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James Hogan GG Grandson of Mary Ryan
Age 64 years
Spouse: Jeremiah
First written notice of Mary Hogan (maiden name Ryan) comes from the Minnesota State Census of 1857 noting her being part of a Hogan family including four boys; James, Jeremiah, John and Patrick. She is listed as being 60 years old. She shows up in the 1860 State Census in the same grouping; age 40. She does not show up in the 1870 Census, having passed away in 1867. When she died, there was no St Ann cemetery yet, so she was buried in St Mary cemetery near the city of Waseca. Her grave site was finally located by a Julrene Thornberg in 2011. Julrene as a volunteer for "FIND A GRAVE"; recorded all burials in this remote cemetery for all of us to eventually locate portions of our family. The stone next to her is her son Jeremiah (Jerry), one of the original four boys (listed in Childs History of Waseca County) who originally came from Kentucky to settle in the BIG WOODS in the Janesville area. There still is no record of her spouse (Jeremiah) who's name can only be found in death certificates of Mary's sons as their father.
BELOW IS AN EXPLANATION OF HOW WE FOUND AND IDENTIFIED THIS GRAVE SITE AND THE SITE OF HER SON JEREMIAH HOGAN
Information on Mary Ryan, wife of Jeremiah Hogan could only be found in Census records from 1855 and 1860. She was 60 years old in 1855 and 40 years old in 1860. She was not on the census of 1870 so I assumed she had passed away. But in checking cemeteries in Janesville, there was nothing listed.She was also mentioned in death certificates of a couple of her sons. So for a long period of time I was unable to find any thing else about her, her death or burial could not be found.
In 2013 I joined Ancestry.com and in so doing found some of our relatives on a Eustice family tree. This perked my interest as our Great Grandfather had a daughter who married a Eustice. There was two Jeremiah Hogan grave stones in St Mary's cemetery in Waseca and they had them listed as Jeremiah and Mary Hogan. I visited the Waseca Historical Society to see what they had and they pulled out the picture of the two stones. They said a volunteer had taken the pictures and listed them on FIND A GRAVE. The one; Jeremiah Hogan on the web site had a picture of the grave stone which was laying on the ground in four pieces and a year date of 1867. The other Jeremiah Hogan (leaning at a strong angle) showed a date of March 1871. I asked why they would list them as a Jeremiah and Mary Hogan when they both had the name Jeremiah, but they had no answer.
So I asked if they had anyone who would have some responsibility at St. Mary Cemetery. They gave me a Joe Hoehn who I called and he said he would meet me out there. Once out there and looking at the stones, he said why don't we put the broken grave stone together on the ground and look at them a little closer. In so doing, we found the two pieces when put together; one piece although very faint showed an 'R' and the much smaller piece showed a 'Y'. In further tracing the lettering we were assured that the other two were 'M' and an 'A', making the word 'MARY'. And below that and above the Jeremiah Hogan was faint lettering that we finally realized said 'WIFE OF'. Joe said that being buried there in 1867 was because there was no cemetery in Janesville until the late 1870's.
I told him that looks good for the Mary Hogan but there was never any mention anywhere indicating a husband Jeremiah Hogan in Janesvllle Minnesota. He then got down on the ground and looked close at the dates. He said, wait a minute, the year date is not 1871 but 1874 because they always made deep vertical lines but then for a number four would make just two very slight cuts. He said the date is 1874 not 1871. That solved it for me as Mary (Hogan) Ryan had a son Jeremiah who died in March 1874 and he had an obituary in the Janesville Journal which I found at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Mystery solved, we had found our Great Great Grandmother and son Jeremiah.
The only part remaining was to correct the broken grave stone and the leaning one. I asked Joe if there was someone in the area who could do that for me. He ended up putting the slanting stone upright and took the other stone home where he put the pieces together with metal rods and glued the whole thing together with a special compound.
My Hat is off to friends Julrene Thornberg and Joe Hoehn!
James Hogan GG Grandson of Mary Ryan
Age 64 years
Spouse: Jeremiah
First written notice of Mary Hogan (maiden name Ryan) comes from the Minnesota State Census of 1857 noting her being part of a Hogan family including four boys; James, Jeremiah, John and Patrick. She is listed as being 60 years old. She shows up in the 1860 State Census in the same grouping; age 40. She does not show up in the 1870 Census, having passed away in 1867. When she died, there was no St Ann cemetery yet, so she was buried in St Mary cemetery near the city of Waseca. Her grave site was finally located by a Julrene Thornberg in 2011. Julrene as a volunteer for "FIND A GRAVE"; recorded all burials in this remote cemetery for all of us to eventually locate portions of our family. The stone next to her is her son Jeremiah (Jerry), one of the original four boys (listed in Childs History of Waseca County) who originally came from Kentucky to settle in the BIG WOODS in the Janesville area. There still is no record of her spouse (Jeremiah) who's name can only be found in death certificates of Mary's sons as their father.
