The New Ireland Story must have happened many times as Irish immigrants flooded the United States. My own great grandfather, William Henry Beahan, left County Cork for Liverpool and somehow found his way into the woods not far from Watertown, New York at a place called Sterling Bush which later became Lewisburg. There he married Roseanna Pierce the eldest daughter of the large Pierce family who also had recently fled Ireland. Like the Keoughs who were recorded in the U.S. census as the Ques, William and Roseanna Beahan were once recorded as the Bohans.
An old Lewis County map containing Lewisburg shows the Beahans and Pierces owning homes and small farms laid out a lot like New Ireland. Up there the industry was logging and iron mining. Some of the family was in the business of burning wood into charcoal to fuel primitive blast furnaces. I've visited Lewisburg. A ruined stone blast furnace still stands there. Credits to Larry Beahan great grandson. Thanks to Antwerp History Buff
The New Ireland Story must have happened many times as Irish immigrants flooded the United States. My own great grandfather, William Henry Beahan, left County Cork for Liverpool and somehow found his way into the woods not far from Watertown, New York at a place called Sterling Bush which later became Lewisburg. There he married Roseanna Pierce the eldest daughter of the large Pierce family who also had recently fled Ireland. Like the Keoughs who were recorded in the U.S. census as the Ques, William and Roseanna Beahan were once recorded as the Bohans.
An old Lewis County map containing Lewisburg shows the Beahans and Pierces owning homes and small farms laid out a lot like New Ireland. Up there the industry was logging and iron mining. Some of the family was in the business of burning wood into charcoal to fuel primitive blast furnaces. I've visited Lewisburg. A ruined stone blast furnace still stands there. Credits to Larry Beahan great grandson. Thanks to Antwerp History Buff
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