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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [MCNALLY] Bio of Robert H McNally and other stuff...
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:49:17 -0500


Historical and Biographical Record of Black Hawk County, Iowa. Chicago:
Inter-State Pub. Co., 1886.

Robert H. McNally was born in County Mayo, Ireland, January 4, 1849. In 1865
his parents, John and Eliza (Dennis) McNally. left their old home in Ireland and
with their four children embarked for America landing at Quebec. They at once
proceeded to Cedar Falls, Black Hawk County, Iowa, where they had relatives, and
there made their home for a short time. The father bought land in Union
Township, where he settled, but he did not live to enjoy his home, his death
occurring in 1866, at the age of sixty-two years. His widow survived till March
5, 1883, dying at the home of her son John, in Black Hawk County, aged
seventy-four years. Of their children, John lives in Palo Alto County, Iowa;
Peter resides in Lincoln Township; a daughter, Mrs. Maria Fuller, resides in
Clay County, Iowa, and our subject. Their daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Coughlin,
remained in Ireland, where she still lives. Our subject commenced life for
himself at that age of sixteen years, and for three years worked as a farm hand.
He then farmed for himself on rented land for a few years, and in 1875 he
purchased his present farm of 160 acres on section 10, Lincoln Township, where
he is devoting his attention to stock and dairy farming. October 4, 1882, he was
married to Miss Ida J. Thompson, who was born in McDonough County, Illinois,
November 8, 1862, a daughter of W.P. Thompson, of Lincoln Township. This union
has been blessed with one daughter-Dora Irene. Mr. McNally is one of the active
and enterprising citizens of Lincoln Township, and during his residence here has
won the respect and confidence of all who come in contact with him. He has
filled most of the offices of trust and responsibility in his township, serving
in all with satisfaction to his constituents. In politics he affiliates with the
Republican party. Both he and his wife are members of the Baptist church.

I probably have more info on John McNally of Palo Alto Co mentioned above. I
think the son of John McNally of Palo Alto Co, IA (Richard McNally) married the
sister of my gg grandfather, Sarah McNally (different McNallys also of Mayo)

Descendants of John J McNally (possibly John McNally mentioned in bio above)

1 John J McNally b: 12/16/1841 in Ireland src: Palo Alto County Grave
Records of WPA d: 03/18/1925 in Ayrshire, Iowa src: Palo Alto County Grave
Records of WPA Burial: Calvary Cemetery/ Ayrshire, Iowa
. +Bridget Halloran b: 08/06/1850 in Ireland src: Palo Alto County Grave
Records of WPA m: 1871 in Cleveland, Ohio d: 08/15/1900 src: Palo Alto County
Grave Records of WPA Burial: Calvary Cemetery/ Ayrshire, Iowa
........... 2 Joseph J McNally b: 03/25/1873 in Ohio d: 06/05/1915 in
Silver Lake Township, Palo Alto County, Iowa Burial: 06/07/1915 Ayrshire
............... +Winnifred Bannon b: 1880 in Illinois m: 04/12/1898 in
Ruthven, Iowa
......................... 3 Marie McNally b: 04/22/1902
......................... 3 Mary Irene McNally b: 04/26/1903
........... 2 William McNally b: Abt. 1875 src: 1895 Iowa Census-Silver Lake
Township
........... 2 Richard Patrick McNally b: Abt. 1878 in Cedar Falls, Iowa src:
1895 Iowa Census-Silver Lake Township d: 04/18/1951 src1: St. John's Cemetery
Records, src2: Assumption Death Records, Palo Alto Co, IA 1927-1948 Burial:
04/21/1951 St. John's Cemetery/Palo Alto County, Iowa Source: Assumption Death
Records, Palo Alto Co, IA 1927-1948
............... +Sarah Ellen McNally aka: Sadie b: 08/28/1883 in
Emmetsburg,Iowa src: Pension Papers of Myles McNally m: 09/14/1909 in
Emmetsburg,Iowa src: Marriage Records, Book 7, 1909-1915 d: 1955 src: St.
John's Cemetery Records
......................... 3 Richard McNally b: Abt. 09/1910 in Ayrshire, Iowa
......................... 3 Joseph Luke McNally b: 08/19/1915 src: Palo Alto
Co. Birth Records-Book 2
............................ +Virginia
...................................... 4 Ellen McNally
...................................... 4 Judy McNally
......................... 3 Rose Geraldine McNally b: 08/19/1915 src: Palo
Alto Co. Birth Records-Book 2
............................ +Ernie Frerichs
......................... 3 Maurice Edward McNally b: 05/02/1919 in
Curlew,Iowa src: Palo Alto Co. Birth Records-Book 4
........... 2 Dorothy McNally aka: Doll b: 1884 in Cedar Falls, Blackhawk Co,
Iowa src1: 1895 Iowa Census-Silver Lake Township, src2: Sacred Heart Church,
Ayrshire, Iowa, 1888-1988
............... +Jack Degnan b: 1874 in Dike, Iowa src: Sacred Heart Church,
Ayrshire, Iowa, 1888-1988 m: 1912
......................... 3 William Degnan

Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm
Palo Alto Co, IA USGenWeb Project
http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/index.htm
Researching Descendants of Myles McNally
http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/descendants_of_myles_mcnally.htm


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