Dear
Judy,
First of all, with this new
information, I found this entry in the Cemeteries book on p. 177:
Ann O’Hearn
(1879-92 yrs) born in Newport, County Tipperary,
Ireland
I think this may be your
Elizabeth’s mother. My guess is that she is also the Ann Burkey in the 1860
Census even though the age is about four years off and the name is changed.
Since they didn’t give Ann’s year of birth in the entry, she could also be the
Ann Gleason mentioned on page 622. In this case they would have made a typo on
the year in the burial entry. 1869-1777=92 yrs. Like you, I can find no other references
to these persons by any combination of names, Ann
Burkey/Gleason/O’Hearn.
The history on p. 622 makes it
sound like Ann Gleason is a different person than Elizabeth’s mother. There are
other problems… The Ann Burkey in the census is 77 but 77 + 9 is only 86 yrs.
This time the census age is off 6
years. Census ages for these censuses are often wrong. For example, what if they
said she was born in 1777 and the census enumerator wrote 77 in the age
space?
I checked for marriages that
could have changed her name to Gleason or Burkey and found nothing in Illinois
that would even closely match.
Not that it’s important or
better, but I read the census from microfilm. That was the only format available
when I purchased them.
So, you are not much better off
than before. You now have a new name and date and the date is possibly in
question. This is a problem with working only with secondary information
sources. Unfortunately most if not all the primary sources no longer
exist.
The Catholics are well known for
keeping very good records. There is a chance that the early burial records still
exist for this cemetery but finding someone who has the patience to search for
them will be the challenge.
Sorry that I can only add to the
problem and not solve it.
Sincerely,
Ken
Huffman
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Message-----
From: Don and Judy
Scown [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 7:01
AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Brown County (1860 Census
Index)
Hi Ken and
Laurie,
Warm greetings to
you from a rain bogged area....we just got 1 whole foot of rain in about 4
days....Fortunately we have such sandy soil and it has drained well. The
sun has returned to bring us our 75-80 temp. for our mild Autumn season.
In the big red
Brown County Cemetery book....it mentions on page 622, that John Teefey and
Elizabeth O'Hern Teefey, and family came to Brown County from Ireland....with
her parents.....Ann Gleason. This was c1850.
When you kindly
looked up the Teefey entry on the 1860 Census, there was an Ann Burkey aged 77
living with them....which in theory you'd think would be Elizabeth's
mother.
I was wondering
if you actually view the Census to confirm this variance of
names....as well, if there is any mention of the relationship of this Ann Burkey
to John Teefey.
Unfortunately Ann
Gleason died before the 1870 Census.
Please just
reaffirm any details if you can whenever it is convenient for you to do
so.
All the
best,
Judy Gleeson
Scown