Biographical Papers A-G

Biographical Papers Letter A

Captain Charles Claus Allers

(card #1)

Charlevoix

Charles Claus Allers, married, 88-5-9 [1], died Oct. 31, 1936 [of] myocardial degeneration; [born] Germ,; [2] parents unknown.

Captain Charles Claus Allers

(card #2)

1848-1936

Moved to Beaver in 1903

Married Maria Victoria Curtis (born Canada), 1858 (from newspaper clipping on her 73rd birthday in 1931).

"Mrs. Allers was 1/2 Indian" (Maria) This must be 1/4 Indian from her appearance. Ethel confirms that this is true and her sister Lillian showed also Indian blood and was very dark. According to Maria, "There was a Curtis family. He was an Indian & his sister was Mrs. Aller's mother."

There is a death record for a month old baby, cause premature birth:

Died Aug. 22, '09, parents Herman Allers & Minnie H. Mielke B This must be Gus's sister.

Death records:

Charles Claus Allers, married, age 88-5-9, died Oct. 31 '36, in St. J. Twp [3] of myocardial degeneration. Born Germany; parents unknown, but [also] born Germany.

Herman Allers

Charlevoix

Herman Allers, 0-1-1, died Aug. 22 '09; [cause] premature birth. Parents Herman Allers & Minnie Mielke.

Lenore Allers Belfy

Born 1891 - married Edwin Belfy, 1893-1975

Children:

Edwin Belfy

Musette La Froniere [4]

Chester Belfy

M. M. Aldrich

A Mormon - his dock was at Troy.

He was Justice of the Peace in 1851.

He is listed in the 1850 census - see census card.

Captain Gilman Appleby

1810-1867 or '68

Married Julia [?], 1820 -

He was the 3 rd Lightkeeper at the Head:

"Capt. Appleby of Buffaloe, N.Y. took Mr. Patrick Looney's place as keeper of the light at the head where he was assisted by his nephew Frank Blakeslee."

- C. of Sea, p. 187

(He was followed by Tip Miller.)

1860 census:

Gilbert Apelby 50 lightkeeper born N.Y.

Julia Apelby 40 ----------------- born N.Y.

Antwin__ Conergan 30 laborer born Canada

From "The Great Lakes Reader" - Havighurst:

"In the 1830s, after years in the schooner trade, Capt. Gilman Appleby of Connaught [5] became master of the steamer North American, carrying travelers and immigrants from Buffalo to western Lake Erie. In the 1840s he took command of the Indiana, with a brass band on deck and an iron Indian astride her smokestack."

The Nov. 11 storm of 1835 - "The steamship North America was driven on the beach at Erie. She was commanded by Capt. G. Appleby...The North America prior to going ashore had let go her anchors & attempted to ride out the gale at Erie, but the wind increasing in its fury soon parted her cables, while the passengers & crew gave themselves up for lost, but it was suggested to scuttle the boat to prevent her jumping over the pier & thus the boat was saved. P. 307 [6]

An inquiry from Virginia H. Jordon, MD, Grand Blanc, Mich., 1981:

"Our Gilbert would have been 53 in 1851. He lived to be 94."

May ? 1861 - Gilman Appleby bought from David Lobdell Lot 1 Sec 20-37-10.

May 23, 1863 - Gilman Appleby bought from U.S. Lot 5 Sec 21-37-10.

- these [2 lots] are adjoining & are between Cable's Bay & Iron Ore Bay

Sept. ? 1867 - Gilman Appleby sold to John Demming Lot 1 Sec 20-37-10.

Sept. ? 1867 - Julia Appleby sold to John Demming Lot 5 Sec 21-37-10.

Sept. ? 1868 - Julia Appleby sold to Frank Blakeslee Lot 1 Sec 20

Nov. 1868 - Julia Appleby sold to Frank Blakeslee Lot 5 Sec 21

- this looks as if the deal with Demming didn't go through & the widowed Julia then sold the property to the nephew

William Atkinson

Wife Milantha (Martlia?)

1860 census:

William Atkinson, 24, laborer, born N.Y.

Milantha Atkinson, 22, born N.Y.

William */22 [7] born N.Y.

1 Likely 88 years, 5 months, 9 days.

2 Likely an abbreviation for Germany.

3 St. James Township, Charlevoix County; one of the three counties that made up Beaver Island in the nineteenth century. The others were Peaine and Gallilee (Gallilee has ceased to be used as a geographic designation). St. James Township was named for James Jessie Strang, the Mormon leader.

4 The last name is spelled LaFreniere elsewhere in the manuscript.

5 For Connaught, Ireland, see entry below for Mike Burke; this would seem to conflict with the birthplace Captain Gilman gave in the 1860 census.

6 The second paragraph is probably an additional quote from the " Great Lakes Reader," but the author does not make this clear.

7 Indecipherable numeral, possibly 5. Babies under the age of one year were often designated by the number of months out of twelve (i. e., "5/12" for five months), but the "22" is unclear here.

Biographical Papers Letter B

Joseph Bailly

(Joseph Aubert de Gaspe Bailly de Messein)

Born 1774 at Quebec (prominent French family)

Went to Mackinac "at an early age"

First wife - daughter of an Indian chief - children. Separated by mutual consent - date not clear.

Second wife - Marie LeFevre - born 1873 - Father French merchant, mother Ottawa. She had married Ottawa medicine man delaVagne - bought her freedom from him. Daughter Agatha married Edward Biddle in 1819.

By 1800 his trading operations were on Grand, Muskegon, Kalamazoo, & St. Joseph rivers.

In this area he was associated with John Kinzie ( In____ Massacre 1812) [1] By 1805 extended to Kankakee River.

1810 - met second wife.

1812 - he was British Citizen until after the war.

1816 - law passed to trade with Indians, must be Am. citz.

1822 - moved to Calumet region, the only settlers in the region until 1833.

Made a translation of the entire New Testament in Potowatomi. Had library of 300 volumes - mostly French & English classics.

1835 - died

1866 - widow died at Calumet house.

Father Frederic Baraga

1797-1868

Born June 29, 1797

1830 - landed N.Y.

1831 - 1833 Arbre Croche [2]

1832 - first Mass on the Island.

May 11, 1832 - baptized 22 Indians on B.I. [3] He was on the Island in 1859, for he baptized three babies - Manus Bonner.

This is when he must have baptized the 3 children:

Frank McCauley, born '58

Ellen O'Donnell, born '58

Manus Bonner, born '59

1832 - published prayer book & catechism in Ottawa

1833 - 1835 - Grand River

1835 - 1843 - La Pointe

1843 - 1853 - L'Anse

1843-1855 - prepared dictionary (1852) of grammar of Chippewa à 1849

1853-1868 - Diocese of Marquette

Nov. 1, 1853 - consecrated Bishop in ___. [4]

Oct. 6, 1857 - "ordained Rev. Patrick Bernard Murray," p. 289 V

1857 - on Beaver; Father Murray stationed here (in letter dated Sept.).

1860 - Bishop Baraga established a permanent parish & assigned Rev. Patrick Murray

1863 - he wrote Leopoldine [5] Soc. that I've had 15 priests "we suffer from the want of priests."

1866 - Father Murray left for Alpena. Father Peter Gallagher came.

Jan 19, 1868 - died in Marquette (age 71).

"Holy Cross Parish" says Bishop Baraga's last visit was in the summer of 1864 but Lawrence notes that Hannah Big Owen "sewed a button on his shirt on his last visit in 1866." She had come from Ireland to the Island that same year.

John Black Bonner brought Bishop Baraga on his last trip to the Island in the " Rutland." Pat does not give a date.

The census of 1850 shows, on Mackinac Is.- "Ignas Mrak 40 R C Priest, Austria;" he is living alone. Was he a Leopoldine?

Also - in s[e]parate homes, alone-"Francis Perez (?) R. C. Munster, Austria.

(Leopoldine Foundation: established by the Emperor Francis I & named for his dead daughter, who had been Empress of Brazil.)

Prayer Book in both Ottawa & Chippewa [6]

"Sermon Book" - abstracts from Old and New Testaments

"Life of Jesus Christ"

"Eternal Truths"

also- in German- "The History, Character, Life & Manner of the North American Indian" (translated into French)

His letters to the Leopoldine Society were widely published in a number of languages & attracted many to the mission field. From his native Slovenia alone came more than 20.

During night attack on his cabin at Grand River he vowed to abstain from alcoholic drink for the rest of his life.

July 29, 1853 - Upper Pen. Made Vicariate Apostolic. Upper part of Lower Pen. added Baraga consecrated its Bishop in the Metropolitan Church of Cincinnati of feast of All Saints 1853 - he went immediately to Europe to raise money & came back with some priests and clerics & reach Sault St. Marie (the seat of the vicariage) late in August 1854.

Jan. 9, 1857 Vicariate raised to a diocese - Baraga 1st resident. "In his anxiety for the welfare of the diocese he ordained some who were not fully prepared" - from the "Apostle to the Chippewas," by Joseph Gregorick, p. 86. [7]

"He lamented "the past saddens me, the present torments me, the future haunts me,'" Ibid., p. 86 from Baraga's Journal

Oct. 27, 1866 - seat of diocese moved to Marquette; Baraga got there in May.

"Often he would say 'I am essentially an Indian Missionary.'" Ibid., p. 95.

Oct. 7, 1866 - Baltimore for Second Plenary Council. Oct. 10th had a stroke. "Spoke with difficulty & only able to walk a few paces in his room. Ibid., p. 97

Jan. 19, 1868 (Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus) he died - Buried in the Cathedral at Marquette. "At his death, a well established diocese, more than 20 priests & a number of churches." Ibid., p. 100

1832 - 1st visit May 11; baptized 22. Returned at the end of May - baptized 6 more. In the fall returned - baptized 15.

1833 - spring - baptized 3 (in May)

Finally gains consent of pagans to build church in woods away from village.

Summer - made last visit before leaving Arbre Croche; most Indians gone to Canada for gifts. Had not completed church because of hatred of pagans. Advised Christiana to move to Arbre Croche & in report of his missions-B.I.: 55 Christians.

Father Frederic Baraga

(card #2)

First parish 1824-1828, St. Martin

"The great zeal of Father B met with the disapproval of his colleagues." His "envious colleagues accused him to his Bishop who removed him from St. Martin and sent him to Medli____________" [8]

Medli________, 1828-1830

"One of his first cares was to procure a beautiful set of Stations of the Cross"

Leopoldine society formed 1829 - he told his Bishop of his desire to go to the Indians & applied to the society. On Nov. 4 1829 wrote his sister his application had been granted.

"The Parish priest had long entertained a great dislike to F. Baraga on account of the latter's great popularity." "Father Frederic" he said, "you have wanted to make yourself important by getting things for our churches. All are not yet paid for. Who is to pay for these when you are gone?" F. Baraga gave him his cloak to pay the debts. The priest hastily withdrew because the people were highly incensed. He did not take the cloak. The debts were paid by his sister & donations from pious people.

He was the first candidate of the Leo. Soc. for the Indian mission.

Baptized by Baraga in 1859: Nora McCauley (Dan's); Joe Burke; Manus Bonner.

In Baraga two parishes, St. Martin's & M______. He soon had trouble with his superiors. The official policy of the Bishop was tainted with Jansenism, [9] a heresy, which B. combated among the parishioners with success. His admiring biographer claims this success aroused intense jealousy among the other local priests. He was removed from St. Martin in disgrace. In M______, the pattern was repeated. Then see his experience at Grand River.

Where he worked alone far from his superiors, as in the Indian mission field, he was loved, almost adored, by those to whom he ministered & who were in no position to question his authority. Again, as Bishop, when he was the superior & he was geographically far from higher authority, his success was great; but whenever he was in the position having to work with co-equals he got into controversy & trouble.

Note the fact that Lyman Beecher's tract A Plea for the West [10] appeared in Cincinnati in 1835. See p. 22 in Am. to which they came . [11]

(decide where to put paragraphs pp5 22-24)

In his missionary works he placed emphasis on pictures & other church articles for the adornment of the churches founded (Sta. of the Cross for B.I.)

In Feb. 1835 Father Andrew Viszoszky replaced him at Grand River (he had run afoul of the Indian Agent & Baptist Missionary there). He spent the rest of the winter in a French mission near Detroit (white, not Indian).

La Pointe - arrived July 27th 1835. Left Detroit 8th of June. Went by steamer to Mack. Is. Went by trading vessel from the Soo [12] to La Pointe (18 days, probably a sail boat - he called it a "Trading Vessel").

Thomas Bedford

Married (June 8th, 1853) Joan (or Ruth Ann) Millar; she was in Charl [13] by 1884 (see notes from newspaper)

Sister of Tip Millar [14]

Children:

Julia

Edwin - who was assistant keeper at the Head with Tip Millar - there in 1874 ("B.I Girls")

Harrison - married Minnie Cooper who was lost on the "Champlain" [15]

Was it Edwin or a brother that I knew as owner of the "Fountain City House"? It was Harrison. Thomas is the one who shot Strang. [16]

In the land records:

Dec. 14, '64 by tax deed - Auditor General to Thomas Bedford, Lot 5 Sec 15 T37 R10.

June 2, '64 - this same lot Thomas Bedford to Joseph Evans. This is the Lake Genesareth, Cable's Bay area.

