CRONIN, Lawrence Anthony Sr.^[1]

1900 - 1985  (84 years)

• Name	CRONIN, Lawrence Anthony  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Suffix	Sr.
  Born	11 Dec 1900	Buffalo, Erie Co., New York   [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 May 1985	New York   [8]
  Buried	Lackawanna, Erie Co., New York
  Person ID	I614	Reich
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2017

  
  

  Father	CRONIN, Richard,   b. 30 Jan 1872, Meenskehy, Cullen, County Cork, Ireland ,   d. 31 Jan 1932, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	LOUGHLIN, Julia Loretta,   b. 24 Jun 1871, Knockduff, Cullen, County Cork, Ireland ,   d. 24 Jun 1946, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York  (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F7	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	SHEEHAN, Mary Agnes,   b. 5 Aug 1905, New York ,   d. 28 Feb 1989, New York  (Age 83 years)
  Married	27 Jan 1926	Our Lady of Victory Basilica in Lackawanna, Erie Co., New York   [6, 7]
  Children	1. CRONIN, Julia Catherine,   b. 30 May 1927, New York ,   d. 13 Oct 2016  (Age 89 years)   2. CRONIN, Lawrence Anthony Jr.,   b. 15 Jun 1929, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York   3. CRONIN, Joan Marie,   b. 12 Oct 1931, New York   4. CRONIN, Mary Kathleen (Kay),   b. 10 Aug 1932, New York ,   d. 15 Jun 1989, New York  (Age 56 years)   5. CRONIN, Patricia Noreen,   b. 10 May 1933, New York   6. CRONIN, James Vincent Sr.,   b. 1 Sep 1935, Buffalo, Erie Co., New York ,   d. 28 Jan 2014  (Age 78 years)   7. CRONIN, Theresa Cecilia,   b. 5 Jul 1939, New York ,   d. Mar 1940  (Age 0 years)   8. Living   9. Living
  Last Modified	3 Dec 2017
  Family ID	F3	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Larry attended South Park High School, and was in many dramatic plays held there. Larry played one of the three wise men in the annual Christmas pageant. He was also a good speaker, being an MC for various performances. He was very religious. Larry and Mary were married by Father Baker at Our Lady of Victory Basilica, in his rooms beneath the church. Larry was a police motorcycle detective for Buffalo, and in the later years a patrolman who walked the beat around South Park Avenue, the neighborhood in which he grew up. They lived on Verona Street, in a four-family building. Upon Larry's death in May, 1985, the Buffalo News printed a large obituary. During his years as a detective in the 1920s and 30s, Larry had guarded many dignitaries who visited Buffalo. Mary Agnes Sheehan, born 5 August, 1905, was an only child, and lost her mother in the 1913/1914 Flu Epidemic or in 1919 due to Black Plague. Joan Cuthbert, Mary's daughter, relates that it was thought that Mary's mother was actually buried alive. He coffin had been reopened, and it appeared the mother had struggled to get out. Mary Agnes was a very jolly person, who helped make many parties lots of fun. She died 1 February, 1989. Both Larry and Mary are buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Lackawanna. Mary Agnes' maternal grandparents, John Morrisey and Bridget Houlihan, were both born in County Kerry, Ireland. John ran off to Australia, and left Bridget running a boarding house in Dunkirk.

  
  

• Sources

  [S330] Census US 1930, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T626, roll 1422, Buffalo, Erie, New York, enumeration district (ED) 10, sheet 7B, p. 363 (Reliability: 3). [S326] Census US 1910, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T624, roll 940, Buffalo Ward 1, enumeration district (ED) 9, sheet 4, p. 3150, dwelling 276 South Street (Reliability: 3). [S327] Census NY 1915, (Digital images. n.d.), Buffalo Ward 01, Assembly District 04, Election District 04, p. 31, dwelling 803; (Reliability: 3). [S329] Census US 1920, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T625, roll 1100, Buffalo Ward 4, Erie, New York, enumeration district (ED) 39, sheet 4A, p. 4751, dwelling 75 (Reliability: 3). [S332] Census NY 1925, (Digital images. n.d.), Election District 04, Assembly District 04, Buffalo Ward 04, Erie, p. 547; (Reliability: 3). [S330] Census US 1930, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T626, roll 1422, Buffalo, Erie, New York, enumeration district (ED) 10, sheet 5A, p. 456 (Reliability: 3). [S331] Census US 1940, (National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), T627, roll 2834, Buffalo, Erie, New York, enumeration district (ED) 64-363, sheet 3A, p. 4824 (Reliability: 3). [S334] U.S. Social Security, Social Security Administration, (Genealogy Bank ?(www.genealogybank.com)), entry for Lawrence Cronin, 1985 (Reliability: 3).