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Owen McElmeel

Owen McElmeel was born in County Monaghan, Ireland in 1805.  He immigrated to the United States in 1832 (approx) and we believe he married then or shortly after in New York City to Rosanna Connelly who was in America but born in County Down, Ireland.  He and Rosanna settled in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where their first eight of their children were born (and some buried there as well).  Owen worked in the steel mills for twenty years before the family moved to Delaware Township, Delaware County, Iowa.  They bought two farms (Owen signing the deeds with an X) and lived out the rest of  their lives in Iowa.
Statistics:
Owen McElmeel
Born: April 20, 1805 County Monaghan, Ireland
Married: Rosanna Connelly    approx 1832 New York City ?
Died: : December 16. 1880  Buried St. John's Catholic Cemetery, Delhi,
Delaware Township, Delaware County, Iowa
Children:
 
Peter
 Born
February 20, 1837 Pennsylvania

Death: Unknown
Peter is buried in Fort Wayne, Oklahoma.  In 1900, documentation indicates he was living in Muskogee I.T. (Indian Territory - later Oklahoma).  Date of death is unknown.

James  F.
 Born
November 21, 1838
Pennsylvania


Death:
April 29, 1921
Burial: St. John's Cemetery, Delhi, Iowa (Delaware County)
Married Katherine Devine (b. 1836 d. May 31, 1906) on April 26, 1862 at the Catholic Church in Dyersville, Iowa by Father Kuertenkamp.
Children included:
Mary E.
Anna Roseanna
Celia Loretta,
Genevieve
Alice R
Ambrose Francis
Owen Peter
John Edwin "Ed"
James A.

NOTE: Katherine Devine was the daughter of John Devine (1806-1867).  Her brother Patrick Devine (1844-1923) was married to Catherine Mulvehill.

John Peter
 Born:
November 7, 1841 Pennsylvania


Death: October 27, 1908 Hopkinton, Iowa
Buried in St. Mary's Cemetery, Manchester, Iowa
Married Mary Elizabeth Lux (1848-1895) on January 17, 1870 at the Catholic Church in Dyersville, Iowa by Father Kuertenkamp. (Marriage witnesses were Stephen mcElmeel and James Cavanaugh)
Children included:
Helen K.
Stephen E.
Margaret
Eugene
John
James M.
Martin John
Roseanna
Gerald Francis

Martin
 Born:
August 3, 1844 Pennsylvania

Death:  Age 2 years; October 27, 1846
Buried in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania


Stephen
 November 28, 1846 Pennsylvania

Death December 28, 1912 
Buried in Burley, Idaho
Stephen was born a month and one day after his brother Martin died. 
Documents (obituaries of other family members etc.) indicate that Stephen was residing in Silver city, Idaho from approximately 1880 to at least 1908 and perhaps beyond that  date.  Burley and Silver City are 187 miles apart so it appears that at some point (after 1908) he did move to Burley (further East) where he is buried.

Margaret
 Born
November 2, 1849
Pennsylvania

Death
June 1856  age 6 years  7 months


Mary E
 Born
February 10, 1852
Pennsylvania

Death
May 10, 1853 at age 15 months; buried in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania


Joseph
 Born
May 23, 1854
Pennsylvania

Death
December 21, 1931; Buried Omaha, Nebraska
Married Mary Noonan

Children
Anna
Raymond (lived in California)
Joseph
Willie

Owen Eugene
 Born August 10, 1857 Iowa

Death
November 7, 1930
Buried St. John's Cemetery, Delhi, Delaware County, Iowa
Married Margaret Kelley (1869-1944)

Children:
Leo R.
Mary Alice
Peter E.
Katherine "Kate"
Michael Vincent
Nora Genevieve
Joseph Francis
Anna

Katherine
 Born
December 17, 1859 Delaware County, Iowa

Death
1945 Meade, Kansas
Married Bernard Sebastian McMeel (b. March 31, 1856-1920)

Children:
  • Charles (b. July 23, 1881 d. July 24, 1887)
  • Leo Patrick (b. September 15, 1884 d. August 20, 1955)
  • Genevieve  (b. December 21, 1885 d. June 9, 1973)
  • Mona Rose  (b. February 16, 1890 d. April 20, 1978)
  • Bernard E.  (b.May 24, 1892 d. July 18, 1918 World War I)
  • James Eugene  ((n.d.))
  • Anna Elizabeth  (b.June 13, 1895 d. April 17, 1978)
  • Honora "Nora" Gormley  (b. August 10, 1899 d. December 1977)

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