BELOW IS AN EXPLANATION OF HOW WE FOUND AND IDENTIFIED THIS GRAVE SITE AND THE SITE OF HER SON JEREMIAH HOGAN
Information on Mary Ryan, wife of Jeremiah Hogan could only be found in Census records from 1855 and 1860. She was 60 years old in 1855 and 40 years old in 1860. She was not on the census of 1870 so I assumed she had passed away. But in checking cemeteries in Janesville, there was nothing listed.She was also mentioned in death certificates of a couple of her sons. So for a long period of time I was unable to find any thing else about her, her death or burial could not be found.
In 2013 I joined Ancestry.com and in so doing found some of our relatives on a Eustice family tree. This perked my interest as our Great Grandfather had a daughter who married a Eustice. There was two Jeremiah Hogan grave stones in St Mary's cemetery in Waseca and they had them listed as Jeremiah and Mary Hogan. I visited the Waseca Historical Society to see what they had and they pulled out the picture of the two stones. They said a volunteer had taken the pictures and listed them on FIND A GRAVE. The one; Jeremiah Hogan on the web site had a picture of the grave stone which was laying on the ground in four pieces and a year date of 1867. The other Jeremiah Hogan (leaning at a strong angle) showed a date of March 1871. I asked why they would list them as a Jeremiah and Mary Hogan when they both had the name Jeremiah, but they had no answer.
So I asked if they had anyone who would have some responsibility at St. Mary Cemetery. They gave me a Joe Hoehn who I called and he said he would meet me out there. Once out there and looking at the stones, he said why don't we put the broken grave stone together on the ground and look at them a little closer. In so doing, we found the two pieces when put together; one piece although very faint showed an 'R' and the much smaller piece showed a 'Y'. In further tracing the lettering we were assured that the other two were 'M' and an 'A', making the word 'MARY'. And below that and above the Jeremiah Hogan was faint lettering that we finally realized said 'WIFE OF'. Joe said that being buried there in 1867 was because there was no cemetery in Janesville until the late 1870's.
I told him that looks good for the Mary Hogan but there was never any mention anywhere indicating a husband Jeremiah Hogan in Janesvllle Minnesota. He then got down on the ground and looked close at the dates. He said, wait a minute, the year date is not 1871 but 1874 because they always made deep vertical lines but then for a number four would make just two very slight cuts. He said the date is 1874 not 1871. That solved it for me as Mary (Hogan) Ryan had a son Jeremiah who died in March 1874 and he had an obituary in the Janesville Journal which I found at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Mystery solved, we had found our Great Great Grandmother and son Jeremiah.
The only part remaining was to correct the broken grave stone and the leaning one. I asked Joe if there was someone in the area who could do that for me. He ended up putting the slanting stone upright and took the other stone home where he put the pieces together with metal rods and glued the whole thing together with a special compound.
My Hat is off to friends Julrene Thornberg and Joe Hoehn!
The following was generated by:
James Hogan GG Grandson of Mary Ryan
Age 64 years
Spouse: Jeremiah
First written notice of Mary Hogan (maiden name Ryan) comes from the Minnesota State Census of 1857 noting her being part of a Hogan family including four boys; James, Jeremiah, John and Patrick. She is listed as being 60 years old. She shows up in the 1860 State Census in the same grouping; age 40. She does not show up in the 1870 Census, having passed away in 1867. When she died, there was no St Ann cemetery yet, so she was buried in St Mary cemetery near the city of Waseca. Her grave site was finally located by a Julrene Thornberg in 2011. Julrene as a volunteer for "FIND A GRAVE"; recorded all burials in this remote cemetery for all of us to eventually locate portions of our family. The stone next to her is her son Jeremiah (Jerry), one of the original four boys (listed in Childs History of Waseca County) who originally came from Kentucky to settle in the BIG WOODS in the Janesville area. There still is no record of her spouse (Jeremiah) who's name can only be found in death certificates of Mary's sons as their father.
BELOW IS AN EXPLANATION OF HOW WE FOUND AND IDENTIFIED THIS GRAVE SITE AND THE SITE OF HER SON JEREMIAH HOGAN
Information on Mary Ryan, wife of Jeremiah Hogan could only be found in Census records from 1855 and 1860. She was 60 years old in 1855 and 40 years old in 1860. She was not on the census of 1870 so I assumed she had passed away. But in checking cemeteries in Janesville, there was nothing listed.She was also mentioned in death certificates of a couple of her sons. So for a long period of time I was unable to find any thing else about her, her death or burial could not be found.
