John Sheehy came to Bracken County, Kentucky working with his father John, for the Covington and Ohio Railroad, laying track and building tunnels through the western Virginia mountains, moving periodically along with his mother Margaret and his new wife Ellen. Their only child, Thomas, was born in Virginia near Clifton Forge. When the Civil War stopped work on the railroad, they all continued west on the Ohio River and settled in the Chatham area of Bracken County. He bought some land and was a successful farmer there until the day in June of 1887 when he fell off the steamboat THOMAS SHERLOCK and drowned in the Ohio River.
John took a weekend excursion on the side-wheel steamer SHERLOCK from Augusta to Cincinnati. On the ship’s Sunday return to Augusta, as she was rounding into the landing, a man was seen to fall over the rail. That man it turns out was John Sheehy. His body was found in the Ohio River near Cincinnati on the following Friday.
He was buried in neighboring Mason County, in St. Patrick Cemetery, Maysville.
John's son Thomas, married Eliza SHERLOCK a year before in 1886, no relation to the Cincinnati lawyer the steamboat was named for.
(bio by: Census taker)
John took a weekend excursion on the side-wheel steamer SHERLOCK from Augusta to Cincinnati. On the ship’s Sunday return to Augusta, as she was rounding into the landing, a man was seen to fall over the rail. That man it turns out was John Sheehy. His body was found in the Ohio River near Cincinnati on the following Friday.
He was buried in neighboring Mason County, in St. Patrick Cemetery, Maysville.
John's son Thomas, married Eliza SHERLOCK a year before in 1886, no relation to the Cincinnati lawyer the steamboat was named for.
(bio by: Census taker)
John Sheehy came to Bracken County, Kentucky working with his father John, for the Covington and Ohio Railroad, laying track and building tunnels through the western Virginia mountains, moving periodically along with his mother Margaret and his new wife Ellen. Their only child, Thomas, was born in Virginia near Clifton Forge. When the Civil War stopped work on the railroad, they all continued west on the Ohio River and settled in the Chatham area of Bracken County. He bought some land and was a successful farmer there until the day in June of 1887 when he fell off the steamboat THOMAS SHERLOCK and drowned in the Ohio River.
John took a weekend excursion on the side-wheel steamer SHERLOCK from Augusta to Cincinnati. On the ship’s Sunday return to Augusta, as she was rounding into the landing, a man was seen to fall over the rail. That man it turns out was John Sheehy. His body was found in the Ohio River near Cincinnati on the following Friday.
He was buried in neighboring Mason County, in St. Patrick Cemetery, Maysville.
John's son Thomas, married Eliza SHERLOCK a year before in 1886, no relation to the Cincinnati lawyer the steamboat was named for.
(bio by: Census taker)
John took a weekend excursion on the side-wheel steamer SHERLOCK from Augusta to Cincinnati. On the ship’s Sunday return to Augusta, as she was rounding into the landing, a man was seen to fall over the rail. That man it turns out was John Sheehy. His body was found in the Ohio River near Cincinnati on the following Friday.
He was buried in neighboring Mason County, in St. Patrick Cemetery, Maysville.
John's son Thomas, married Eliza SHERLOCK a year before in 1886, no relation to the Cincinnati lawyer the steamboat was named for.
(bio by: Census taker)
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