Hello everone,
I have some Miami Co. roots, and am planning to make a trip back there
for research in a few weeks, and so perhaps someone can make my research
more fruitful...I hope.
I have two surnames that entered Miami Co back around 1860 or so.
The first name is Moses Kenney, who is found there in Peru in 1860
(spelled Masey Kiney), from Ireland. He and his wife Elizabeth Higgins
raised seven children there, who show up on the 1870 Miami Co., Clay
township census, but by 1874 they had gone to the Kentland, IN area
(Moses was murdered in Kentland on Aug 9, 1875). They lived with a John
Kenney from Ireland who may have been a brother to Moses. A John Kenny
(maybe the same) shows up on the 1880 census in an insane asylum in
Washington township and I wonder if anyone out there would know if any
records still exist for such places. I think that Elizabeth may have
died after that 1870 census, but I would like to know when.
I believe a John Higgins family who farmed in Washington township
(1870 census) and were there at least until 1877 was related to
Elizabeth. They are missing in my data files until 1900, where they
show up in Pulaski County, and I would like to know if anyone out there
has any relations to them. They are also Irish Catholic.
There is also a brother Miles Higgins who is in Peru in 1870 but has
flown the coop by 1880 (to Benton Co.)
Are there any of you who knows about the Kenneys or Higgins?
I plan to go again to the Library and to the courthouse, but would like
to know if there are other places where records from the 1860s and '70s
could be found.
sincerely,
Joe Kenney, Palmer, Alaska.