He and David Brown were partners in a fishing business. Bedford & Mrs. Brown were caught in adultery by Brown who horse whipped him. He encouraged Mrs. Bedford to refuse to wear the prescribed [Mormon] dress. - K. of St. J., p. 167 & 68

1865 - a land transfer from Ruth Ann Bedford to Luke Lambert in S3, T38-R10

1864 - Thomas Bedford sold Lot #5 Sec 15 T37 R10 to Joseph D. Evans (on Cable Bay).

Feb. ? 1865 - Ruth Ann Bedford to Luke Lambert, NW 4NE 4 Sec 3-38-10. This was classified as

swampland in 1854. This is not the first record I have of it since so I don't know how Mrs. Bedford got it. It is where Salty's house is on the Kgs. [17] Hwy.

1860 Census:

Thos. Bedford 45 farmer born England

Ruth A. Bedford 25 ---------- born Canada

Edwin 5 ---------- born Mich.

Julia 4 ------------ born Mich.

Harrison 2 ----------- born Mich.

Helen Dumphry

(Humphry?) 22 domestic born Ire [18]

John Boyle 23 laborer born Ire.

Nathan Spenser 37 laborer born N.Y.

Harrison [above, was] named for Ruth's brother Harrison Muller. Harrison married. His wife Minnie Cooper was lost in the "Champlain" disaster. He & she kept the Fountain City House.

Mrs. House:

Tom was wanted in Texas, probably for cattle rustling. One relative told Mrs. House that he did not want to know about this - "The more you dig into a manure pile, the more it stinks." Julia Ann was probably a second wife (note 20 yrs. difference in age & see card on Miller family). He is in the '60 census, but not in the '70 & '80, where Ruth Ann is the head of the house. In '80 she is still on B.I. & listed as a widow.

Family tradition says Tom deserted the family & went to Chicago, later returning to Michigan where he was with the Field family.

She had moved to Charlevoix by July, 1884 (see notes from Charlevoix newspaper).

Belfy

_____ Belfy

Married Alice Johnson

Children:

Merrill,1919-1962

Edna Mae (McCann)

Stones: [19]

Merrill W. Belfy Coast Guard Art. WW II

1919-1962

Wife and mother Alice,

1887-1962

Bennet [Family]

"A great effort was made to produce the impression that these Bennetts were substantial farmers, & respectable & liberal minded men. Nothing could be further from the truth. They were escaped felons from Ireland, who kept beyond the bounds of civilization to avoid the extradition laws. They had been some time in Mackinac, where they were noted for thieving propensities & the place becoming too warm for them, had taken up their abode at B.I. Thomas took an Indian wife, & lived with her until the expense of supporting the children was more than the value of her work, when he turned her off late in the fall, to provide for herself. On her way to her father's at the Traverse she was overtaken by a storm & perished with all her children. [20]

Ibid., p. 61, "there were upwards of 70 fishermen within 3/4 of a mile."

Thomas Bennett

Brother of Sam. This is the one who was killed. When they first came to B.I. they boarded with the Whitneys on Luneys Point. Then they built a house on Luney's Pt. They put in crops and fished. One Mormon map corroborates this.

Thomas was married. They moved to the gentile settlement at Cable's Bay. Shortly after that, Mrs. Thos. Bennett and their 3 children were lost on their way to Cross Village.

After Thomas was killed, the Mormons put the body in Bennett's own boat along with all the fish the brothers had and taking Sam with them, took them to the harbor where Dr. McCulloch dressed the wound in Sam's hand and performed an autopsy. The time was the spring of 1851. For an account of the killing see K. of St. James, p. 126, & Child of Sea, p. 93. [21]

See card on Sale of Land, for Strang's claim as to how they got their land.

Sam Bennett

Brother of Thomas who was killed. He was wounded in the hand at the same time. (See Thomas Bennett ['s card] for details.) He married a Miss Sullivan from Detroit.

Anthony Benyon(?)

In the 1860 census is a listing so illegible I couldn't make it out but it looked more like the above than anything else:

Anthony Benyon (?) 22 laborer born in France

Clamos (?) Benyon 21 (female) born in France

Chas. Benyon 17 born in France

Patrick Boyle 29 born in Ire.

Clarence B. Bissell

Clarence B. Bissell - [born] Connecticut; cook, laborer (second registration)

Cooked in lumber camps & on sailing vessels. Once stopped at B.I. in a storm; he liked the looks and sent for Rosie Stevens. Wrote and told the Bennetts about B.I. (Rosie was Geo. Stevens sister).

Married Rose Stevens - N.Y.

Children:

Vernon, Nov. 14, 1896 (birth record)

Charles Henry, Nov. 14, 1896

Vernon & Charles Henry - are they the same? Twins?

He liked the chance to fish and buy land cheap. "My Uncle Clarence and Aunt Rose ended up in Charlevoix in their '90s". (Albert Stevens)

In 1915 Mr. Bissell came to the apartment we were in at Paddy Mary Ellen's and tried to sell their place to Dad.

They were still at the Point when Viola & Johnny Quinlan were married, probably 1924 or '25.

William Black

1820 -

Wife, Anna, 1822 -

1860 census:

Wm. Black 40 farmer & fisherman born Scotland

Anna Black 38 born Scotland

Wm. Black 15 born Scotland

Jane Black 10 born Scotland

Henry Black 5 born Canada

Albert Black 3 born Canada

Bill Black 1 born Mich.

Capt. Boardman

(Lumber)

"In 1847 Capt. Boardman, a thrifty farmer living near Napierville, Ill., purchased of the U.S. Gov. a small tract of land at the mouth of the river (Traverse City) & furnished means to his son, Horace Boardman, to build a saw mill. The latter, with 2 or 3 men in his employ, arrived at the river in the early part of June of that year, & immediately commenced the construction of a dwelling. . .

On the 20th of June, a week or more after Mr. Boardman's arrival, the "Lady of the Lake," owned by him and sailed by Michael Gay, one of his employees, arrived at the mouth of the river with supplies."

The boat was old (therefore bought cheaply) & rotten & unsafe in a storm.

"It had been Mr. Boardman's intention to throw a dam across the Boardman River, at some point not far below the lake & build a saw mill on that stream . . . After a more thorough exploration however he modified his plan . . . He built on Mill Creek with the intention of building a larger & more permanent structure on the Boardman. The smaller mill would make planks & timbers for the larger. About the 1 st of October (1847) the mill was running. In 1851 Boardman sold the property to Hannah Lay [22] & Co. - the sawmill, the other cheap buildings & about 200A [23] of land (on which Traverse City grew) for $4,500.

(His. Grand Trav. Region, [24] p. 55-56)

Daniel J. Bonner

Stone - Daniel J. Bonner 1872-1944

This is the right age to be the Dan listed as son of Black Bonner.

John Bonner /Boner

Donegal

Born in Donegal May 3, 1817 (stone) - 1887. On the same stone is "Catherine, his beloved wife May 10, 1819 Dec 15, 1886. His wife's sister was married to Shamus Gallagher of the Black Hills. Shamus & Shawn were married to Gillespie sisters.

John Bonner - Boner- I have a note- he came thru Penn.?

Children:

Bridget Boyle

Dennis Bonner

"Big John"- first Pat told me he lived on the Sloptown Rd. across from Mooney's; but later he said it was the Darkytown Rd. Pat also said he spelled his name Boner - it is Boner on the stone. Maria gives his house as #83 which is on the Darkytown Rd.

Johnny Green gives "Bonner" as living at "French's Bay when there was a settlement at Green's Bay. Is this the one or is it Neil Bonner?

Maria said his wife's name was Hannah- everyone says Rose's sister Hannah was Hannah Veag- and that she was a sister of Rose, the wife of Condy Gallagher. She also said he lived on the Darkytown Rd. (Could there be 3 John Bonners?) Yes

• Pat's father - wife Sophia
• The one who lived on the Sloptown Rd. - wife Catherine
• One who lived on the Darkytown Rd. - wife Hannah or Mary Gillespie

There were 3 of them. The Darkytown Rd. one was "Big John." What the Sloptown Rd. ones nickname was I don't know

Pat -

Boner, Big John lived across from the Mooney house on Darkytown Rd in a house that had first been occupied by Shamy Gallagher who later moved to the Black Hills.

Pat says his wife was Mary Gillespie but this must be wrong - the tombstone says Catherine, & Mary wasn't born until 1860. His wife being a sister of Shamus Gallagher's wife sounds reasonable because of living in the same house (at different times).

His heirs are listed in the land records of 1889 as Bridget Boyle & Dennis Bonner.

In May 1877 he bought SW 1/4 of SW 1/4 Sec 33 T 39 R 10 from Charles O'Donnell (Charlie

Strack).

In 1889 his heirs sold it to Bernard McCafferty.

Catherine (Gillespie sister of Old John & the wives of Shamus & Shawn Gallagher?)

John Boner

May 3, 1817-1887

Donegal

P. 51

Married Catherine, May 10, 1819-Dec. 5, 1886

Children:

Bridget, 1860, [born] Penn. - married Dan Boyle, 1853 ( Penn.)

Dennis Bonner, 1855 [born] Penn. - never married

Mary, [born] Penn. - married a John Reed

Harry Mills, 1866 (adopted), [born] Penn.

John - Married Cicely Gall. [25] (?) - his wife later married Ostenburg

Anna - Red John daughter who married a Kane(?)

Catherine, born in Penn. & married Patrick Gall., son of Shamy

Bridget is in the 1880 census, married to Daniel Boyle & they are living with his people in Peaine Twp [26] (see Hugh Boyles card).

"Big John" who lived on the Darkytown Rd. across from Mooney's in a house that is now gone but was first lived in by Shamy Gallagher before Shamy moved to the Black Hills. He bought the land SW 4SW 4 Sec 33-39-10 on May 10, 1877 from Charles O'Donnell. Apr. 29, 1889 his heirs, Bridget Boyle & Dennis Bonner, sold the Bernard McCafferty. For lot on Green's Bay filed for by a John Bonner, see card of John H..

Bonner Family

Big John Bonner, 1817-1887 - married Catherine Gillespie, 1817-1887 [27]

Son - Dennis, 1855 - never married

Dau[ghter] - Mary, born Penn. - married John Reed and had a son Peter in 1878

Dau[ghter] - Bridget, born Penn. - married Dan Boyle born 1853 in Penn.

Son - John, born Ire. - married Celia Gall, Ire. and had son Patric in 1867, daughter

Maggie in 1872 and daughter Annie in 1874. Celia is the daughter of Pat, born 1810 and Margaret, born 1816.

Dau[ghter] - Anna, born Ire. - married Michael Kane, born Ire., 1839-1907 and had a daughter

Mary, 1875 and a son Robert. [28] Michael's parents are Thomas and Mary Kane. [See Kane family tree]

Dau[ghter] - Catherine, born Penn. - married Patrick Gallagher, son of Shamy

Captain John B. "Black" Bonner

(card #1)

Census 1815; on stone, 1821-1894

Married, Ap. 28, 1856, Sophia Harkins, 1838-1912; born Milltown. [29]

Children:

Manus, born '59

John W. - lost on boat in Chi. R. [30] '61

Tom (baptized by Father Murray)

Pat (the baby)

James - went to Wisconsin

Dan, 1872-1944

Mary - married Lanty [McCafferty] & [later] Harry Hardwick

Maggie Ann - died 1883, age 15 (stone)

Peter - died 1883, age 9 (scarlet fever)

John B. Bonner. Born in Rutland [Island, County Donegal], Ireland, Aug. 15, 1821. Died at St. James, Sept. 26, 1894 (stone), age 73 years. He is mentioned 6 times in the Dormer Day Book. [31] 1833 (when he was 12) he ran away from home & became a sailor. When he was in N.Y. he heard about the great fishing on the Great Lakes. He went to Mackinac Island & from there he and John O'Donnell fished in the summer. In the winter they went to Savannah & fished. (There is still a "Bonner's Landing" there.)

1855 - in the fall he went back to N.Y. & married Sophia.

1856 - He was fishing on Gull Island ( Lawrence says it was Whiskey Is.) with his bride when an Indian came and in great excitement said "Big Man shot." [32] He immediately came to Beaver Is. Harbor and stayed. He bought a house where the Parish Hall now stands and also the lots where the hotel is. This log house was later moved to the farm and used as an outbuilding - it is still there.

P. 28, 28A, 29, 30, 51, 52, 61-67, 87, 122, 130

1857 - He bought 80A where Pat now lives for $200.00 from James and Nancy Farrell - it was all forest (Pat). (He was a flayer, that is thresher, by trade.) (Was he a Mormon?)

June 9, 1857 - James Farrell to John Bonner N 1/2 of NE 1/4 (court house record).

Pat says he bought Sec 6 for the fishing rights for pound net fishing. This must be a mistake, the only sec 6 is inland between Millar's Marsh & Green's Lake. He must mean Sec 7.

The old house, still standing, was built from logs prepared by the Mormons and which they found lying on the ground up the road near town.

Farm - They raised wheat, oats, and rye, and one year even tried flax. The wheat they took either to Traverse City or to Elk Rapids to the mills where they exchanged 4 sacks of wheat for 1 sack of flour. They shipped out cattle, hogs, and a few horses as a money crop. These animals ran in the woods - there were no fences except around cultivated fields.

Boats (See under "Boats")

" Rutland" his first boat. He brought Bishop Baraga on his last trip to B.I. in 1864. "Sophia Bonner" built 1874.

