There's family lore (that I haven't been able to document yet) that he
"worked on the railroad" and "was present when they drove the golden
spike."
It's plausible that he worked on the railroad in Iowa, though it was more
likely the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad, which started construction
in 1856, and not the transcontinental railroad, which didn't start
construction until 1862 - two years after his death (and that spike wasn't
driven until 1869!)
It's also possible that family is mixing up father John (who died in 1860)
and his son John, who lived much longer, and could *possibly* have traveled
to Utah for the driving of the spike, but I doubt it - he was pretty
thoroughly a farmer, and I have land purchase records from the early 1870s
when he moved from renting to owning his farm.
Regardless, if either of them worked for the railroad at any time, I
haven't been able to track down who for, and he hasn't shown up in any of
the cursory searches of railroad records that I've done.
.a.
On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Patty Finnegan <kismit18(a)gmail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kismit18@gmail.com');>> wrote:
I cannot help but respond to your note that your Casey ancestor died
young. My g-grandfather, Michael Casey was dead at 21. Michael was born
in Bloomberg, PA in 1892. Michael was a middle child in a large family;
his father and young siblings worked in the coal mines. With one
exception, they all disappeared by the time the 1900 census was published,
all the siblings were quite young at the time. Do not know what Irish
county Michael's father was from but do know his mother, was a Fitzgerald
that was born somewhere in NY.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Alyska Bailey via <casey(a)rootsweb.com>
wrote:
> I have Casey ancestors that I believe are from Cork - a couple of
> unsubstantiated family records list my John Thomas Casey as being born in
> Yellowford, Co Cork, IRE, sometime between 1813-1820.
>
> His birthplace, parentage, and burial location are my current brick walls.
>
> He immigrated to the states after that, and next shows up in Virginia/WVA
> marriage records in 1848(?), then in the 1850 census there, 1856 IA state
> census, and dead before the 1860 census (at the young young age of 38.)
>
>
> .a.
>
> On Sunday, January 4, 2015, Maryann Lane via <casey(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
>
> > Trying to find info on my Casey ancestors from the town of Glanworth in
> > Cork. Hanora Casey married Owen Sullivan in Glanworth in 1840s. Children
> > were James and Daniel.
> >
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