Article from the Davenport Democrat, Davenport, Scott, Iowa; July 13, 1871: Probable Suicide of Michael McNerney

from Eileen Steele Branch of Malloy Family Davenport Democrat Davenport, Scott, Iowa July 13, 1871 Probable Suicide Just before dark last evening, the dead body of Michael McNerney, a man well known in this city for many years, was found floating in the Mississippi at the lower end of Rock Island. He was known to …

Letter from Grandma O’Neil to Uncle Charles – December 1941

Following is an email from Detroit Cousin John sent on 3/26/09: hi everyone,  When Dad passed away i took a little brown notebook with  "Private keep out" written on a piece of masking tape.  and so i did until now.  This book is Grandmother O'Neil's diary that she kept while Dad was overseas.  This is …

Mark and Valerie cake cutting – 2/4/2008

We had a get-together on Feb. 4, 2008, at Jeanne’s apartment on Belmont. All the siblings were there. And Mark announced tht he and Valerie had gotten married a couple of weeks prior by a Justice of the Peace. Someone (Chris or Penny?) bought a cake and Mark and Valerie did the standard photos of …

JJ and Facebook

This email came from Dan on 2/7/2008: Someone started a Facebook group called "Bob Dylan is overrated":http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2217448244 In the founding statement of the group, they link to the JJ Letter tothe Editor titled, "Dylan way overrated", in which our fatherlambastes those who love the seminal song writer:http://juggernautco.typepad.com/jack_oneil_sewickley/2005/01/dylan_way_overr.html God bless the internet. * Sick of hearing …

Genealogical info on Charles and Irene Malloy

Cousin Betsy Qualters pulled together this info on Charles and Irene Malloy, Jeanne’s parents:                 More About IRENE ROSALIE MCNERNEY:                 Date born 2: June 06, 1888, DuBois, Clearfield, PA                 Burial: Calvary Cem.  …

Malloy info from cousin Betsy Qualters

Below is the copy of an email letter that Betsy Qualters — Aunt Betty’s youngest — sent to Jeanne in the summer of 2003. She has been doing research on the Malloy side of the family. She provided these two family trees. Dear Aunt Jeanne, I have been trying to get more information on the …

“Let’s be nice to newborn Michael”

It was 1961 and we were living on Wilkins Avenue in Pittsburgh’s Point Breeze. Jeanne was pregnant with Michael. Of course, she already had four kids ages 8, 6, 5 and 3. And she had already had a miscarriage in 1959. Obviously she wanted to get through this pregancy with no problems. And maybe she …