Fishing - The attraction of B.I. was that when they fished out of Mackinac Is. they found the best fishing here. The Irish had been in and out of the Island before the Mormons but few permanent settlers.

Captain John B. "Black" Bonner

(card #2)

Northern Michigan, 1905

Son of Mannus Bonner of Rutland.

1847 came to America - landing in N.Y. City where he engaged in the fishing industry. Spent winters in Georgia - "Bonner's Landing".

Returned to Ireland as a sailor. Left ship & purchased a large amount of twine in Londonderry & manufactured nets. For nine seasons he fished off Savannah and visited the Great Lakes. Eventually changed his headquarters to Mackinac where he fished.

• Married Sophia Harkins

1856 On Gull Island with his wife - joined expedition of about 20 men to drive Mormons

off.

1856 Settled on the North part of French Bay. Aug. 10th moved his wife to a double log cabin formerly owned by Mormons.

1856-1859- fished and handled tan bark & lumber which he shipped to Chicago and Milwaukee in the "Sophia Bonner" - a schooner built at this time under his direction. For 21 years he sailed the vessel, in the meantime building another vessel for the coastwise trade.

1857 - spring - secured the present Bonner farm & moved there in 1858.

1894 - died

Captain John B. "Black" Bonner

(card #3)

Lawrence says that Johnny "the Rat" & Black Bonner were here before the Mormons. (They fished together in the east too) & that Bonner was the first to come back for good, landing at Bonner's Bluff, hence the name. (This does not jibe with Pat who says he landed in the harbor). Lawrence insists they were not on Gull Island, but on Whiskey; that the fall fishing was good on Gull & the spring & summer on Whiskey & Squaw.

He bought the N 1/2 of the NE 1/4 of Sec 8- T38 R10 in 1857 from Farrell. He neglected to pay taxes & in 1880 got it from the Aud. Gen. At this time he got S 1/2 from the Aud. Gen, giving him the whole quarter section. He also seems to have owned the NE 1/4 of NW 1/4 because in 1860 he sold it to Roy Peckham. (This later was got by Philip Connolly, his stepfather-in-law for taxes in 1868.)

Pat says he ran away from home to go to sea when he was 12 (1833 or '4). His mother was away from home at the time helping at the birth of one of the Roddy cousins (this could have been Andy Roddy for his birth date is 1834).

He knew Bowery in N.Y.

Death rec.:

Sept. 24, '94 John B. Bonner, married, age 73-1-12 in Peaine Twp, heart disease; farmer,

born Ire.

[See original manuscript] for possible family tree.

June 9, 1857 James Farrell to John Bonner N 2 NE 4 Sec 8-38-10

June 23, 1857 W. S. to John Bonner NE 4NW 4 Sec 8 38-10 40A $50

Oct. 4, 1858 W. S. to John Bonner Frl. Sec 6-38-10 1.6 A.

Nov. 8, 1860 he sold to Ray Peckham NE 4NW 4 Sec 8-38-10. (In 1868 his stepfather-in-law got this by tax deed.)

When Black Bonner had to take an exam to be ship's capt., they asked him if he knew all the reefs in a certain area. "No," he said, "all I know is where the deep water is." (Pat)

Pat's mother was at a quilting bee, also attended by the two McNutt sisters (see "Child of the Sea") who were to have married Strang in the spring after he was killed. They lived near Barney's Lake. Someone asked them why they, two sisters, wanted to marry the same man. "We thought it would be nice because we didn't want to be separated."

1860 census:

John Bonner 45 fisherman born Ire.

Sophia Bonner 37 born Ire.

John Bonner 1 born Mich.

Patrick Conlon (Conley?) 21 laborer born Ire.

Could this be one of the other John Bonners? The dates are wrong & Manus was the oldest son. No, this is Black John. The date here 1815 checks much closer with Big John's date, 1817, but Big John's wife's name was Catherine.

Death records:

Sophia Bonner, widow, age 73-3-20 died Feb. 20, '12 in Peanie Twp. of paralysis. Born Ire.; parents Thomas Harkins & Maga Carr.

Daniel Joseph Bonner, single, age 71-11-3 died Apr. 1, '44 in Peanie Twp. of apoplexy. Born St. J.; farmer; parents John Bonner & Sophia Harkins.

" Northern Mich"

Donegal - Rutland - "ancestral seat of the subject antecedents for several generations." "After sailing nearly every water of the eastern continent & visiting many countries, came to America in 1847, landing in N.Y. City where he soon engaged in the fishing industry." "He joined the expedition made up of about 20 men for the purpose of driving the Mormons from B.I. . . . The captain selected for his place of residence a beautiful site on the northern part of French Bay. On Aug. 10, 1856 he moved his wife to the new home, a double log cabin which a family of Mormons had formerly occupied, and immediately thereafter resumed fishing, assisted by 2 hired men. . . In the spring of 1857 Mr. Bonner secured a tract of land 5 mi. SW of St. James where he built a dock & from this place the shipping business was chiefly conducted. While he was thus engaged his good wife managed the farm nearby. . .on which she has lived continuously since (evidently they lived at French Bay first. The farm was bought by Farrell Aug. 16, 1856 & by Bonner from him June 9, 1857. (They probably did not get the house until 1858) "while making Mackinac & Gull Island his headquarters, Mr. Bonner traveled quite extensively in the south & spent several winters in Savannah returning to the lake region in the spring for the purpose of engaging in fishing." "In the early days he held the office of town & county treasurer. In politics he was a Democrat & in religion a Roman Catholic & to him as much as to any one man is due the founding of the Holy Cross Church at St. James. He was also instrumental in inducing a number of substantial families to locate on the Island.

John H. Bonner

1832-1906

Bonner Rd.

Wife, Mary, 1835-1869 - would this be the one married to Mary Gillespie? (If so, it must be Big John's sister.) Given by Pat Bon. Maria says his wife's name was Hannah - a sister of Rose Condy, therefore a Rodgers.

This is the 3rd John Bonner, the one who lived on the Slopt. [33] Rd. In Nov. ? 1864 there is a land transfer in Sec 3, T28 R10 (this is on the Slopt. Rd) to John H. Bonner from Archibald Newton. In May 1871 he sold this land to Cornelius Gallagher W 1/2 of NW 1/4 S. 3.

In Sept. 1906 he was dead because of the Charl. records say "John Bonner deceased" made over the above land to Condy Gall. (son of Cornelius, evidently clearing the title). But in Nov. of that year, 1906, "Conely C. Gall. made it over to Thomas Bonner.

A "John Bonner" filed (pencil notations) land office for the Lot 1 Sec 36-38-11 on Nov. 19, 1860. This is the center of Green's Bay, probably where the road goes down. I don't know whether it was this John or Big John. This John, because he is in the 1860 census & Big John is not until the 1880 census.

1860 census:

John Boner 28 fisherman Born Ire.

Mary Boner 25 Born Ire.

This is the right age for this John Boner & Mary Gillespie is the right age to be Red John's sister). When her son Patrick was baptized her maiden name was O'Donnell

(chr rec.) [34]

John H. Bonner- ? 1832-1906; wife Mary, 1835-1869

John W. Bonner

1869 (or '70)

Son of Black Bonner

He and Dan Green were drowned in the Chicago River on the steamer "Caroline". His picture is in the museum. Maria says they fell off the boat - drunk. Was in business with Mannus (see Mannus card).

Manus Bonner

[Born] July 5, 1859

P. 87, 161

Baptized by Bishop Baraga in 1859.

Married Annie Kelly, daughter of Patrick & Mary McCarty. Son of John E. (Black) [Bonner] and Sophia Harkins. He Built the Beaver Hotel (now the King Strang). He married a daughter of Patrick Kilty. (The parish records show this as Patrick Kelty.) Was this the Kilty girl Ann, baptized April 6, 1863? (yes) Mannus & Annie married in Chicago.

North. Mich.:

Owner of the schooner "Rouse Simmons" (or "Shannon").

1879 at the age of twenty, succeeded his father as master of the schooner Sophia Bonner.

1893 he and his brother John W. purchased a larger boat which they sailed jointly for 5 years.

1898 disposed [35] of his interest in the above and bought the " Peoria".

1901 " Peoria" wrecked in Bailey's Harbor with a total loss of the vessel & cargo.

1903 opened the "Beaver Hotel", July 1903, cost $10,000.

1904 Became associated with the B.I. Lumber Co. & in the same year purchased the "Rouse

Simmons" (or Shannon) which he rebuilt in Sturgis Bay & used in connection with the B.I.

Lumber Co. After several trips he turned it over to his Brother John W. as master.

After 1904 devoted his time to the hotel.

He was a prohibitionist.

Pat told Nonie that Mannus sold the "Sophia Bonner" & its cargo & didn't give the parents a cent but kept all the money. After that he stayed away from the Island 11 years, only coming back after his father died. He had been drinking heavily but went on the wagon & never took another drink. This was because Annie said she wouldn't marry him unless he stopped drinking.

He an Anna Kilty were married in Chicago. She was the daughter of Patrick Kilty & Mary McCarthy. [36]

Lawrence "Any woman who lived with Mannus Bonner all those years had the disposition of a saint."

Neil Bonner

1840-187?

P. 52

(Red)

He lived at the Bluff, in the opening near Daniel's house (Pat). He is listed twice in the Dormer Day Book & the account was guaranteed by C. R. Wright & Son. In the Day Bk. it is spelled Boner.

Is it this Bonner that Johnny Green gave as living at French's Bay when there was a settlement at Green's Bay? No it was John H. (in land records).

Pat thinks it must have been Neil who lived at Green's Bay. He came from a different part of Ireland, but Pat doesn't know just where.

1870 Census:

Neil Bonar 30 Ire. laborer

Grace Bonar 30 Ire. h. keeper

Neil Bonar 6

The age of the child means he didn't leave Ireland until 1874 or later.

In 1880 Neil is dead & Grace is married to Thomas Robillard with Neil living with them as a stepson. In 1870 census he is between Old Billy & Mike Mahal Rua.

Pat Bonner

From Ivan Walton - "Folksinging [on Beaver Island]."

"Unassuming, diminutive, sailor, farmer, Island fiddler, Pat Bonnar [sic] has not only supplied the music for Island dances for the last several decades on his "Stradivarius" violin - a faded label on the insides proves it - but he also composed and sang at least one song, "The Clifton's Crew." He is no doubt a better fiddler than poet, but he sang and dictated more than a dozen old songs."

Sophia Harkins Bonner

Born in Donegal to daughter of Thomas & Maga Harkins.

1847 - Came to America. Her father died soon after the arrival. Lived in N.Y. City until her marriage in the summer, Apr. 28 of 1856.

She was with Bonner of Gull Island when Strang was shot - Jun. 1856.

Pat - the Roddys & Bonners (both from Rutland) were cousins. (Just how this relationship worked I do don't know.)

The logs for the Bonner house were not found there but down the Fox Lake Rd. somewhere below the airport.

When Pat was 6 mo. old there was a Scarlet Fever epidemic on the Island. His sister, age 16, & his brother, age 9, died.

Maria- "People thought the Roddys & the Bonners were so much; if you were friends of theirs, it was something." Then she went on to tell what a drunkard Mrs. Bonner was. This explains the notation in Protar's diary - "May 4, 1893 - Mrs. B Liquor"; "Sept 30, Liquor";

1894, Feb. 20 - "Extra racket; Feb. 29 - "Will not do anything"; Mar. 2 - "Search all over"; Mar. 30 - "Thief"; Mar. 31 - "Mrs. Bonner arrested"; April 4 - "Trial Commenced"; Apr 7 - "Big thorough search, all over."

Thomas Bonner

1861-1936

[Born] Mich.

Fisherman (so listed in birth records)

P. 125

Wife Ellen Gallagher, 1864-1952 - [born] Mich.; daughter of Cornelius [assume daughter of Thomas and Ellen:]

Grace Elizabeth, Ap. 16, '01 (record)

Stone:

Mother Ella, 1864-1952 Father Thomas, 1861-1936

This must be Grace's father & mother. He was at the lighthouse at the Head - Dominic's assistant.

Ellen Gallagher must have been a daughter of Cornelius Salty as "Grace Bonner & Manus Salty are cousins"

Myrtle was lived in this home after her grandparents died.

In 1906 he bought from Condy Gallagher W 1/2 of NW 1/4 S3 T38 R10.

In 1910 he bought from Manes Gallagher NE 1/4 of SE 1/4 of S2 T38 R10.

Death records:

Thomas Bonner, married, age 74-7-17 died in St. J. Twp on May 31, '36 of coronary thrombosis; born Mich., retired; parents John Bonner & Sophia Harkins, both born Ire.

Bower or Bowers

Praiseworthy Bower is on Fitzpatrick's list of Mormons (made '50, Jun.). However, Apr. 8, 1851 Strang in N. Islander, says he has offered to join a band to burn the houses of Mormons.

Nicholas Bower - The Traverse Region., p. 49, in 1854 Judge of Probate of Grand Traverse Co..

Census 1850:

Nicholas Bower age 40 born Canada occ. merchant

Relief Bower 34 born Canada

George A. 5 born Ill.

Martha R. H. 2 born Ill. [37]

It was on his boat that he & Mr. & Mrs. Whitney & others went back to the Island in June, 1857 to see how things were. It was this trip that made the Whitneys decide to move back. They sailed from Bower's Harbor near Traverse City.

