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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: [IA-IRISH] Bio of Pierce Cahill
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 08:54:41 -0500

Surnames: Cahill, Madden

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

Pierce Cahill, farmer, Sec. 32; P.O. LaMotte; born June 29, 1835, in
Ireland; in 1842, he came to Canada; in 1844, to Chautauqua Co, N.Y.; in
1848, to Jo Daviess Co, Ill.; in 1850 to Wisconsin; in 1870 he came to
Jackson Co.; he owns eighty acres of land. Married Mary Madden in 1870; she
was born in Ireland; had four children, three living-Elizabeth, Margaret,
Laura T., ; lost Mary in 1874, aged 13 months. Enlisted in 1861 in Co. F,
10th Wis. V.I.; was taken prisoner in September 1863, at the battle of
Chickamauga; released in 1865.

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

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