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Note: Mike Cady had marriage date as Nov 28, 1882, we had Nov 22, 1882 ?
He is buried in Coudersport, PA in Eulalia Cemetery
His birth date is also given variously as May 5, 1854 or May 15, 1854 in family records.
The Eulalia Cemetery Company records in Coudersport show it as May 15, 1854, and death as January 4, 1950.
Mike Cady also shows his date of death as Jan 4, 1950.
After his parents were married and had their first child, John, in Smyrna, Delaware, Matilda and possibly baby John went back to Ireland where Matilda took care of some business arrangements and cared for her husband's father John. While there, son Daniel was born and Matilda and Daniel (age 5) (and young John ?) returned to the USA in 1857. That's why Daniel was born in Ireland while the rest of the children were born in Delaware and Pennsylvania and NY.
(The 1920 census shows Daniel's immigration as 1860 and naturalization in 1865. He would have been only 11 when he was naturalized, I'm not sure that was possible. His father was naturalized in 1858 (we have a copy of the certificate), so perhaps Matilda was naturalized in 1865 and thus her child would have automatically become a citizen too ?? but would they not all have automatically become citizens in 1858 with the naturalization of the father ??) Matilda's date of immigration in the 1900 census is shown as 1857.
That would have been the second time Matilda came to the USA,
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(The following info is from a newspaper article that appeared following his death - probably from the Coudersport local paper - [is that the Potter County Journal ??] - note that there are several misspellings and inaccuracies as is usual with such articles.)-rkm
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Dan McConeghy
Dies At Advanced
Age of 95 Years
Aged Man was C.&P.A. Conductor
For More Than Forty Years --
Known to Large Number of People
Over Potter County
One of the oldest residents of Potter County, Daniel McConeghy of Coudersport, passed away early yesterday morning (Jan. 4, 1950) The aged man had been remarkably active until about three years ago. During that period he had failed slowly until the end of his long life.
Mr. McConeghy was born in Ballymacfin Parish, Derrykeighan, [note: this is wrong, Ballymacfin is a townland name and was in Billy parish, but possibly attached to Derrykeighan in some way as well, there were several sorts of subdivisions both civil and religious - rkm] County Antrim, Ireland, May 15, 1854. He was a son of Daniel and Mathilda Morrow McConeghy. He came to this country while young and lived at Larrabee before coming to Coudersport as an employee of the C.&P.A. Railroad. He was a passenger conductor on that road for 43 years.
He married Ellen Keating, Nov. 28, 1882 at Clermont. She died years ago. Surviving are six children: Mrs. Mathilda Bray, Seattle, Wash.; Daniel McConeghy, Norwalk, Ohio, Dr. John K. McConeghy, California, Miss Mary McConeghy, Mrs. Frances Philo and Miss Eleanor McConeghy, Coudersport. One sister, Mrs. Mathilda Reedy [Reidy - rkm], Coudersport, also survives.
He married Mrs. Laura [Larrabee] Marsh as his second wife, who preceded him in death several years ago.
Mr. McConeghy was a member of the Presbyterian Church, of Eulalia Lodge, F. & A.M. and Coudersport Consistory.
Funeral service will be held from the Schutt Funeral Home at 2:00 o'clock, Friday afternoon, with Dr. Chester Todd officiating. Interment will be in Eulalia Cemetery.
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Note: Our first real evidence that this Daniel was named Daniel Cushing McConeghy is the draft registration document of his son (b. 1888) who was registered and who signed his name as Daniel C. McConeghy, Jr. We do not have any evidence that this Daniel (b1854) ever went by the name Daniel Jr. or Daniel, II and both the naturaliztion document and the real-estate house sale document we have for his father refer to him simply as Daniel McConeghy (or McConaghy).
However nomenclature such as "Jr. or "II" or "III" was not commonly used in the 19th century and earlier to differentiate members of different generations. Probably because it was so common for the same names to be used over and over in each generation, and also because people did not usually need to use such extra identification details since what sparse records that were kept were merely local.
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1860 US Census - Delaware, Kent County, Smyrna Landing - Duck Creek Hundred (Post Office : Smyrna) enumerated July 9 1860. Page numbered #116 (labelled # 602) dwelling #742 family # 737. image #117 of 143
Daniel McConaughy (sic), age 46, occupation: trader, born in Ireland, value of real estate $2000, value of personal property $100
Matilda, age 36, born in Ireland
John K., age 7, born in Delaware, attended school
Daniel, age 6, born in Delaware (sic), attended school
[Note: Daniel should have been 47 not 46 if born in Nov 1812
Matilda should have been 37 if born in June 1823
the birth in Delaware for young Daniel could simply have been an assumption by the enumerator
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1870 US Census, Franklin, Delaware County, New York, page #50 (174-B) & #51 (175-A), dwelling #388, family #437,
ancestry.com image #50&51 of 85, enumerated July 26, 1870.
