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 Abt 1900 - Yes, date unknown
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| Name |
DENNING, Margaret Bernice |
| Born |
Abt 1900 |
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Female |
| Died |
Yes, date unknown |
| Person ID |
I3966 |
Reich |
| Last Modified |
2 Apr 2012 |
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- MOM?S ?HISTORY? written about 1977 for daughter Catherine
Rising Sun, Wisconsin is a tiny place in the road near LaCrosse and Viroqua. Years ago, it was mostly Irish farmers, mostly directly from Ireland. They came down the Ohio and up the Mississippi Rivers. As Rising Sun grew, they all intermarried and so many were related. The parish church [St. James] was there and now the big cemetery.
Wisconsin is such a beautiful state of hills and valleys and trees. The valleys (local) were ?Sugar Creek?, ?Copper Creek?, ?Buck Creek?, (among others). The long hills were called ridges. One near Rising Sun was called Boma Ridge but was dubbed Finley Ridge because of so many Finleys.
My parents (John Henry Denning and Bridget Catherine Finley) and [my paternal grandmother?s family {cgf}] the O?Leary?s were among those who all grew up there. My Dad (John Henry) was related to the McCarten?s, McGraws, Rogers, Shannons, Mahan?s (his mother?s family), O?Neill?s ? a lot of older cousins who went to Dakota Territory to homestead. They?d come back to Wisconsin in the winters. In 1886 they took (John Henry) with them ? he was only 16. He?d been a half orphan since he was 9. He stayed on in Dakota (North and South Dakota became states in 1889) but went back to Wisconsin some winters too. He met my Mom (Bridget) and they were married in 1898 when my Dad was 28 and Mom was 24. She?d taught school in her home county around Rising Sun?.
Timothy and Johanna Finley were my mother?s parents. There were 13 children. Down the road a piece was another Finley family of 16 children. The mother of that family was Maria Denning, the aunt of my father, Henry Denning, and those 16 children were my father?s first cousins. Each of these two Finley families had a Jim Finley, and two Lynch girls, sisters, were married to them. Each husband was a Jim Finley! At the other direction was another Jim Finley. So, there was Tim?s Jim (my mother?s brother), Curley?s Jim (my Dad?s cousin), called Curley?s Jim because his father had curly hair! The third one was Yorker?s Jim because his father hailed from New York State! It was said that all three of them had the same great-grandfather in Ireland.
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