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From: "Reta Diedrich" <>
Subject: Re: [ILJERSEY] Elizabeth Lannon Information Request
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 12:42:35 -0500


hey, this is me again. You referred to a bap. record with the words
fidelity/medora. Could this possibly be a catholic baptism and those words
being Latin for ????. I know a bit of Latin so maybe I can help there.
Also often the godparents can be pieces of the puzzle.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael S. McGough <>
To: <>
Date: Friday, October 01, 2004 8:20 PM
Subject: [ILJERSEY] Elizabeth Lannon Information Request


> I am looking for any information I can find on this lost soul. Here is
what
>I know:
>
>Birth: Abt. 1840 (IRE - King or Queens Co - I think)
>Marriage: Cornelius Whalen, Jersey County, Dec 25, 1856
>Death: Abt 1867-70 (Location Unknown Poss. Jerseyville area)
>
>Children:
>
>Mary Ann Whalen: Birth - September 01, 1858
>Daniel Whalen: Birth - July 30, 1861
>Thomas Whalen: Birth - January 10, 1867
>
>I also know she appears with Cornelius in 1860 Census:
>
>WHEELER CORNELIUS 22 M W IREL IL JERSEY JERSEYVILLE PCT 1860 He was with
>Lizzie 20 and child Mary Ann, 1
>
>Her Son Thomas Whalen's Obit said that she died when he was an infant. I
>believe during that time they would still have been in Jersey, However, I
>also have some information that shows an orphaned Thomas Whalen:
>
>There was also a Thomas Whalin, age 2, listed as an orphan in 1870, in
>Montgomery Co., IL. Also but in a differ location his brother Daniel and
>sister Mary are also shown as orphans.
>
>Which lend credibility to the fact that I was told that the father up and
>went out west at some point and left all his kids at a crossroads. If he
was
>an orphan at that age in 1870 then his mother died maybe around 1867 -
>1870ish.
>
>What I am looking for is any information on possibly where this woman is
>buried, how she died, anything at all. It is obvious by census records they
>were in Jersey in 1860s then possibly the youngest son was orphaned by his
>father sometime after the mother died.
>
>Any information on her, possibilities where they could have been buried or
>anything would be great. I think they lived in Jerseyville PCT, but I also
>have a baptism cert for Thomas that says something about fidelity/medora.
>
>Any help on her would be immensely appreciated.
>
>Mike McGough
>
>
>
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