On page 56, His of the Grand Traverse Region, the "Bowers" are mentioned as "living in the vicinity of Old Mission, a family of Mormons who it is understood had in some way incurred the displeasure of Strang & his associates, & had consequently been compelled to leave the Island." It was at their house Henrietta Baxter, a fugitive from the Mormons, was married.

1 Indecipherable, possibly Indian

2 From the French L'Arbre Croche (The Crooked Tree), an Ottawa settlement along the Lake Michigan shore.

3 Beaver Island, Michigan.

4 Indecipherable letters, likely Am as an abbreviation for America

5 The Leopoldine Society. Established at Vienna for the purpose of aiding Catholic missions in America.

6 The following are likely a list of Baraga's publications

7 Fr. Baraga was known as the "Apostle to the Ottawas and Chippewas."

8 Could be Medlilna or Medlika. Likely a reference to a Catholic Parish.

9 From theologian Cornelius Jansen. Free will is nonexistent and only some of mankind will be saved through the death of Jesus Christ.

10 An anti-Catholic tract, published by Truman & Smith in 1835. Beecher was one of the most prominent Protestant clergymen of the nineteenth century.

11 This is probably a reference to a source, but is not clearly capitalized.

12 A colloquialism for Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

13 Abbreviation for Charlevoix.

14 In other entries this name his spelled Miller, and sometimes Muller.

15 Information is crossed out in the original.

16 A reference to "King" James Jessie Strang who settled a colony of Mormons on the island in the late 1840s and crowned himself King. He was assassinated in June 1856 by disgruntled followers and most of the remaining Mormon settlers were driven from the Island soon after.

17Kings.

18 Abbreviation for Ireland.

19 Cemetery headstones.

20 A subsequent reference indicates this quotation is from a book possibly titled Strang in America and in Mackinac

21 A Child of the Sea and Life Among the Mormons, by Elizabeth Whitney Williams (1905).

22 Could also be Loy.

23 A is the abbreviation for acre.

24A History of the Grand Traverse Region, by Morgan Lewis Leach (1884).

25 In another entries this name is listed as Celia Gall.

26 One of the three original townships of Beaver Island; the other two were St. James and Gallilee. ( Gallilee Township is no longer in existence.) In later entries it is often abbreviated to Pea..

27 Birth & death dates are different than above.

28 A question mark follows this entry and at a later chart there is no name Robert entered.

29 The words census 1823 appear here, probably an alternate birth date.

30 From a reference in a later entry this is an abbreviation for Chicago River.

31 A ledger or account book kept by James Dormer, 1876-77 (see his entry).

32 This is in reference to the assassination of King James Jessie Strang (June 1856).

33 An abbreviation for Sloptown Road.

34 This may be abbreviation for church record.

35 Likely misspelling of disposed.

36 Spelled above as McCarty.

37 This 1850 census information has been crossed out with an x.

Biographical Papers Letter C

Alva Cable

The Uncle

Whiskey Point

He was located at the point. He had a dock & a house. He bought fish and shipped them out & sold supplies. He was there when the Mormons came. He came from Fairport, Ohio. About 1849 he sold out to Peter McKinley and went to Charlevoix because of the Mormons. There he had a store and a cooper shop, employing several people. He was at the Battle of Pine River, July 14, 1853. After the Battle, Alva Cable & the Wrights went to Little Traverse (now Harbor Springs). He came with his boat and took Mr. C. R. Wright from Cable's Bay to Charlevoix because of the Mormons. Notes p. 16 (Child of the Sea).

The woman who is a Dormer says that her father bought out Cable - others say it was Wright & sons he bought out.

Modern note in An. & M. Mack. [1] Cable had come to B.I. from Attica, N.Y. and with him came a nephew, James F. Cable. (this is probably right & Mrs. W. Wrong- the _____ [2] knew James F's grandson).

Land office:

July 30, 1848 - Lot 2 Sec 26-39-10 38.60A $38.60 claimed under the Preemption Act

Smith (missionary) said "Cable of Fox Island, he is supposed to have gone there for fear of Mormons. (after Pine River?)

Mrs. Williams says McKinley bought him out around 1848. However he had not bought his land until July 30, 1848 & the patent is dated in Charlevoix Feb. 1, 1849, but it is McKinley listed in 1860 census.

History of Gr. Traverse Region, p. 81, lists him as being in Little Traverse in the fall of 1851 (he is called Albert).

James F. Cable

1821 -

Cables Bay. He was a nephew of Alva Cable and came from New York State in the spring of '50 ( perhaps- date _____ [3] from Child of the Sea), and settled at the Head, 3 mi. north of the Lighthouse. There he put up a dock, a house, and a store. He got our cordwood for the steamers, sold provisions and supplies to the fishermen, bought fish and shipped them out. He left, because of the Mormons, in 1852. After the Exodus of 1856 he returned and carried on his business for several years, later going to Mackinac where he bought the Astor House. He & his wife were from New York State - they had a son Claude who was about 2 in 1850 (Ch. of Sea, p. 73.)

In 1867 James Cable bought the E1/2 of SW1/4 of SW1/4 of Sec 22 T38 R10 from Wm. Brown. (I wonder why? This is small and an odd piece of ground to buy.)

Pat Bonner says he was a Mormon, but he must be wrong.

Modern note in A. & M. Mack:

James F. Cable moved to Mackinac Island & purchased the McLeod House which under the name of Astor House was for decades one of the Island's most famous hotel[s]. His grandson, James F. Cable II, still lives on Mackinac & is the owner of the Lakeview Hotel. (This was written in 1959.)

Nov 1, 1869 he homesteaded SE1/4 Sec 10 T37 R10. (North of Lake Genesareth).

Feb. 1868 he sold land in this section to Verrillo Taylor (North of Lake Genesareth).

June 1863 he bought SW1/4 Sec 11 T37 R10 from Andrew Trombly (this adjoins the above.)

Feb 1865 he sold it to Verrillo Taylor.

1866, by tax deed he got Lot 2 Sec 14, T37 R10. In 1868 he sold it to Verrillo Taylor.

1851 he sold lots 3 & 5 Sec 15 T37 R10 to Pleny Smith. In 1852 he sold the same lot to Ludlow

& Oren Hill (Mormons). In 1868 he sold lot 3 to Verrillo Taylor.

For all James' land transactions, see the land sheet on him.

Land office:

Feb 6, 1874- Claude C. Cable Hd. SE 4 Sec 4-37-10. 160A. $10. On Sep 20 1183 Edward W. Sparrow paid U.S. $200 for this land. (On W. Rd. S. of Miller's Marsh)

The 1860 census lists:

James H. Cabel 39 merchant born N.Y.

Harriet Cabel 35 born N.Y.

Claud Cabel 11 born Mich

Maud Cabel 6 born Ill.

Eddie Cabel 10/12 [4] born Mich.

The census lists as living in their home:

James Gibson 28 laborer born Canada

John Kelly 18 laborer born Ire.

Mary O'Donald 23 domestic born Ire.

Samuel Martyn 35 domestic born Mich.

James Cable

(card #2)

In 1852 Henrietta Baxter was living at Trav. City in the home of the Austins. She was the daughter of a "Mormon lady who was a widow. Mrs. Baxter had joined her fortunes to the Mormons of B.I.. Henrietta wanted to get away. [5] She was employed in the family of James Cable. She took passage on a vessel that came in. It landed her at Old Mission. Near were the Bowers who took her in & from there she got to Trav. City and Austins.

In 1850 she was listed by the census with her family on B.I. age 17, born in Canada. Her mother was " Delano" Baxter, age 47, born in Vermont, she can't read or write. The other children in the household are: Samuel, age 19, born Can; Cornelius, age 15, born Mich..

A letter from Cable's grandson, B. C. Morse, Jr. of Columbus, Ohio says, "my mother was born on B.I. in the town of Gallilee. That was in 1865, not long before my grandfather moved to Mackinac Island. My grandfather, grandmother, & uncle C. C. Cable left Cable['s] Bay in the middle of the night in a Mackinaw sail boat & were picked up by the schooner or brig Montezuma & 3 days later arrived in Chicago." (This must have been when they left in 1852)

Lakeview Hotel (Mackinac): $2.50-$3.00 a night - built in 1858 by Reuben Carpenter. In 1880 purchased by C. C. Cable who with his son operated it for many years.

( Mackinac Island in Pictures, p. 52)

John Jacob Astor House - first operated as the McLeod House in the early 1860s. McLeod sold it in 1870 (to James Cable?). Sold to City in 1930 for $8,000.

Diary of Richard Hulbert (a nearby) merchant, Dec. 9, 1890 -

"Miss Effie Cable, daughter of James F. Cable, landlord and owner of the John Jacob Astor House, asked me if you were taken sick in your store would you come to the Astor house to stay or remain in the store? I made no reply. A few days since I was attack[ed] by a severe bowel complaint which I believe was the result of some food eaten at the table of the Astor House, probably boiled oatmeal."

Campbell

1860 census lists Eley Campbell living in a household consisting of:

Anthony Swiney 35 fisherman born Ire.

John Coylet 40 laborer born England

Eley Campell 24 fisherman born Scotland

The Traverse Region (1884):

1858 Orrin Campbell came to Pine River from B.I. (also Alanson G. Aldrich)

Orson (or Austin) Campbell

This was a Mormon family who stayed on. They lived in the present Schmidt house, which is a Mormon house (present house new). One of their daughters, Mary, married Hardwick. She died young, probably in childbirth, and is buried in the field between Schmidts and the priest's house. She was a friend of Mrs. Williams. They rode horseback over the Island together. She was " 2 years older than Mrs. Williams," so was born in 1842. According to Mrs. Early, they moved to Charlevoix around 1884. According to "The Traverse Region" this family was one that Dr. McCulloch said not to drive out at the time of the Exodus. Strang lists him in Mar. 18, 1852 issue of his paper as living imprisoned along with the other Mormons in the last year. He was still here Nov. 12, 1872, because he bought land on Whiskey Point on that date from Dormer, Jas. Cable, & Allen. (or was this son Orrin? See below)

The land office shows that the SE 4 NE 4 Sec 34-39-10 was bought July 17, 1856 by Adam G. MacDougell, 40A for $50. This is the present Schmidt land where the Campbell family lived and stayed on. Mary Campbell Hardwick is buried here. Did MacDougell sell it to the Schmidts?

The Ben Campbell, capt. of the "Flora" mentioned in the "Beaver Island Girls," Maria thinks is one of the Mormon family.

"Mr. Campbell" in B.I. Girls was fishing for perch (different than Ben).

Land Office:

Pencil -

Dec. 10, 1860 - Alex Campbell filed for Lots 1 & 2, Sec 19-37-10. Iron Ore Bay. (This land not taken up until 1883.)

Smith Campbell is listed by Tip Millar as one of 8 in crew of Life S. S. [6] season 1882.

1860 census:

Orson Campbell 45 farmer born Mich.

Emily Campbell 37 (9?) born Mich.

Orson Campbell 19 born Mich.

Mary Campbell 17 born Mich.

Ezra Campbell 15 born Mich.

Emily Campbell 13 born Mich.

Benjamin Campbell 7 born Mich.

Tanson [7] Campbell 4 born Mich.

Smuth 3 born Mich.

Also in the same census:

Orsin Campbell 22 laborer born Mich.

Bahama Campbell 25 born Mich.

Oswald Campbell 4 born Mich.

Anna Campbell 3 born Mich.

Adlade 1/12 born Mich.

Mary is also listed in this census as the wife of Henry Hardwick, but age 19. Perhaps the families listed all their children, including those married and living in their own homes.

Patrick Carmody

1822 (1820 [per] 1850 census)

By 1862

Married, '62, Mary McDonough, 1837 - (Big Mary - sister of Vesty, see her card)

Marriage record Sept. 15, 1862:

Patrick Carmody, 40, Mary McDonough 26

He drowned off Sand Bay with Dan Martin brothers Eddie & ?. They set pound nets off the shore, using only a small boat to tend them coming in, the boat overturned and the men drowned in sight of their families on shore.

Big Mary married Morris Gallagher -1852, in 1870 (Big Phil's half-brother)

Children:

A girl raised by a family in Petosky (small & dainty)

Nellie - married Pat Roddy - she was big like her mother; in 1880 census [listed as] a

domestic in the house of Smith Campbell, age 14

Johnny Carmody 1867 - In 1880 census age 13, living as a laborer in the home of

Luke Lambert

Land office:

July 16, 1863 - Patrick Carmody Hd. SE 4 Sec 26-38-10. Can. June 10, 1876. This lies

back of the beach below Hanagan's Rd.

Nov. 1, 1876 - Mary Carmody Hd. this can. Jan. 29, 1883. (It was finally Hd. by Rose

O'Donnell - July 26, 1890. F.C. Sept. 25, 1877.)

He is listed in the 1850 census as living at Cable's Bay in the home of Daniel & Mary McCarty.

There was a Nellie Carmody who married Pat Roddy. They had no children. (Was this Pat's sister?) No, his child.

Edward Chidester

One of the 12 apostles & one of the publishers of "Northern Islander." [8] He was the canvasser who took the votes to Newago.

Dennis Chidester was Postmaster Feb. 24, 1852 - June 27, 1856

Edward Chidester was Postmaster June 27, 1856.

