Dennis McFadden resident of Coal Center, Washington County Pennsylvania
Names and residence of his parents are:residents of the state of Ohio
He is twenty seven years of age
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Neuland
Names and residence of her parents are:Luis Neuland and Hanna Neuland residence Coal Center
She is twenty years of age
Sworn on 15th of February 1886
A couple of interesting things from this document.
Most other records indicate that Dennis was about 19 years older than Lizzie. Family stories suggests that he lied about his age in order to emigrate from Ireland, then lied again to serve in the Civil War. He is said to have been about 13 when he signed up in Ohio and gave his age as 18.
The second is the reference to his parents being residents of the State of Ohio. Again according to family stories, his father died in Ireland during the potato famine while Dennis was a child. When his mother remarried, the step father refused to support the McFadden children forcing Dennis and possibly his brother John to immigrate to the US between 1848-1850.
It seems with Dennis, the more information I find about him, the cloudier his life becomes.
Just stopped by. Like the name of your blog. I scheduled a blog for "Workday Wednesday" at 7:00 A.M. but it did not get in. What am I doing wrong? I put it in about 7:00 P M on Tuesday night. Do I need to schedule it even earlier for Thomas to tag it. Just don't know.
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Hello Grant, thanks for stopping by. The only thing you need to do is put "Workday Wednesday" or whichever prompt in the title of the post, like I did above and it automatically shows up. Mine appeared withing a minute or two.
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