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From: EDWARD D COSTELLO <>
Subject: Re: [ABERNATHY-L] one name study
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:10:29 -0500


JAMES ......... I've a Catherine Abernathy who was a true American
pioneer, as follows. Is she "connected" to your Abernathy?

All The Best, ED COSTELLO e-mail:<>
Website:<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ed1009/>;
COSTELLO (FAHEY): Co Mayo Ireland>CT.MA.ME.USA>USA;
JOYCE (DOWER):Co.Mayo.Ireland>MA.USA;
HAGGERTY (McGUIRE):Co.Donegal.Ireland>NB.Canada>ME.USA >USA;
LAVERTY (BROWN),
(KELLY):Co.Armagh.Ireland>NB.Canada>ME.CA.USA>USA.Canada.


FRANCIS (FRANK) HAGGERTY & CATHERINE ABERNATHY:
CHILDREN:... |John F| Maude| Alice| Frank| Clara| Peter| Mary|


b: 1848, Belfast Academy Grant (Ludlow ME); baptized 30 March 1848, St
Mary's RCCh, Houlton ME
"From the Marshall County Historical Society compiled by Jack & Josie
Haggerty in 1979: Frank Haggerty was born in Belfast Academy Grant, now
Ludlow ME, near Houlton ME. His parents were born in Co Donegal, Ireland
and later came to ME USA. He met and married Catherine Abernathy,
1850-1927. Catherine was born in Woodstock NB Canada on March 19, 1850.
When she was six yesrs old, she moved with her parents to Houlton ME
where she grew to womanhood. She was of English decent. In 1881 Catherine
and Frank moved west to Stillwater, MN where they settled on a farm. In
1883 they moved to Traverse County where they settled on a another farm
near Beardsley, MN (land records state, that Frank on 19 January 1884
owned 160 acres of "homestead" in what is now Section 29 of Arthur
Township.
Around the year 1893, Frank left Catherine and their five children and
moved to Bemidji, MN where he worked in a lumber camp. It is believed
that he died there (date unknown). Catherine loaded her possessions and
her five children into a lumber wagon and moved to Sisseton, SD where
Catherine became the proprietor of a hotel. This hotel was mostly a
boarding house for men. In the year 1897 she sold that hotel and erected
a new building where she operated a first class hotel. called the
Commercial Hotel, and enjoyed a large patronage. The Commercial Hotel was
a beautiful building that was surrounded by a pillared porch. This is
where she remained until she died on July 8, 1927. Catherine is buried in
Beardsley, MN, St Mary's Cemetery. Her tombstone is located about fifteen
feet directly from the front gate. According to newspaper clippings sent
from Dorothy Haggerty/Jensen, Catherine Haggerty died at the home of her
daughters, Mesdames Holland and Pearson, ten miles west of Sisseton.
Dorothy Haggerty/Jensen has corrected that information with the following
"I remember my grandmother's death at our farm out of Sisseton. We kids
always said our prayers at Grandma's lap and I remember her asking us to
pray for her death the night or so before she died. I also recall how I
felt. This was such a terrible request. I was only about 61/2 years old".
The funeral services were held at the home of her daughter, Mrs Maud
Pearson in Drywood Lake Township and at the Catholic church in Beardsley,
Minnesota to which place the remains were taken and buried in the family
lot in Beardsley cemetery. The article refers to her as ""a woman with a
heart of gold, her generosity knew no bounds and she never turned a deaf
ear to the needy and afflicted"".
"Their 7 children listed chronologically were, John, Maud, Alice, Francis
Leo (Frank), Clara, Mary (died January 5, 1880-4 days old) and Peter
(died November 21, 1883 at age of 7 months)
|PIX: Frank & family|

|PIX: Haggerty Family Reunion, nr Seattle WA, 1999|
m: Catherine Abernathy , 14 August 1871 (date of their m: intensions per
town records), Houlton ME
Town of Houlton ME records..."Houlton August 14, 1871, marriage is
intended between Mr Frank Hagerty of Littleton and Miss Catherine Abnethy
of Houlton, both in Aroostook Co... signed Hadley Fairfield, Town Clerk"

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