Next one was Bradner Curran, Aug. 1856

Did Dennis leave after assassination [9], leaving Edward in charge? Then Edward left later in the summer.

Cole

P. 77

According to Lillian, Donald Cole's wife, the Coles came from Switzerland. There was an old trunk in the Barney O'Donnell house with E. Cole 1851 lettered on it. Probably a Mormon. There were Mormons, Galen B., George, John, Lucinda, Sarah.

There was a Mormon, Gallen [10] B. Cole, who bought an acre of land from Erri James Moore in the fall of '48. In1850 he sold it to another Mormon, Samuel Shaw. Cole later moved his family to the Mormon colony at Pine River.

The 1880 census lists a William Cole, age 23, laborer, born N.Y., as were his father and mother. He was living in a boarding house. This is the one Nonie says came with Slocum & McGee & started a lumber mill.

The Mormon, Galen B. Cole was chairman of the Board of Supervisors in 1855. (See His. of G. Traverse Co., p. 98.)

Gallen B. Cole

(Mormon)

W[ife] Lucinda

K of St. J. says he was Supervisor Cole & as such visited Pine River to make assessment for purposes of taxation, p. 154 note (some accounts say this Supervisor was George Preston).

The "Traverse City Region" says he moved from S. Fox Island to join Geo. Preston at Pine River in spring, 1854.

Charles Connaghan

P. 132

There is a Connaghan in house #7 (according to Maria who was no relation to the Sand Bay Connaghans.) House #7 is opposite the cemetery.

The 1860 census lists a Charles Connaghan, age 70, with his wife, Madge, 60, living in Peaine Twp. With them lives Charles Gallagher, 13, a grandson.

Hugh Connaghan

1834-1894

B.I. 1858? (with Pete McCauley?)

House #23 - his store was here. He also owned the house #27, but Gill had a mill & store at this place.

P. 127, 132, 139, 144

He was a fisherman in Aranmore. He had a brother Charles & a sister Mary in Ire. Married (Sept. 18, 1878) Bridget O'Donnell, 1852 - [born] Aranmore. Bridget was 1st married to Daniel Donald McConnell (see his card); after Hugh's death she married

Lawrence Vesty.

Children:

Mary, Sept. 22, 1879 (Mrs. Vesty Vesty)

Hugh, 1882-1956 - married Catherine Malloy

Ellen ("Nellie"), Nov. 22, 1884 - married Rosh___ [11] ([Engineer?] on train)

Anna, 1887 - Ed ___ [12]

Tessie, 1890 - Matt Melville

Mabel, 1893 ( Mrs. Mike Cull)

The parish record:

Sept. 18, 1878 - Hugh Connaghan, Ireland, 43 - Bridget O'Donnell, 25

He came over in 1844 (this is a mistake; it must have been 1854 when he was 19 instead of 9) with Pete McCauley. He was a storekeeper at Sand Bay and a fisherman. He is mentioned 18 times in the Dormer Day Book. He fished pound nets in Sand Bay and lumbered in the winter, He got out ties and cedar posts. Hugh was going to sail on the Vernon to buy stock for his store on Sand Bay. He went to the dock to get aboard when "something stopped him."

Land record:

Lot 1 Sec 14 T38 R10 was passed from Hugh to Bridget Connaghan June 18, 1888. This is where his store was.

In 1870 he bought SW1/4 & SE1/4 of NE1/4 Sec 15 T38 R10 from Anthony O'Donnell (on Kgs. Hwy. just N. of Anthony & Sophia's house).

In 1888 he made over to Bridget Connaghan NW1/4 of NW1/4 Sec 23 T38 R10.

In 1860 he was living in house of Michael & Bridget Boyle along with James McCann. [13]

In 1870 he was living in a house with John Sullivan.

By 1880 he is married to Bridget & has a 8/12 daughter Mary (Mrs. Vesty Vesty)

Death Record:

Hugh Connaghan, died Nov. 8, '94, age 60, married, Gallilee Twp., [of] heart disease; farmer, born Ire.; father and mother not given.

Mabel Cull says the family at one time owned all the land from Mike Boyle's Beach to Vesty's. They let it go back for taxes except for the farm and its beach just above the Vestys. Then the farm was sold for a song. "Now people are paying 5 & 6 thousand dollars for lots there."

Ann McGladrey, a cousin of Cornelius Gallagher's wife, lived in the house and raised the children.

Hugh H. Connaghan

Hugh H. Connaghan, 1882-1956, married 1909 [to] Catherine Malloy, 1891 - (Maria's sister).

Children:

Lester

Lillian - married Donald Cole

Stones:

Hugh H., 1882-1956 Catherine L., 1891-

Marie Connaghan,

wife of V. D.Backus

1909-1926

Owen Connaghan

He is not in any census.

[Born] Ire.

Married Elizabeth McCauley, [born] Ire.

[Daughter:]

Bridget, July 24, 1878 -

Notes p 4, 65, 91

John Connolly

Mentioned by Tip Millar as one of crew of 8 for Life S. S. season of 1882.

Phillip Connolly

P. 67

Phillip Connolly, 1815 -

House #88

Wife, Imogene (or Ann), 1810 -

This was Pat Bonner's step-grandfather and he lived in Protar's house - in fact, Protar bought from him. (Was he Black Bonner's step-father or Sophia Harkins' step-father?) Probably Sophia Harkins - her father died soon after getting to N.Y. City. Yes, this is right.

Land record:

U.S. to Philip Connolly - Pat. Jan. 1, '62 SW1/4 of SE1/4 of Sec 5 T38 R10. (Next is Protar April 20, '93).

U.S. to Philip Connolly - Pat. Feb. 7, '71 N1/2 of NE1/4 & SE1/4 of SW1/4 Sec 5 T39 R10.

In 1868 he got by tax deed the NE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Sec 8 (across the road from Protar's house.)

Land office:

July 17, 1861- bought SW 4 SE 4 Sec 5-38-10 40A. $10 from U.S. (There is a pencil notation that C. O. O'Donnell filed for this in 1859.)

July 28, 1863- Hd. SE 4 SW 4 & N 2 SE 4 Sec 5-38-10 120 A $10. F. C. Oct. 6, 1870.

Nov. 21, 1868- Aud Gen to Philip Connolly tax deed NE 4 NW 4 Sec 8-38-10 (next to Bonner).

(This had belonged to Frederick Stone, sold by him to Peckham- 1861.)

1860 census:

Phillip Conley 45 farmer born Ire.

Imogen Conely 50 born Ire.

John Conley 6 born N.Y.

Mary Conley 4 born N.Y.

Pat says that after Black John & Sophia got their house built, she wrote to N. York for her mother & step-father to come. When they came, the[y] built them the house across the road from Black John's (Protar's), so it was not a Mormon house.

Charles Carpenter carved either the rail or the altar of church. [14]

Henry C. Cooper

" Northern Michigan":

Henry C. Cooper, born June 12, 1858 on B.I., son of above. Lived in Charlevoix, married Hattie Boak of Charlevoix in 1882.

The Minnie Cooper who married Wm. Harrison Bedford must have been his child & in that way the Fountain City House fell to the Bedfords.

Richard Cooper

The Traverse Region

Born in England in 1832 - came as an infant with parents to Rochester N.Y.; died in Charlevoix, 1897.

Wife Marietta Geer, born in 1838 in Mich. - living on B.I. as a child of 12 in 1850.

1848 he was a steward on a propeller and during a trip up the lake was obliged to stop for a time at B.I. He made up his mind to engage in fishing, and after finishing the trip, returned to B.I. for that purpose. He stayed 3 or 4 years and in 1853 went to Little Traverse. In 1867 he went to Charlevoix to keep the boarding house of A. Fox & Co., (the original Fountain City House). Two years later he bought it - was 1st sheriff of the county. For a number of years he was probate judge.

The Traverse Region, p. 145: "In the fall of 1853 Richard Cooper, now a citizen of Charlevoix (1884) arrived here (Harbor Springs) on the trading schooner Eliza Caroline, & opened a store for Capt. Kirtland. He had previously been engaged in fishing on the B.I.s. but had returned to his home in Genesee Co., N.Y." . . . That fall marked the arrival of Charles R. Wright, Albert (Alva) Cable, and James Moore" (Erri James Moore?)

He is listed in the 1850 census as living on B.I. age 19, born in Ire., a fisherman.

His of the G. Traverse Region, p. 80, says he came from Genesee Co., N.Y. to Beaver Island in 1848 to fish. In the fall of 1850 he returned home. In spring 1851 he came back on the schooner Eliza Caroline, owned & commanded by Capt. Kirtland. "Touching at Pine River, the Caroline landed several fishermen & a quantity of salt. Stopping next at Old Mission & then Northport, she sailed for Gull Island where Mr. Cooper remained during the summer, buying fish for Kirtland. In the fall he removed to Little Traverse where he opened a store for Kirtland, in whose employ he still remains (1883).

Fountain City House completed summer of 1872. Started as a shanty boarding house in 1865. In 1867 Richard Cooper bought and enlarged it - enlarged in 1877 & again in 1879.

From the Charlevoix Sentinel (reprinted in a Courier supplement):

"This house ( Fountain City) originally commencing in 1867 was simply the boarding house for men in the employ of A. Fox & Co. & consisted of the west wing of the house which was then only one story and a half high. The growing popularity as a summer resort forced Mr. Cooper into enlarging his accommodation & the large 3 story upright was erected in 1877. Again last year the house was found to be insufficient in size to meet the requirements & a large 2 story addition was built into the rear of the upright. The house has a large number of rooms, occupies a sightly position, & is during the summer months crowded to overflowing. Mr. Cooper, the landlord, has an enviable reputation among tourists and sportsmen."

Evidently the Minnie Cooper I knew as Mrs. Bedford was "Mr. Cooper's" (Richard['s]) daughter & this is the way it got into the hands of Wm. Harrison Bedford.

Jeremiah (Jerry) Corbett

[a.k.a. Jerry Corbell]

1854-1904

From Cork

For death record, see John's card.

He built house #80, log home on the Darky Town Rd. He was a bachelor. I also have him as Jerry Corbell. I have his death May 4, 1904, age 50.

In 1870 he bought from Charles R. Steele the NW1/4 of SW1/4 Sec 33 T39 R10. It must have gone back for taxes because it was included in a tax deed Bowery bought of N1/2 SW1/4 .

In 1884 he got by tax deed the NW1/4 of NE1/4 Sec 33 T39 R10.

In 1881 Neil Gallagher deed[ed] him the SW1/4 of NE1/4 Sec 33. Thus in 1884 he owned both sides of the Darky T. Rd. next to Dan Boyle. He must have sold the SW1/4 soon because in 1885 Hugh Boyle owned it & sold it to Owen Boyle.

John Corbett

Cork

1813 - (before '96, [his wife] died a widow)

Married Annabel (Ann, Fanny), 1815-1896

Son:

Jeremiah, 1855-1904 - [born] Canada - this is "Jerry"

Death records:

Fanny Corbett, widow, age 86-7-20 died in Pea. Twp July 4, 1896 of old age. Born Ire.; housewife; parents unknown.

Jerry Corbett, single, age 50, died in Peaine Twp on May 4, '04, cause unknown. Born Canada; farmer; parents: f[ather] John Corbett, mother unknown; res. St. James.

John (James?) Corlette

Headlands of Ohio (near Fairport)

John Corlette established a business at Cable's dock after the Exodus. He was father-in-law to Andrew Trombly. After several years he moved to Cheboygan, Mich. (Child of the Sea, p. 187).

Mrs. Williams says he was there in 1852. He married Jennie Crane in 1852. (No, that was James Corlette.) Both were from Headlands (near Fairport) Ohio.

1860 Census:

Anthony Swiney 35 fisherman born Ire.

John Coylet 40 laborer born England

Eley Campbell 24 fisherman born Scotland

1850 Census:

John J. Colet 30 fisherman Ohio

Benjamin Winchell 20 fisherman Ohio

James Colet 25 fisherman Ohio

Thomas Neal 17 fisherman Ohio

John Papeneau 18 fisherman Canada

Mrs. Williams calls him James - Land office: John. He is different from Jerry (Jeremiah) Corbett from Cork. There are 2, James & John; it was James married Jennie Crane.

Maria said Dan Campbell married a Corlette & she thought they were both Mormon families.

1880 Census:

Corlett, Maynard 22 fisherman born Ohio f. born Wales m. born Ohio

Corlett, Nellie 18 (wife) keeping house born Mich. f. born Can m. born N.Y. (Budwine)

Vincent, Henry 23 boarder laborer born Mich. f. born Mich m. born Can can't R. or W.

Bridget and Helen (or Ellen ) Correy

(card #1)

Bridget Correy Burns McCauley, 1831-1898 (Mrs. Dan G. McC.)

Helen (or Ellen) Correy McDonough, 1832-1916 (Mrs. Sylvester McD.)

Sisters, born in Co. Clare

P. 103

They were in Canada first and Ellen married Vesty there. The two oldest children were born there. In 1862 Patrick was baptized on B.I., so they must have been here by that time.