Dan'l McConaghy, (head) age 57, occ: laborer R.R., born in Ireland, parents of foreign birth, not a citizen of US
Matilda, (wife), age 49, occ: keeping house, born in Ireland, parents of foreign birth,
John, (son), age 18, occ: laborer R.R., born in Delaware, parents of foreign birth,
Dan'l, (son), age 16, occ: laborer R.R. born in Ireland, parents of foreign birth,
Mary J., (daughter), age 9, at home, born in Pennsylvania, parents of foreign birth, attended school,
James, (son), age 7, at home, born in Pennsylvania, parents of foreign birth, attended school
Fanny, (daughter) age 6, at home, born in Pennsylvania, parents of foreign birth
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Matilda, (daughter), age 4, at home, born in Pennsylvania, parents of foreign birth
Robert, (son), age 10/12, at home, born in August in New York, parents of foreign birth
(also living with them were 3 other non-relations, probably boarders, 3 different surnames but names are difficult to read,
1 RR Laborer age 60, 1 RR laborer age 45, 1 female age 31 keeping house, all were born in Ireland,
the oldest man and the woman could not read or write.)
On the first page the McConeghy surname is difficult to read, it looks like McConagr/v or McConager or McConafer, on the second page it is looks more like McConethy. It is misindexed as Mc conager(Unknown) or Mc conaghr (Unknown) in ancestry.com's index
on genealogy.com it is indexed as McConafer.
wife Matilda's age appears to be listed as 49 but she should have been 47 so it is possibly just sloppy writing.
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1880 US Census Larrabee Village, Eldred Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, ED #87, Dwelling #558, family # 580, page #58,
sheet 274-B, enumerated July 16, 1880, ancestry.com image # 58 of 67.
Matilda McConeghey (sic), head, widow, age 58, occ: keeping house, born in Ireland, parents born in Ireland
John K. , son, age 27, single, occ: RR Brakeman, born in Delaware, parents born in Ireland
Daniel R.(sic), son, age 25, single, occ: RR Express Manager, born in Ireland, parents born in Ireland
Mary, daughter, age 19, single, occ: housekeeper, born in Delaware, parents born in Ireland
James, son, age 18, single, occ: laborer, born in Delaware, parents born in Ireland
Fannie, daughter, age 16, single, at home, attended school within the year, born in PA, parents born in Ireland
Matilda, daughter, age 13, single, at school, born in PA, parents born in Ireland
(note: age discrepancy on widow Matilda's age again. If she had been 36 in July 1860 (census) she should have been 56 in July 1880 (census) the birthdate we have for her would have made her 37 in 1860 and 57 in 1880 not 58.)
Census ages are sometimes confusing - the 1880 census instructions say to enter the age at last birthday prior to June 1 1880. The census year officially ended May 31, so they wanted the age of people within the census year, but in this case they were enumerating
90 days later than that so who knows what they were actually recording) Other than the mother, the ages are all about as expected plus or minus one year.
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1890 Census lost - Daniel and Ellen were living in Coudersport PA then, Daniel would have been about 36
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1900 Census, Coudersport Borough, Second Ward, Eulalia Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania, ED #105, page #9,
dwelling #182, family #187, genealogy.com image #50 of 91, enumerated June 6, 1900.
Dan McConneghy(sic), head, age 46, born May 1854 in Ireland, both parents born in Ireland, married 18 years,
immigrated 1851, in US for 49 years, naturalized citizen, occ: Passenger Conductor - RR, orned his house free of mortgage
Elenar(sic), wife, age 43, born Nov 1856 in Canada (Eng.), both parents born in Ireland, married 18 years, had 8 children, 7 living
Robert, son, age 16, born Nov 1883 in PA, at school
Mary, daughter, age 15, born Nov 1884 in PA, at school
Tillie, daughter, age 14, born April 1886 in PA, at school
Fannie, daughter, age 9, born June 1890 in PA, at school
Dan, son, age 11, born July 1889* in PA, at school
John, son, age 7, born June 1892 in PA, at school
Elenar(sic), daughter, age 6, born Sept 1893 in PA, at school
Note : This is a clue that Ellen Keating's name may actually have been Eleanor Keating rather than Ellen, both she and her daughter are recorded here in the misspelling "Elenar or Elenor" although she is not listed that way anywhere later that we have found.
