Kathleen,
Thank you! Go ahead and send the photos and I will
get them up and linked by this weekend. Your family
history is so interesting! Wouldn't it be fun to go
back and visit with them for a little while?
Let me know when you are coming and we will select an
area for you to photograph. Thanks for volunteering!
Debby
Kathleen wrote:
I already have photos of a few family tombstones
from Mt. Hope/St. Vincent
that I will send to you for the project. I live in
Illinois and make one trip a
year to Logansport for my genealogy research. I
will definitely volunteer to
take photos for you at Mt. Hope when I visit this
year.
My grandfather Patrick Francis FITZGIBBON had a
saloon in Logansport on the
corner of 12th & Erie circa 1905. He then owned the
saloon across the street
that became the famous Polsinelli's. Patrick's
first wife was Anna Marie BYRNE
who died of tuberculosis at the age of 26. Their
daughter Mary Ann
FITZGIBBON married George SMITH. Anna, Mary Ann and
George are all buried at Mt.
Hope/St. Vincent. Also, Anna Marie's sister Delia
BYRNE MONEHEN is buried there
with her husband James and son John, and John's wife
Lavon. I have photos of
all the tombstones.
My grandfather married my grandmother Sarah RYAN in
Chicago in 1915. They
lived in Logansport in an apartment above the
business with both of their
widowed mothers. Mary HENNESSY FITZGIBBON died in
January 1916; Catherine FOLEY
RYAN died in August 1916 -- both of apoplexy
(stroke). According to an employee
of the old Polsinelli's Bar, the upstairs living
quarters is supposedly
"haunted"! If it is, the haunters are my two old
Irish great-grandmothers who died
there in 1916!! Patrick and Sarah moved to Chicago
after Prohibition forced
them to close the saloon. They had a grocery and
butcher shop until the Great
Depression when they lost that business, as well.
My grandparents and
great-grandmothers are buried in Chicago cemeteries.
Kathleen Richmond
Oak Forest, IL (near Chicago)
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