William L. Tiernan was born on 11 January 1860 in Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania to Thomas C. Tiernan and Margaret Marshall Lafferty Tiernan. His father died when he was only 2 years old, and his mother remarried when he was 6 years old. He had one sister, Margaretta, who was born in 1862, just a few months before their father died.
His mother and stepfather moved the family to Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota in the mid-1870s. By 1880, at 20 years of age, he was living in Anoka, Minnesota and working as a millwright. He married a young woman from Red Wing, Mary Louise Watkins, in January 1882, and by June 1894 had five children.
Tragically, he abandoned the family and his wife gave up her two youngest children to guardianship and then to adoption, and filed for a divorce and legal custody of the remaining three children, all of which was granted by the court in June 1899. By this time, however, he had taken up residence in St. Louis, Missouri, had remarried in August 1896, and had another daughter by his second wife, Anna Senzel. This daughter's name was Edna, and she was only two when her dad died.
The two children he had with Mary Louise who were adopted out became legally known as Alfred John Robertson (Find a Grave Memorial #190370413) (this connection has been proven with DNA matches between descendants) and Gerald Richard Patten (Find a Grave Memorial #8180283).
According to his death certificate William was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and died at his home: 2507 So. 2nd St., St. Louis, MO, he was married, was a millwright by occupation, and died of typho-malaria one week after becoming ill. It says he had been a resident of St. Louis, Missouri for 6 years. This death certificate has no informant listed. He was buried on 11 April 1900 .
NOTE: No known tombstone. Death records of St. Marcus United Church of Christ, St. Louis, MO, were translated & indexed by Robert Buecher. ]
His mother and stepfather moved the family to Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota in the mid-1870s. By 1880, at 20 years of age, he was living in Anoka, Minnesota and working as a millwright. He married a young woman from Red Wing, Mary Louise Watkins, in January 1882, and by June 1894 had five children.
Tragically, he abandoned the family and his wife gave up her two youngest children to guardianship and then to adoption, and filed for a divorce and legal custody of the remaining three children, all of which was granted by the court in June 1899. By this time, however, he had taken up residence in St. Louis, Missouri, had remarried in August 1896, and had another daughter by his second wife, Anna Senzel. This daughter's name was Edna, and she was only two when her dad died.
The two children he had with Mary Louise who were adopted out became legally known as Alfred John Robertson (Find a Grave Memorial #190370413) (this connection has been proven with DNA matches between descendants) and Gerald Richard Patten (Find a Grave Memorial #8180283).
According to his death certificate William was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and died at his home: 2507 So. 2nd St., St. Louis, MO, he was married, was a millwright by occupation, and died of typho-malaria one week after becoming ill. It says he had been a resident of St. Louis, Missouri for 6 years. This death certificate has no informant listed. He was buried on 11 April 1900 .
NOTE: No known tombstone. Death records of St. Marcus United Church of Christ, St. Louis, MO, were translated & indexed by Robert Buecher. ]
William L. Tiernan was born on 11 January 1860 in Brownsville, Fayette County, Pennsylvania to Thomas C. Tiernan and Margaret Marshall Lafferty Tiernan. His father died when he was only 2 years old, and his mother remarried when he was 6 years old. He had one sister, Margaretta, who was born in 1862, just a few months before their father died.
His mother and stepfather moved the family to Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota in the mid-1870s. By 1880, at 20 years of age, he was living in Anoka, Minnesota and working as a millwright. He married a young woman from Red Wing, Mary Louise Watkins, in January 1882, and by June 1894 had five children.
Tragically, he abandoned the family and his wife gave up her two youngest children to guardianship and then to adoption, and filed for a divorce and legal custody of the remaining three children, all of which was granted by the court in June 1899. By this time, however, he had taken up residence in St. Louis, Missouri, had remarried in August 1896, and had another daughter by his second wife, Anna Senzel. This daughter's name was Edna, and she was only two when her dad died.
The two children he had with Mary Louise who were adopted out became legally known as Alfred John Robertson (Find a Grave Memorial #190370413) (this connection has been proven with DNA matches between descendants) and Gerald Richard Patten (Find a Grave Memorial #8180283).
According to his death certificate William was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and died at his home: 2507 So. 2nd St., St. Louis, MO, he was married, was a millwright by occupation, and died of typho-malaria one week after becoming ill. It says he had been a resident of St. Louis, Missouri for 6 years. This death certificate has no informant listed. He was buried on 11 April 1900 .
NOTE: No known tombstone. Death records of St. Marcus United Church of Christ, St. Louis, MO, were translated & indexed by Robert Buecher. ]
His mother and stepfather moved the family to Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota in the mid-1870s. By 1880, at 20 years of age, he was living in Anoka, Minnesota and working as a millwright. He married a young woman from Red Wing, Mary Louise Watkins, in January 1882, and by June 1894 had five children.
Tragically, he abandoned the family and his wife gave up her two youngest children to guardianship and then to adoption, and filed for a divorce and legal custody of the remaining three children, all of which was granted by the court in June 1899. By this time, however, he had taken up residence in St. Louis, Missouri, had remarried in August 1896, and had another daughter by his second wife, Anna Senzel. This daughter's name was Edna, and she was only two when her dad died.
The two children he had with Mary Louise who were adopted out became legally known as Alfred John Robertson (Find a Grave Memorial #190370413) (this connection has been proven with DNA matches between descendants) and Gerald Richard Patten (Find a Grave Memorial #8180283).
According to his death certificate William was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and died at his home: 2507 So. 2nd St., St. Louis, MO, he was married, was a millwright by occupation, and died of typho-malaria one week after becoming ill. It says he had been a resident of St. Louis, Missouri for 6 years. This death certificate has no informant listed. He was buried on 11 April 1900 .
NOTE: No known tombstone. Death records of St. Marcus United Church of Christ, St. Louis, MO, were translated & indexed by Robert Buecher. ]
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