The following was posted by Bette Bellefeuille <bellfay(a)earthlink.net>
on Sun, 05 Mar 2000
on the Lander County GenConnect Query Forum:
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Surname: O'LEARY, BILLS, BECKER, BAKER, MEFFLEY, MARTIN, FRANKLIN,
MACDONALD, ROUCH
Searching for information on Richard and Dorothy(BILLS)O'LEARY. Richard
was born in County
Cork,IRE. and came to the US in about 1850. He married Dorothy in
Trinity co., CA and they
moved with their 2 young daughters, Kate and Belle, to Galena, Lander
co., NV in about 1869.
There the following children were born; William Richard in 1870, Ellen
in 1875, Frances Elvira in
1879, Nora in 1881 and Francis Robert in 1884. Richard moved the family
to Lewis, Lander county
shortly afterword to work in more productive mines. Richard died in
Lewis in 1899.
The children married the following: Kate to John Meffley, Belle to Henry
Baker (Becker), Wm.
Richard to Marie Frances Lane, Ellen to Frank Martin, Frances to Charles
Franklin, Nora to Don
MacDonald, and Francis Robert to Pearl Rouch.
Does anyone know if there is a cemetery surviving in Lewis?
I will gladly share information on this family, most of whom stayed in
Nevada or California.
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