Dan Jr was listed out of order he should have come before Fannie.
*Dan's birthyear is shown as 1889 and his age as 11, but he was born in July so he wouln't have been 11 for another month, but we have his birthyear from other sources as 1888 so 11 would have been correct.
Matilde was called Tillie for short just as Frances was called Fannie, and both Daniels are recorded as Dan. This enumerator obviously did not insist on formality when it came to names :-)
The child who was not living was Eleanor's twin, James who had died at 5 months
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1910 US Census, ED #111, Ward 2, Coudersport, Eulalia Township, Potter County, Pennsylvania, dwelling #, family # , sheet 10-A, image 19 of 34, enumerated April 25, 1910.
address : 107 Erie (?) Street
Daniel McConeghy, head, age 53, married for 27 years, born in Ireland-Irish, parents born in Ireland-Irish, occ: Conductor on Railroad, owned his home
Ellen, wife, age 52, married for 27 years, had 8 children, 7 living, born in Kansas, parents born in Ireland, occ: none
Mary, daughter, age 25, born in PA, father born in Ireland, mother born in Kansas, occ: none
John, son, age 17, born in PA, father born in Ireland, mother born in Kansas, occ: none
Ellenor(sic), daughter, age 16, father born in Ireland, mother born in Kansas, occ: none
Matilda, mother, age 86, widow, had 7 children, 6 living, born in Ireland-Irish, occ: none
Note: Daniel shoulkd have been about 56 in 1910 not 53 ??
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1920 US Census, Coudersport, ward 1, Potter County, PA, visit # 120.
Daniel McConeghy, 65, born in Ireland, both parents shown as born in Scotland. Emigrated 1860, naturalized 1865,
occupation : conductor.
Laura, wife, 57, born in PA, both parents born in NY.
[Note: as far as we know both Daniel's parents were born in Northern Ireland as well.
It is possible that the enumerator was told they were Scots-Irish.]
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According to an article in the Coudersport Enterprise that was printed sometime in 1925 or 1926,
Daniel McConeghy (there named Daniel E. McConeghy) resigned his position as RR conductor and sold the family home to the Presbyterian Church to be used as the Presbyterian Manse (rectory ?) and moved to Jacksonville Florida where he had other employment.
His wife accompanied him as far as Washington (this was probably Washington NJ not DC the article did not specify) where she was visiting and that she planned to return for the summer to Coudersport before going to Florida.
They apparently did not remain in Florida, but apparently moved to New Jersey where we find them apparently poultry farming in 1930.
(daughter Frances' husband Mr Philo was an expert in poultry farming)
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1920 US Census, Washington Township, Burlington County, New Jersey, ED #74, enumerated May 23 1930, dwelling # 68, family # 68,
page # 3-A, sheet stamped #230, image #5 of 10.
(no addresses given)
Daniel McConeghy, head, age 75, born in Ireland (North), parents born in Ireland (North), occ: farmer - Poutery(sic) [i.e.Poultry],
owned his home, value $2000, first married at age 27 [note: that was to his first wife]
They owned a radio set and lived on a farm. Immigrated in 1860
Laura R. McConeghy, wife, age 68, born in PA, parents born in NY, occ: none, first married at age 23 [note: to her first husband]
[Note: the occupation of the next listed head of family (mail carrier) was erroneously
written next to her name by the enumerator but arrows were inserted to indicate the correct placement]
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Letters from Elsie Mae Walker McConeghy, wife of Daniel's son Robert K. McConeghy, written to her youngest son Robert K. Jr while he was attending The Peddie School about 1933 indicate that due to Daniel's declining health, Daniel and Laura moved back to Coudersport to live with Robert K. and Elsie (in the bedroom that had previously belonged to Robert K. Jr's older brother Jim (Daniel James) . Elsie died 3 years later in 1936 while her son was attending Dartmouth College. Laura died in 1942 in New Jersey about 9 years later so it is possible that Daniel and Laura had returned to live in NJ at some point. Daniel's son, Robert K. Sr. ,died in 1944 but Daniel lived on until 1950 when he died in Coudersport. I do not know who he was living with at that time. Possibly with his daughter Frances (Philo) whose husband had died in 1937, (I believe that prior to that the Philos had lived in Florida.), or with daughter Eleanor.
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