More progress on the Kilcommons Family

The other day I checked the archives of the Wilkes-Barre paper to see what I could find.

On March 7, 1895, the paper reported that "Michael Curley of Oliver's Mills was calling on Georgetown friends last evening."

On August 18, 1896, it reported that "A son arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Curley."

On January 1, 1897, it reported that "The Misses Kilcummins and Miss Mame Kane of New York are being entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Michael Curley of Spruce Street, Georgetown."

Reporting on Delia's funeral, the paper noted that the flowers were carried by Edward Leslie. He most likely was a relative, since the marriage of Mary Kilcommons, a minor, was consented to by a John Leslie. Or perhaps John Leslie was named guardian of the three Kilcommons children after the death of their mother.

Delia Curley's death

The Pennsylvania Death Index also includes an entry for a stillborn, unnamed Curley in Luzerne County on October 2, 1911, the date of Delia Curley's death. But curiously she is not listed.

Donnelly Family of Belleville, NJ

The Donnelly family of Belleville gets more and more interesting, especially the children of Peter Donnelly and Elizabeth Cole. I have known for a while that their son Hugh married a Methodist and converted. I have just discovered that their daughter Sarah (b. say 1846) married an Albert Bossoms/Bossims at Roseville Baptist Church. Their daughter Mary (b. 13 February 1836) married a John J. Mandenscheid in Bloomfield, but I do not yet know who performed the ceremony.

Death of Ellen and Margaret Curley

I have known for a while about the family tradition that says that Ellen and Margaret Curley, my father's sisters, died young of typhoid fever after eating tainted ice cream at a party. I found a while ago a 1911 reference to a "recent" epidemic of typhoid traced to a dairy that had not sanitized its milk buckets. I now have dates for the deaths of Ellen and Margaret. Ellen (Ella in the index) died on March 29, 1908, and Margaret on March 31. This fits the story that the family had just come home from burying one girl, only to find the other one dead.