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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Bernard McNally
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:22:56 -0500

Not one of my McNallys, but interesting guy all the same...

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


Bernard M'Nally, farmer Section 6; P.O. Miles, born Co. Tyrone; he emigrated
to New Brunswick in 1841; he went to Boston in the following winter; he
enlisted in U.S. Services in 1842; he was attached to a company of
artillery, which was sent to the state of Maine; the company while there was
under the command of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnson; on the annexation of Texas
to the Union, he was ordered to Corpus Christi and to the Rio Grande in
1846; he served during the Mexican War; was at the battles of Palo Alto and
Resaca de la Palma; was also at the battle of Monterey, under Gen. Worth;
was discharged at the expiration of his term of service, July 15, 1847; he
remained however, with the army till the close of the war. He was then
employed to drive government teams from Monterey to California, engaged in
mining; in 1851 he returned from California; came to Jackson county and
purchased the farm which he now owns. He was married January 1, 1852, to
Laura Sutton, daughter of John Sutton, who was born in England in 1804, and
came to Jackson county in 1844 and settled where he now lives; Mr and Mrs
McNally have 6 children- George, Ellen, William, Edna, Frank and Lizzie. Mr.
McNally's farm contains 210 acres.


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

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