Bridget was first married to a Mr. Burns and she came to B.I. a widow with 3 children (one of whom was Nonie's mother). According to Maria G., her sister was already here & after she came to B.I. she married Dan McCauley who was a widower with one child. According to Nonie, his oldest daughter was christened on B.I. in 1859 (this must be "Nora McCauley who, according to Lawrence, was baptized on the same day with Joe Burke & Mannus Bonner in 1859). There is a discrepancy here. If "Mrs. Burns" was already married to Dan McCauley & had a child in '59, she could not have followed her sister here who had a daughter, Anna, in Canada in 1859. It is possible that "Nora" could have been a child by the first wife, the wife soon died and when the widowed "Mrs. Burns" came to join her sister, she then met Dan, & the Bridget, baptized Feb. 4, 1863 was their first child.

I now think both sisters married in Canada - the two families came together in '59, Ellen with a new baby and Bridget with a baby born after they got to B.I. -Wrong. Nonie says Bridget came & worked in a boarding house in Sand Bay, where she met Dan.

Bridget Correy

(card #2)

She was a sister of Vesty's wife Helen. Her first husband was named Burns & Nonie's mother was the child by his first marriage. There were two other children. I do not know whether she came to B.I. a widow with her sister & met Dan McCauley, a widower (whose wife died in Ireland) here or not. The Vestys married and two children in Canada but were here prior to 1862 (baptism record 1862) so it may be that they met in Canada. (See Dan McCauley).

July 13, 1880, Mary Burns married Mark Slocum - is this Nonie's mother or her aunt?

Bridget Correy

(card #3)

[Ed.'s note: this "card" is actually a piece of folded notebook paper with notes on it re: more

than one individual. It is filed at the end of the "McDonough" section.] 

Bridget was married by 1854 & in Canada by 1855 when her oldest son was born. Her last child by Burns was born in Canada in 1857. She was married to Dan McCauley & on B.I. by 1859 when Hannal was born. If they were married in '58 Dan was 42, Bridget 28.

Nonie says they were married on B.I. when she came to see her sister.

Owen & Celia Corrigan

Land office:

Jan. 13, 1857 - Lot 2 Sec 11-37-10, bought, 59.73A $74.68.

(West of Kilty's & fronting on McCauley's Bay).

Nov. ? 1865 - Celia Corrigan, Lot 1 Sec 11-37-10 12A

There is an 1850 census record in Mackinac:

E. Corrigan, 35, [born] Ire., fisherman, living in a house of 8 males

Mark Cross

Capt. of the Emerald Isle, 1955. Also Capt. of the North Shore for the Beaver Island Transit Co.

"His father was a lake captain nearly his entire life, starting his career in sail."

- Grand Rapids Herald Magazine, Sunday June 26, 1955

Bridget Cull

Bridget Cull - married to Paddy Mor Gallagher - her parents were Edward & Bridget Cull.

[15]

Dennis Cull

In the 1880 census Dennis Cull is 49, his wife Mary, 24, & they have 4 children, the oldest, Peter, age 5. This means they were married about 1874. If she came when she was 12 or 14, her census age is right. She came in 1868 or 70 - probably 70 - after the census was taken. (See Daniel O'Donnell's census card.)

Curtis

There was a Curtis who was a cooper, mentioned in B.I. Girls. Maria says there was a Curtis, probably no the one in the poem. He was an Indian and his sister was Mrs. Aller's mother.

David S. Curtis bought land on Little Sand Bay July 22, 1856. Jan. 6, '57 he assigned it to P. & J. McKinley.

1 James Jesse Strang, Ancient and Modern Michilimackinac (1854).

2 Indecipherable. Could be doctor

3 Indecipherable. Could be deleted

4 This is ten twelfths

5 There are no closing quotation marks

6 A short form for Life Saving Station.

7 This name could be Lanson.

8 Beaver Island's Mormon newspaper, published 1850-1856 and edited by James Jessie Strang. Later referred to by the author as "Northern Island.".

9 "King" James Strang was assassinated by disgruntled followers in 1856; this is likely a reference to that event.

10 Note the two spelling of Galen, Gallen

11 Indecipherable two letters

12 Indecipherable name; possible Dantos

13 An arrow points to the name Bridget with these words; Perhaps spelling is Hugh Golicher but age is right. It cannot be determined what is meant here.

14 It is not clear why this name, Carpenter is on the Connolly card. Or was this "Charles" a carpenter by trade?

15 The man married to Mary Gallagher is Lably O'Donnell.

Biographical Papers Letter D

Biographical Papers Letter E

Biographical Papers Letter F

David Faris

Pvet. Capt. Sloans Co. Ohio Militia, War of 1812.

Land office:

July 23, 1856 MBLW act of '55 - Lot 1 Sec 22-37-10 and Lot 6, Sec 15. Charlevoix shows the date Sept. 1859, which must be the patent date.

James Farrell

This is the man Black Bonner bought his farm of. He paid $200 for 80A. Farrell was a flayer and came to the island thinking he would have work threshing wheat, but he found it a wilderness and no work, so he sold to Bonner and left. Pat doesn't think he was a Mormon, but it was June 9, 1857 when he deeded the land to Bonner. It was June 1856 when the Exodus took place; he must have come in right after the Mormons if he was not one himself. He did.

Land office:

Aug. 16, 1856 - James Farrell & John Hale bought N 2NE 4 Sec 8-38-10, 80A. $100.

June 9, 1857 - James Farrell sold to John Bonner N 2NE 4 Sec 8-38-10 ($200 according to Pat).

Samuel C. Field

Ten days after the assassination (Strang still on B.I.) the " Michigan" returned with McCulloch, Wentworth, & Bedford & others on board. They undertook to "arrest" the Mormons in sight, firing on Samuel C. Field & threatening to take the Prophet dead or alive. - K. of St. J., p. 173

George E. Fisher

Land office:

July 22, 1856 - W frl of NW frl Sec 3-38-10 bought, 97.57A $99.46. (on Slopt. Rd across from Roddys').

Oct ? 1858 - Timothy Smith, Deputy Sheriff, made this over to Archibald P. Newton.

Richard Fitzsimmons

P. 25

1830 (1822, 1950 census [1] )

His first wife was Margaret, 1822 (1824 [in] census) - 1877. There is a stone for her (fallen).

Richard Fitzsimmons and wife Margaret are listed in the 1850 census of Michilimackinac Co., probably on Mackinac Island.

The parish record shows his second marriage on May 19, 1885:

Richard Fitzsimmons, 55 - Mary O'Donnell, 65

This Mary O'Donnell was Pete McCauley's mother who was born in Aranmore. This was her third marriage. They did not live together long. Fitzsimmons seemed to like them older. His first wife was 8 years older and his second 10.

There is a Mike Fitzsimmons mentioned 8 times in the Dormer book. He seems to have bought a house of Dormer. Mike is mentioned by Tip Miller as one of crew of 8 for season 1882 Life S. S.. Michael Fitzsimmons is recorded in the 1880 census as living as a boarder in the home, in St. James, of Paul LaBlanc. He is 30, a sailor, born in Mich., father and mother both born in Ire..

Jack (John) Floyd

(3 cards)

1842-1914

(Jacop in birth records)

His death is noted as Aug. 11, 1914 in Protar's diary.

P. 75, 86, 87, 117, 145

Married Mary Palmer, 1847-1935, on May 26, 1874 - born Mackinac Isl. (from Charles' birth record)

Children:

Johnnie, 1878-1921

Edward, 1890-1915

George, 1880-1947

Anna, 1883-1925

Frank, 1874-1936 (death record - 1869-1938)

Charles, 1875 - (birth rec. - b[orn] on Foxes)

Joseph, 1887-1958 - married Flora McCafferty

Frederick, 1896 -

Kitty - married Herbert McCauley

Mary - married Barney Martin

Stones:

[for] Mother Mary, [Father] John, Johnnie, Edward [and] in another part of the cemetery: George, Anna, Frank, [and] Joseph.

John Floyd was born in Boston, 1842 (military record shows 1840). He enlisted in the Union Army from Indiana where he was raised. He had one sister. He came to Michigan from Milwaukee.

Floyd was big man and very strong. He wielded a 4-pound ax and could chop more wood in a day than anyone else. (The cordwood sold was chopped not sawed.) He served in the Civil War. He would talk particularly about the Battle of the Wilderness. The Floyds came from Fox Island and were married there.

Floyd's description on Military records: eyes, gray; hair, black; complexion, dark; height, 5'11".

[He] couldn't read or write.

Mrs. Floyd had three sisters they can recall:

Sarah, who married a Miller (any relation to "Tip"?)

Julia, who married a Widerman

Augusta, who married a McCrea[r?]

When Old Lady Floyd said she remembered seeing Strang as a child she must have been in on boats with her family. (She was a Palmer.) They didn't live here until after the Mormons left.

Elizabeth Floyd LaFreniere says that Ann Looney was old Lady Floyd's aunt - that her mother was a Williams.

Mrs. Floyd evidently was not proud of the Williams family. She always emphasized the Scotch side of her ancestry. "My mother was a Yankee from New York State" was all she would say. She always insisted there was no Indian blood in the family. This makes it plausible that there was Indian in the Williams family and that she knew it.

There was a Mrs. McKinley Maria knew in Escanaba who "was a sister of Mrs. Palmer and looked very Indian." She did not know whether or not this was related to the McKinley of pre-Mormon Beaver. Elizabeth knows nothing of this.

Mrs. Floyd's uncle, Paddy Williams, was the one that lived in Strang's house. The Williams & Palmer families lived "back of King's Place." This looks as if they had moved into some of the empty house[s] of the Mormon town of Troy.

There is a Frederick Floyd, born Nov. 15, 1896 to John Floyd, born Massachusetts, and Mary Palmer, born Michigan. [John] is listed as a "fisherman." Mary would have been 49 when he was born.

Mary Floyd had some schooling on Mackinac.

The marriage record in Maria's application for widow's pension, dated Aug. 26, 1914. Date:

May 26, 1874; Place, Northport, Mich; Official, Geo. N. Smith, minister of the gospel. She is listed as "Maria Williams, maiden name Palmer." The birth places are given as Boston and Mackinaw, Mich. The place of residence of both, Fox Island, Mich.. He gives his age as 28, she as 22. The witnesses were Arvilla A. Smith, Northport, and Henry Longfield, Fox Island.

Information on the Floyd application for a pension, June 4, 1898. The list of children on Maria's application for widow's pension Aug. 26, 1914 is substantially the same:

John, Jr. Apr. 9, 1875

Edward Sept. 25, 1877

Mary Feb. 10, 1879

Anna Apr. 7, 1882

Lizzie Mar. 10, 1884

Joseph June 13, 1886

Agnes June 7, 1887

Kitty May 30, 1890

James Feb. 22, 1892

Frederick Sept. 15, 1896

He signed the May 1, 1911 Declaration for pension to come under the Act of Feb. 6, 1907, with an X attested by James H. Gallagher and Margaret Gallagher "who have been acquainted with the applicant 20 years and 40 years respectively."

Death records:

John Floyd, married, age 72-4-5 died in St. J on Aug. 11, '14 of heart failure due to age. Born Mass.; drayman; father Edward Floyd, mother unknown.

Mary Floyd, widow, age 87, died Mar. 26, '35 in St. J., of influenza. Born Mich.; parents Edward Palmer, born Scotland; mother, Annie, place of birth unknown.

Death records:

Frank Floyd - single, age 69, fisherman, died in St. J. Nov. 13, '38 of Coronary Thrombosis. Born Fox Island; parents John Floyd and Mary Palmer.

Anna Floyd - single, age 42-2-12, died St. James, Jan. 12, '25 of influenza. Born Mich.; was housewife; parents John Floyd and Mary Palmer.

Protar - "Johnny Floyd died Aug. 27, 1921.

Oscar Frederick

Census: 1880 Trout Isl.

Frederick Oscar, 30, fisherman, born Sweden, mother Swe., father, Swe.

Dominic Gallagher, 19, laborer, born Ire. Father, Ire., mother, Ire. Can't W.

As far as ages go, this must be the son of Patric and Bridget Gall. Recorded as 8 in 1870 census.

1 This must be 1850 census.

Biographical Papers Letter G

Gallagher [Multiple Individuals]

(card #1)

According to Pat Bonner, there was a Gallagher here when the Mormons were here & his name was Mike.

P [1] There is a baptism record, Dec. 2, 1862 of - Anthony Gallagher - father Dan Gallagher, mother Bridget Sweeny. Is this " Big Gallagher" or "Don Father"? à no, he didn't get her until 1884

No, his name was James Peter & he didn't come until 1871.

P July 16, 1863 - Hannah Gallagher was baptized, father - Dominick Gall., mother Mary Greene. [2] The only Dominic I have is of the Aranmore family that came 1866.

P Nov. 3, 1863 - twin girls, Ann & Hannah Gallagher were baptized - father James Gallagher ( à Shamus), mother Mary Gillespie.

Family of Kitty Gallagher

Manus Gallagher

Melody "Mel Big Owen" Gallagher

Mike R. "Mike Mahal Rua" Gallagher

Morris Gallagher

Neil "Big Neil" Gallagher

Neil "Neily Dominic" Gallagher

Owen "Big Owen" Gallagher

P Aug. 26, 1868 - Patrick Gallagher, 21, laborer, married Bridget Gillespie, 20, Ire. Is this "Paddy Rua" or "Paddy Mor" or still another Patrick?

Lawrence lists an Owen Gallagher, 1872-1954, saying "he was the last of that family, he was married to Sarah Gibson in 1905."

