

Now perhaps I will be able to find his wife's death date if she is buried in the same plot.

Why do people do what they do?

     Thanks to the Mormons and FamilySearch, I found the date of the marriage of Eliza Frances Burns.  She was the daughter of the immigrant generation--Timothy Burns and Eliza Barry.
     On her marriage license, it says that she was from Ramsey County.  She was married in Ramsey County and not at St. Thomas.
     On the record it also says she was married by an Episcopal priest.  Now that is surprising! Perhaps that is why the marriage was performed in St. Paul.  Did some relatives attend?  I couldn't find an account of it in the newspapers.
     After her marriage she lived in Chicago. She died there in 1904.

DNA Update--Shea genes

     Last summer I mentioned DNA results linking our family to Patricia Lindquist.  After some research I found out that she is deceased.
     A while later, I received an email from Patricia's sister, Mary Hayden Carlson with the following information:

I have been working on the family history for years, where you write or call relatives to get their information...I am related to Monsignor Ambrose Hayden.  My father's sister Marie Hayden McGinnis, daughter of Michael T. Hayden and Mary Ann Voegele, told me Hanorah's mother was Mary O'Shea Reardon.  She said some believe that her name was Mary Sullivan Reardon--then said to me "Do not believe it!"

 She further supplied info from her Aunt Marie:

     My grandmother Hannorah O'Reardon (Riordan) Hayden, had 6 cousins from County Cork--2 girls and 4 boys by the name of Shea (Shay).  They came to Minnesota and lived around Le Sueur, St. Thomas, and Le Center.  Apparently they lived in the same area as the O'Reardons in Millstreet and it is said they were all so close and more like brothers and sisters than cousins to the O'Reardons. 
      One of the girls, Mary married Moses Murphy.  They were grandparents of Sister Mary Kilduff and Hazel Green who went to St. Joseph's Academy when I did.  Hazel Green's (married name Trumper) mother, Lizzie Murphy was Sister Mary Kilduff's aunt.
    Timonty Reardon (Riordan) married Mary Shay (born 1811, died 18 May 1871, Le Sueur MN.  She is buried in the Mike Feeney lot in Calvary Cemetery. They had at least eight children:1. Mary2. Johanna3. Hannorah4. Ellen5. Katherine6. John7. Jeremiah8. Denis

So, I was one of those that surmised Mary Riordan's maiden name may have been Sullivan.  It is great to get some info much closer to the source!!