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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Michael Lamey of Tipperary
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:14:56 -0500


Surnames: Lamey, Cook, Keller, Banghart

The History of Jackson County, Iowa...Chicago: Western Hist. Co., 1879.

Michael Lamey, farmer, Section 31; P.O. Monmouth; wife owns 200 acres of
land, valued at $25 per acres; he is the son of Michael and Bridget Lamey;
born in Co. Tipperary, Ireland in 1830; at the age of 15 he emigrated with
his parents to Monroe county, New York, where they remained but a short
time, when they came to Shullsburg, Wisconsin and followed railroading on
the I.C.C.R. and on other roads in LaSalle County. In 1856 he came to
Monmouth in this county and engaged in the old Lyons and Anamosa railway
with his 3 brothers. In the Spring of 1857, went to Dubuque, his father
dying shortly after. In the fall of 1857 returned to Monmouth Township, but
continuing railroading at intervals up to December 15, 1864 when he married
Mrs. Allen Keller, daughter of H.V. Cook, of Sharon Township, Clinton
county, Iowa; she was born December 20, 1835 in Erie county, Penn.; she had
3 children by first marriage- Sarah, now wife of Henry Banghart, of
Monmouth; Ida M. Carrie S.; by this marriage 7- John, William, Mary, Martha,
Maggie, Joan and Charles. Mrs. Lamey is a member of the M.E. church; Mr.
Lamey is a member of the Catholic church, Democrat.


Cathy Joynt Labath
The Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm


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