Gallagher [Multiple Individuals]

(card #2)

Am. Irish His. Soc. Article

1928 or 1932

Big Owen. "In 1866 there were 14 Gallagher families. They all came from Canada the year the Mormons left... All the Gallaghers that came from Canada, except one family, had come from Aranmore."

Canada

Paddy Grey

Aranmore - ?

New York

Tyrone Gallagher

Paddy Grey

Rutland & Penn.

Cornelius & Condy

Burton Port & Penn.

Hannah Veag

Donegal & New York

Big Phil

Kelly Begs & ?

Gallagher [Multiple Individuals]

(card #3)

Canada

According to Big Owen ("Irish Colony") the Gallaghers that came from Canada were all from Aranmore except one family. This family must have been the Tyrone Gallaghers. à wrong - they came through N.Y. & Penn.

"In 1856 when I came here there were 14 Gallagher families on the Island. They all came here from Canada the year the Mormons left. Later some, like myself, came from Aranmore Island."

The families:

Tyrone Gall. - 3 families

Paddy Grey & Barney - 1 familie

Big Phil

Francis

James Gall.

Cornelius [3]

Condy

Manus

Don Father

Owen

Neil

Dominic

Andrew "Andy Mary Ellen" Gallagher

1878-1939 (stone)

Married Lizzie Green (Red Dan's daughter), 1881 (about)

[Children:]

Mary m. McDonald

John m. Lillian[4] Green

Margarite m. Smith

Elizabeth m. Charles Wilmot

Emerald m. Shirley[5]

There are many of his records in the Library of Congress. These recordings were made in Andy's net house, where all the paraphanalia was set up & the Islanders came & made the recordings.

Lizzie talked about going to Christmas mass which was at 5 a.m. She & Andy would get up at 4, put the youngest in bed with the oldest girl telling her to stay in bed until they got back. The girl was completely trustworthy & when they got back the tree & presents were undisturbed. Lizzie & Andy walked the 3 miles out to the church (across the harbor on the ice if it was frozen) in the cold, carrying a lantern. They never missed. Her face as she talked showed this to be a most happy memory.

She talked about people being kinder in the "old days." When anyone would put up a new barn or house, everyone pitched in and helped.

For her telling about going to school - see "School" card.

The house they lived in was Mary Ellen's house. They enlarged it, putting on the 2nd story. __ Tilley [6] did the work & they lived there all through it. "A mess."

From information Clink Gallagher had -

"He was in fishing business with Robt. Gibson & the 2nd McCann Jr. they broke up partnership & Andy had a new boat built named the Elizabeth G. He enjoyed singing & with his daughter Mary at the piano to sing Danny Boy & a lot more."

Bernard "Barney" Gallagher

Rutland [Gallaghers] [7]

[see also Grey, Benjamin Eugene]

1840-1884

Born at Rutland

Married in 1866 [to] Mary Ellen Roddy, 1841-1903 (see her card under Roddy)

Sons:

Andy Mary Ellen

Paddy Mary Ellen

He died 141/2 years after the marriage and the children were called "Mary Ellens" because they were brought up by their mother. The father ran off with two women.

This marriage is in the Parrish records, Nov. 28, 1866:

Bernard Gallagher, Ireland, fisherman, age 26 and Mary Ellen Roddy, Ireland, age 25 h

There is a discrepancy in dates - if Mary Ellen was born in '43 she was 23, not 25, when she was married in '66. I think the marriage date more likely to be right.

He and Mary Ellen have the same stone in the cemetery:

Bernard Gallagher Mary E. Roddy

born in Rutland, Ire. his wife

Mar. 17, 1840 born Rutland, Ire.

died at St. James May 5, 1843

Mar. 1, 1881 died at St. James

July 28, 1903

Barney Gallagher mentioned 3 times in the Dormer Bk.

He was "gay." He had an affair with a woman here & when they (she & her husband) left the Island he left with them. He came back. Paddy was born. He left again with another woman (M.). She smoked a pipe.

Barney worked in the mines in Pennsylvania before coming to B.I.

Barney was the man in the boat with Old Man McCann when the boat rolled over (see James McCann's card).

In 1892 Mary Ellen bought from the Matthew Burchard estate the NW1/4 of SE1/4 S3 T38 R10.

In 1903 she made this over to Patrick E. Gallagher.

Land office:

Apr. 27, 1864 Hd. N 2NW 4 Sec 26-38-10 & N 2NE 4 Sec 27 - 160A $10 can. Jan. 28, 1874.

This was later Hd. by Hugh Boyle, Feb. 10, 1874, F.C., Aug. 31, 1881. It was their home on Hanagars Rd. - Tom Boyle Hanagar was his son.

[see original manuscript for Paddy "Grey" family tree diagram]

Bernard "Barney" Gallagher and Ellen Gallagher

(card #2)

His age in the marriage record & on his stone are consistent - that he was born in 1840. However he was consistent in the census reports as having been born in 1843. I am going to take the stone.

Mary Ellen's stone says she was born in 1843, the marriage record in 1841. The census records say: 1870 - '45 & 1880 - '46. I will take the stone.

If the stone is right, & they came to the Island in 1858 he was 18 when they came. He could well have worked in the mines of Penn. along with his father.

They were married in 1866 but had no children until 1868.

In 1870 they were living together but by 1880 Barney is listed in Gallilee Twp. living alone while Mary Ellen is in Peaine Twp with the 7 children, no husband in the household but she is not recorded as a widow. The next year, 1881 he died, age 41.

Brian "Brian Don Mor" Gallagher

1822 -

B.I. '59 or'60 thru Canada

P. 2

House #39

Bryan Gall. is Leatherhead ( Lawrence)

[see also John "Leatherhead" Gallagher]

He married a sister of Gracie Malloy Martin.

Wife, Catherine Malloy, 1837 -

He farmed at the Head at the Phiffer Place where Maria & I walked to.

He had a brother Danny Don Mor Gallagher, house #50

Baptism - Sept. 20, 1863 [8] Edward Gallagher

Children: Bert Gallagher - Catherine Malloy

Cornelius - 1857 ( Canada) i

Mary - 1859 Maria says this is Brian but if Brian was

Edward - 1863 married to a sister of Gracie Martin's this

Hannah - Nov. 27, '72 (birth rec) must be wrong as this wife is Catherine Malloy. (Right - the Gracie Martin was

Edward's wife & was Grace Malloy.)

Daniel Gallagher bought land in 1878 from Hugh Boyle (I don't know which one), the W1/2 of the NW1/4 of Sec 9-T38 R10. This is where the house is that Maria says is "Don Mor" Gallagher's. He must have been the father and Brian & Danny his sons.

Land office:

June 10, 1865 Bryan Gallagher Hd. SE 4 Sec 3-37-10 160A, can. Jan. 2, 1974. This is the 2nd ____ [9] above Lake Genesareth - in 1873 it went to Boardman & Sweet.

1860 census lists -

Bryan Galger 38 fisherman born Ire.

Catherine Galger 23 ---------- born Ire.

Cornelius Galger 3 ----------- born Canada

Mary Galger 11/12 ----------- born Canada

Cornelius 60 laborer born Ire. - this is probably Bryan's father

The census taker lists him along with Vesty, Patrick Kelley, John Sullivan, etc. which means he lived down at the south east side.

Nackerman says "Mrs. Leatherhead" would make butter, put it in a crocke, put the croke in a bag over her shoulder & walk to St. James from her home at the head. She would trade the butter for whatever groceries she could get for it, put them in the sack over her shoulder & walk home. Her last stop along the way was his grandfather's, Pete McCauley where she had a cup of tea.

Notes, p. 7.

Dan Peter "Don Father" Gallagher

1835-1920

Came from an Island close to Aranmore - Miskragh(?), Inniscara, see below.

Inniskeera (a topographical ____ [10] of Ire., 1839)

P. 62, 97

House #14

Wife - Mary - according to Am. Ir. Hist. Soc. Article she was born in Inniscara 1832 or 1848.

[Children]

Dan Gallagher Doney, 1861-1955; house #19

Mary 1880 (married Paddy Early)

Hugh 1871-1951, unmarried (stone)

?Mary (married Lably O'Donnell) - this can't be right

Patrick - died young - 1866-1888

Kate

Peter - went to Wisconsin

Rose 1874; 1900 census - married to James McCann, whom I can't figure out. No relation to Mayo McCanns.

Annie - living with Rose, 1900

A cousin of Cornelius Gall., and therefore a 1st cousin once removed to "Salty" and he and the 5 McCauley brothers were 1st cousins.

He bought his property at #14 from Father Gallagher. He came to America 3 times. First he went to Penn. & worked in the mines but he didn't like it. His cousin Cornelius had worked in the mines there but had come to B.I. in 1865. Don Father was a fisherman in Ireland. It was 1884 when he finally brought his family over and they came to B.I. because they had relatives here. (Cornelius came in 1865 - Conn McCauley who was here in 1863, etc). Daughter Mary was 4 years old at the time. She definitely states "Paddy Baca" McCauley was of the party "but this must have been when Paddy returned from a visit home to Ireland. [11] She also says "Danny Barney O'Donnell's wife and her family came in the party." Lawrence say this was the last of the migration for many years. Mary says Don Father & his family came from a small Island near Aranmore which she called "Minisbragh" as near as I could get it. This must be "Inis" - there is an "Inisfree" between Aranmore & Burtonport.

In the Early house there is a picture of Don Father and his wife. He looks a lot like Teddy Roosevelt.

Roland says that this Mary Gallagher is one of the women who went to bed & that she shrank up so small, her daughter took her in her arms & fed her like a baby. Her daughter says she had a stroke and was in bed 6 years. I asked if any of the women "went to bed" as I had heard. She said she never heard of such a thing; but I thought she had a peculiar expression on her face.

Stanley Floyd says she went to bed.

I have a note (from Lawrence, I think) that Doney was the first of the family to come over & that he worked in the mines of Penn. Perhaps he mixed him up w/ his father.

Death records:

Daniel Peter Gallagher, married , 85-9-5. Died in Peaine Twp on May 18, '20 of cancer.

Farmer, born Ire., parents Peter Gallagher & Catherine McCauley.

Charles Gallagher

1855-1887

P. 27 [12]

Wife, Mary Boyle 1863 -

(sister of Bowery's wife)

Daughter of William Boyle & sister of the "Billy" I knew.

Sister of Susan Sendenburg

(He married on the same day as Darky Mike & Nangog)

His stone says -

Charles Gallagher, son of Cornelius & Grace Gallagher, husband of Mary. Born Mockjunk, Pa., Feb. 1, 1855; died Oct. 29, 1887, age 36 years.

[W]as drowned on the " Vernon" and Molly [13] later married Ed Pratt.

Condy Gallagher

P. 144, 146, 147, 148

Condy, [14] 1847 (the uncle) brother of Cornelius

Married, probably around '68 or '69, Rose, 1847-1887 ("Big Rose") she was lost on the

" Vernon". Sister of Hannah Veag (M___) [but see below]. [15] Her maiden name of Rodgers as given in the birth records.

Children - birth dates [from] census [of] 1880 [unless otherwise noted] [16]

Neil 1878

John 1870

Phil 1873

x Cornelius 1886 - rumor has it he was hung in Florida. He is not listed in the 1880 census - wasn't born [yet] - he is listed 1900 - with Salty. Mame 1865

Lila 1880 - Isabel in census

x Rose 1883 (1900 census) - married a Mooney

Either Condy or Rose was a sister of Hannah Veag.

There was also a nephew Cundy - son of Cornelius.

He [17] acquired his land in Sec 21 T38 R10 in 1878 from James & Michael O'Brine.

In 1895 he made it over to Jessie Gallagher (she was his nephew Condy's wife).

Sept. 16, 1878 bought from the O'Brines W 2NW 4, & NW 4SW 4, Sec 21-38-10. This is where he lived at the Black Hills - where the house of the sheep was.

When his wife was lost on the Vernon he abandoned his children. Cornelius took some & so did Salty & his wife Nora. When their father left them their ages were -

John 17

Philip 14

Mary (Mame) 12

Neil 10

Isabel (Lila) 7

Rose 5

Cornelius 2 [18]

Condy C. Gallagher

" N. Mich."

P. 99, 147

1865 [19]

Son of Cornelius

Married Jessie McDonald, 1878 -

Born in 1861 in Mauch Chunk, Penn. [20] and brought to the Island at the age of 4. When a "mere lad" accompanied his father fishing. He also assisted in clearing and cultivating the farm. Since 1890 "has been in business for himself." In the birth record of Ann he is "Condy C." and he is listed as a "saloon keeper."

[later] This is the saloon keeper.

Children:

Lizzie (died in childhood)

Ann - 1896 birth record

Cornelius - 1898

Raymond

John L

Jessie [21] - in death records age 1 yr., 1 mo., 3 days. Cause "unknown," Dec. 28, '94 (mother is called "Daisy").

In 1902 he bought from Cornelius the W1/2 of NW1/4 S. 3 T38 R10.

In 1906 he sold it to Thomas Bonner.

In 1895 his Uncle Condy made his land over in Sec 21 T38 R10 to Condy C's wife Jessie.

In 1896 C. C. Gallagher got by tax deed & then 3 weeks later sold it to Philipine Gallagher.

Death records:

Chas. Donald Gall, age 11 mo., died Sept. 21, '08 of "cholera infantum," parents Condy & Jessie.

