Re: Thomas Driscoll 1834-1903
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In reply to:
Thomas Driscoll 1834-1903
6/23/00
/tell Frank,
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I'm also looking for any info about the Thomas Driscoll Family, since Thomas, 1834-1903 was also My great grandfather.
The bit I know, and I hope you don't already have it all, is:
From his wedding certificate to Mary Murphy, a cousin born in Gillespie Illinois, they married 1859 in Alton Illinois.
Her mother was Mary Hand Murphey, related to Solomon Hand Levi Hand, and Levi Murphy. They had a farm in Jerseyville, also listed as Otterville, and Fieldon, and Greene county, Ilinois, as did the Driscolls.
The farm was sold to the Lavey family, Mert's wife's sons, from a previous marriage,at the death of Mert (Merwin Waldo) in the late 1980s.
the marriage certificate lists thomas' birthplace as Kentucky, but our family says he was a cooper and horseman from Ireland, who was a field chaplain in the Civil War.
There is some evidence that he was Elite Brotherhood, and worked as a horseman for the Alton Banker EP Ward, also Elite Brotherhood, and we have a picture of him in the uniform of the Illinois Militia. Supposedly taken in Quincy Illinois in the soldiers' home.
There is also a tie to Samuel Pine, a revolutionary war hero, since an Emailine Driscoll married into the line.
Halleck Henion was working there, at age 19, in the Hickory Missouri census.
Thomas and Mary had two sons, Halleck Henion, b. 1861, who moved to Oklahoma and then to Nebraska, and Cashis Marcellus Clay Driscoll, b. 1864 who stayed in Alton all his life, was a farmer, sheriff, and chauffeur, worked at the Glass Works,and a grist mill, and married Serelda Dunham of Jerseyville in 1898. Her family go back to the Massachussets Dunhams of the 1660s, and are related to Ann Dunham, the mother of President Obama.
Halleck's son Halleck Junior trained for Walt Disney and Roy Rogers.
Other children: Mylana, Ruby, Patrick Oliver, Lenore and another daughter.
I'd love to learn more about them.
Cashis had three sons: Melvin Leroy, 1899-1960, an artist working for the Glass works in Alton, Merwin, professional baseball player and also glassworks, and Thomas Hugh, journalist and college prof for journalism in california, 1921-2008.
I'm Tom's daughter Lin.
Since all of the above is bits and pieces of statistics, and family testimony, I'd love to hear from family who knows more, or can straighten out the confusion.
Thanks.