Cornelius Gallagher

(2 cards)

1828-1916

House #63

[Born] Burton Port [Co. Donegal]

America 1851

B.I. 1864

Brother of Condy, the uncle [22]

Married to Grace A. McGladrey, 1825-1910 - born Burton Port

Children:

John "Salty", 1856-1914 - born in Penn.

Elizabeth - born in Penn.

Condy C., 1861 - born Penn. - married Jessie McDonald, had a saloon, died in Chicago

Cornelius - died in Cheboygan; he was a bartender in his brother Condy's saloon.

Charles, 1855-1887 - drowned on the " Vernon", born Penn.

Ellen, 1864 - married Tom Bonner, 1902

There is a stone for Grace A., wife of Cornelius Gallagher, born Burton Port, Co. Donegal, Ireland, May 5, 1825. Died at St. James, June 12, 1910.

Stone:

Father Cornelius Gallagher, 1829-1916

"Neily Condy" went to Alaska and is now in his eighties - Roland. Sheriff of Juneau.

Cornelius worked in the mines in Penn. Charles' stone says he was born at Mockjunk [23] Penn, 1855, so he must have been there at that time. On Feb 5, '72 Cornelius Gallagher patented all of NE1/4 of Sec 4 T38 R10.

Myrtle Douglas['s] mother died when she was a few days old and the baby and the mother's body were brought on the ice. Myrtle lived in the grandparent's home until the grandmother died, after which she lived in her Aunt Ellie's home. Tom Bonner & his wife & Grace.

"North. Mich.":

Lived in Mauch Chunk, Penn. They came to B.I. to settle when Condy was 4 years old - 1866. "Place on which they settled is situated 21/2 miles S. of St. James and consists of 200 acres of arable land, one hundred of which has been cleared and is under a high state of cultivation."

He also fished. He lived on Round Lake.

In 1871 he bought from John H. Bonner the W1/2 of the NW1/4 of Sec 3 T38 R10

In 1902 he sold it to Condy Gallagher.

1872 he homesteaded all of the NE1/4 of Sec 4 T38 R10.

In 1882 he bought from David Preston the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 Sec 3 -38-10

In 1884 John "Salty" Gallagher took it by tax deed. This must have been a friendly transaction, an easy way for Salty to get the land. It is still the Salty house here. I understand just this summer (1965) Minnie Salty sold to Allen.

Land office:

Nov. 5, 1864 - he Hd. NE 4 Sec 3-38-10, 158 A. $10. F.C Aug. 17, 1871. Pat Feb. 15, 1872.

There was a pencil notation that Frank Gallagher had filed for this. "Settled Feb 24, 1862." This land is N and E of Barney O'Donnell's. The land he bought in 1871 from John H. Bonner, W 2NW 4 Sec 3, adjoins this land.

Death records:

Cornelius Gallagher, married, age 88, died Mar. 18, '16 in Peaine Twp. of old age. BornIreland; farmer; parents Charles Gallagher - mother unknown.

Grace McGladrey (Gallagher), married, died in Peaine Twp, June 12, 1910 of old age. Age 85, born Ireland; parents Charles Gladrey and Ann Rogers.

[See manuscript collection for family tree of Cornelius Gallagher.]

Dan C. "Danny Don Mor" Gallagher

1830 -

Married Bridget Sweeny, 1836-[1867?] (died in childbirth with last child)

Grace, 1857 - ; born Canada - never married

Dan (Piper), 1858 - ; born Mich. - married Mary Ann Gallagher, daughter of Big Dominic

Condy (called " Conn"), 1871 1861 - ; born Mich.

Anthony, 1873 1863 (parish rec. Dec. 2, '62) - ; born Mich.

Mary Ann, 1877 1867 - ; born Mich.

In 1880 his father Condy, age 80, was living with him & his wife was dead. Grace, age 23, was keeping house.

Dan "Danny Don Mor" Gallagher

(card #2)

1830 -

[to] B.I. through Canada, 1856

Wife Bridget Sweeny, 1836 -

[Children]

Anthony, 1862 - B.I.

Grace, 1857 - Can.

Dan, 1858 - Mich. à the right age to be "Piper" who married Mary Ann, daughter of Big

Dominic. Piper's father was Danny Don Mor right

Is this the one who homesteaded the land just south of Protar's?

The 1860 census lists -

Dan Galhue - 30 - laborer, born Ire. (hard to read) [24]

Bridget Galhue - 24; born Ire.

Grace Galhue - 3; born Canada

Dan Galhue - 2; born Mich.

Same house - also -

Dan O'Donald - 24 - laborer; born Ire.

Michael O'Donald - 12; born Ire.

Mary O'Donald - 24; born Ire.

Mil[waukee] Jour[nal], Jan. 10, 1932:

"Brine (Brian) the original of whom was a brother of Dunmore (Don Mor) Gallagher, & the 'Pipers' who got that name from the remark of a young man, not then able to foresee the time he would have children of his own, that he was going to be a piper when he grew up." Capt. Connelly (the ____ [25] of the reporter) explained "The Pipers are headed by Dan, a son of Dan Dunmore (Don Mor)."

Daniel C. "Piper" Gallagher

_ar_ [26] Turner thinks son of Danny Don Mor

(see Dan Don Mor)

Piper's Corner

There is a birth record for Grace Monica, May 21, 1896. Father Daniel C. Gall., born in Michigan, & Mary Gall, born in Mich. He is listed as "farmer."

Married Mary Ann - daughter of Big Dominic

Children:

Grace Monica - 1896 - she is recorded twice - the 1st as above - the 2nd Daniel G. &

Mary Ann

Margaretta Catherine - Feb. 17, 1901 (record)

Daniel T. Gallagher - N. Y. farmer (Tight) This is from Charlevoix birth records. This

Married Hannah H., Mich. one must be Tight for he was born in N.Y.

Children: & using the name James Peter certainly

James Peter, July 15, '97 indicates the Tyrone Gallaghers.

Dan F. Gallagher Birth record - Dan Anthony, May 7, 1900.

Married Hannah Gillespie Father Dan F. Gallagher - Mich. - farmer,

Children: Mother Hannah Gillespie - Mich.

Dan Anthony, May 7, 1900 [27]

Daniel S. Gallagher - Canada - farmer

Married Mary Ann Gallagher - Canada

Children:

Margaret Kittie - Jan. 16, 1901 - record à Is this the Daniel C. above? Margaret

Kittie & Margaretta Catherine certainly looks like the same person.

Stone in cemetery (same stone):

Patrick, son of Dan & Mary Gall., 1868-1889

Anna, daughter of Dan & Mary Gall., 1882-1900

Probably Daniel C. [and] Daniel S. in the birth records are the same as this in the cemetery. A child-bearing span from 1868 - 1900 is long, but not impossible.

Baptism - Dec. 2, 1862 - Anthony Gall. - father Dan Gall. - mother Bridget Sweeny

Dominic "Big Dominic" Gallagher

(2 cards)

Aranmore

[To B.I.] before 1863 (baptism date of Hannah)

By 1858, when he filed for land

House #103

P. 128, 135-36

Born at Green's Bay

Married Mary Green, 1830-1902 (a sister of Neal Green of Green's Lake)

Children:

Hannah, 1863; baptism in July 1863

Margaret, 1865-1956 ( Lawrence's date)

Peter, stone: 1870-1958; married Nangog's daughter Nora, 1879-1954

Dominic, 1867-1954 - the one I knew

Owen, 1872-1959, married Sarah "Sadie" Gibson in 1905, drowned. His birth is in co. rec. Aug. 5, 1872; father, fisherman. Sadie Gibson, his wife

Neily Dominic "Meanest Captain on the lake." - Maria; married Mamie Salty

Bridget, married Sam Dunlevy (Biddy Sams)

Catherine, married John Malloy, son of Dan - 1858

The night Maggie Dominic was born (in 1864), when they were still living at Green's Bay, Mary walked to town for a religious service; she didn't get back - the baby was born in St. James.

Notes of corres. between Tony O'D. and Charles Francis O'D. - "old Dominic was married to Mary Green, White Dan's aunt. She also had 3 brothers - Neal, Peter, and John.

Owen married Sadie Gibson - daughter of William Gibson and sister of Jack. These two children were left on B.I. when their mother left the island after an unauthorized pregnancy after her husband had been drowned.

Johnny Green gives Dominic Gallagher as one of the 12 families living at Green's bay. This Mary Green is one of the women who went to bed. According to Roland she was in bed 18 years when a pig fell in the well and she got up to get it out. There was also something about the house catching on fire. But I'll have to ask Roland about this. See card of Dominic (2) for his singing.

There is a stone:

Mother Mary, father Dominick, but no dates.

Beside it is a smaller stone:

Mary Gallagher, 1830-1902.

There were three fiddlers in this family and "the mother was a great one to dance a jig."

Land office:

Pencil -

Apr. 10, 1858 - he filed for SE 4NE 4 Sec 9-37-10 (N. of Lake Gen.). This land had been put under the Swampland Act, Jan. 5, 1854. [28]

Oct. 1, 1860, he filed for lots 1, 2, and 3 Sec 36-38-11 (Green's Bay). (These were Hd. Jan. 28, 1863 by "Connel McCauley" but can. Sept. 3, 1877.

Ink -

Feb. 10, 1874 - Hd. E 2SE 4 and E 4NE 4 Sec 22-38-10. F. D. Aug. 27, 1881. On Hanagan's Island.

Death records:

Mary Green, married, age 72, died in Pea. Twp, July 6, '02 of influenza. Born Ire.; housewife; parents Hugh Green and Bridget Gall. Oddly, this is "Mary Green" not "Mary Gallagher."

Dominic Gallagher

(2nd Gen.)

1867-1954

Born at Green's Bay

Married Kathleen Roddy (Pidgie), 1880-1937

Children:

Baby Mary (died)

Andrew

This is the one I knew. From Ivan Walton "Folksinging on B.I.", "Tall, stately, white-haired, tenor voiced, and genial, Dominick Gallagher, a retired lighthouse keeper, who himself recorded a score or more of songs, paid high tribute to his Ireland-born father, who he said, sang old songs at parties all over the island. Almost until the day he died. 'With a few drinks, he'd sing all night.' He seemed to be the one who brought a great share of the current Irish songs to the Island."

Bid Sendenburgh says there were pictures of the Roddy family in their home, but after Pidgie died he put them out in the shed. He was light keeper at the Head. Tom Bonner his assistant.

Mel spoke of how good Dominic was to her father and mother in their old age. He would come to visit often and sing the old songs for her father and bring a sack of candy, to her mother. Sometimes it seemed Provident. The old folks would be particularly blue, and his visits cheered them immensely.

Dominick Gallagher

Whose son?

Married Mary Mooney, Ireland [29]

Children:

Stillbirth, Nov. 8, 1894 -

Owen, Mar. 31, '97 -

This is from Charlevoix birth records. In 1894 he is listed as a fisherman; 1887, fisherman. The first time her birthplace is Ireland, the second, Mich. The continuation of the name Dominick and a son Owen make it look like a second generation of Kitty Gallagher's family.

Dominick Gallagher, [born] Mich, farmer, married Rosie O'Donnell, [born] Mich.

Children:

James Dominick, Dec. 1, 1901

Daniel "Doney" Gallagher

1861-1965

P. 46, 64, 101

[Born] Penn.

Married a daughter of Nangog's cousin - I also have this as a niece of Nangog's 1st husband -

"Mrs. Doney Gall.'s uncle was Nangog's 1st husband" (I don't know where I got this).

Sons:

Hubert, 1915-1938

Peter - Mary Early lives with him - she has made the property over to them

There is a stone for him [Doney] & for his son Hubert.

He went back to Ireland to get his bride who, Maria tells me, was a daughter of Nangog's cousin. All stories agree that he told a lot of lies about his importance and wealth and that the bride came here believing them.

Marguerite - When she got to the Island they landed at Whiskey Pt. where the McCann store was. Mrs. McCann befriended her & felt sorry for her (still believing her husband) because she knew the bride was going out in the country to "a little log cabin. She was always a sad woman because her husband lied to her." When they got to Charlevoix she asked why he didn't send for one of his ships. He said they were supposed to meet them with one of his many boats & he would give them hell for not doing so.

Stanley Floyd says in his old age he said he was rich & went to bed. Stanley was there with other young fellows & he had been drinking. He told Doney to get up like a man & fight. Doney jumped out of bed & squared off & the children said "I__ [30] the first time Pa's been out of bed in 7 years."

Lizzie Gallagher (Lizzie Andey) says he was much older than his wife - she "felt sorry for her with that old man."

I have a note (from Lawrence I think) that Doney was the first to come over - before the rest of the family - & had worked in the mines of Penn..

Lawrence said Doney knew his grandfather Malloy in N.Y. This is impossible because Doney wasn't born until '61 & Dan Malloy was on Beaver in '57. It might have been Don Father that knew Malloy. (p 101)

Daniel T. "Tight" Gallagher

Hannah "Hannah Veag" Gallagher

Hugh Gallagher

James Gallagher

 

James Gallagher

James E. Gallagher

 

James F. Gallagher

 

James Peter "Big" Gallagher

 

James Peter "Big" Gallagher

"Jimmy the Jew" Gallagher

Joe "Joe the Priest" Gallagher

John C. "Salty" Gallagher

John "Leatherhead" Gallagher

 

John "Shoemaker" Gallagher

Kitty Gallagher