In 2013 I joined Ancestry.com and in so doing found some of our relatives on a Eustice family tree. This perked my interest as our Great Grandfather had a daughter who married a Eustice. There was two Jeremiah Hogan grave stones in St Mary's cemetery in Waseca and they had them listed as Jeremiah and Mary Hogan. I visited the Waseca Historical Society to see what they had and they pulled out the picture of the two stones. They said a volunteer had taken the pictures and listed them on FIND A GRAVE. The one; Jeremiah Hogan on the web site had a picture of the grave stone which was laying on the ground in four pieces and a year date of 1867. The other Jeremiah Hogan (leaning at a strong angle) showed a date of March 1871. I asked why they would list them as a Jeremiah and Mary Hogan when they both had the name Jeremiah, but they had no answer.
So I asked if they had anyone who would have some responsibility at St. Mary Cemetery. They gave me a Joe Hoehn who I called and he said he would meet me out there. Once out there and looking at the stones, he said why don't we put the broken grave stone together on the ground and look at them a little closer. In so doing, we found the two pieces when put together; one piece although very faint showed an 'R' and the much smaller piece showed a 'Y'. In further tracing the lettering we were assured that the other two were 'M' and an 'A', making the word 'MARY'. And below that and above the Jeremiah Hogan was faint lettering that we finally realized said 'WIFE OF'. Joe said that being buried there in 1867 was because there was no cemetery in Janesville until the late 1870's.
I told him that looks good for the Mary Hogan but there was never any mention anywhere indicating a husband Jeremiah Hogan in Janesvllle Minnesota. He then got down on the ground and looked close at the dates. He said, wait a minute, the year date is not 1871 but 1874 because they always made deep vertical lines but then for a number four would make just two very slight cuts. He said the date is 1874 not 1871. That solved it for me as Mary (Hogan) Ryan had a son Jeremiah who died in March 1874 and he had an obituary in the Janesville Journal which I found at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Mystery solved, we had found our Great Great Grandmother and son Jeremiah.
The only part remaining was to correct the broken grave stone and the leaning one. I asked Joe if there was someone in the area who could do that for me. He ended up putting the slanting stone upright and took the other stone home where he put the pieces together with metal rods and glued the whole thing together with a special compound.
My Hat is off to friends Julrene Thornberg and Joe Hoehn!
James Hogan GG Grandson of Mary Ryan
Age 64 years
Spouse: Jeremiah
First written notice of Mary Hogan (maiden name Ryan) comes from the Minnesota State Census of 1857 noting her being part of a Hogan family including four boys; James, Jeremiah, John and Patrick. She is listed as being 60 years old. She shows up in the 1860 State Census in the same grouping; age 40. She does not show up in the 1870 Census, having passed away in 1867. When she died, there was no St Ann cemetery yet, so she was buried in St Mary cemetery near the city of Waseca. Her grave site was finally located by a Julrene Thornberg in 2011. Julrene as a volunteer for "FIND A GRAVE"; recorded all burials in this remote cemetery for all of us to eventually locate portions of our family. The stone next to her is her son Jeremiah (Jerry), one of the original four boys (listed in Childs History of Waseca County) who originally came from Kentucky to settle in the BIG WOODS in the Janesville area. There still is no record of her spouse (Jeremiah) who's name can only be found in death certificates of Mary's sons as their father.
BELOW IS AN EXPLANATION OF HOW WE FOUND AND IDENTIFIED THIS GRAVE SITE AND THE SITE OF HER SON JEREMIAH HOGAN
Information on Mary Ryan, wife of Jeremiah Hogan could only be found in Census records from 1855 and 1860. She was 60 years old in 1855 and 40 years old in 1860. She was not on the census of 1870 so I assumed she had passed away. But in checking cemeteries in Janesville, there was nothing listed.She was also mentioned in death certificates of a couple of her sons. So for a long period of time I was unable to find any thing else about her, her death or burial could not be found.
In 2013 I joined Ancestry.com and in so doing found some of our relatives on a Eustice family tree. This perked my interest as our Great Grandfather had a daughter who married a Eustice. There was two Jeremiah Hogan grave stones in St Mary's cemetery in Waseca and they had them listed as Jeremiah and Mary Hogan. I visited the Waseca Historical Society to see what they had and they pulled out the picture of the two stones. They said a volunteer had taken the pictures and listed them on FIND A GRAVE. The one; Jeremiah Hogan on the web site had a picture of the grave stone which was laying on the ground in four pieces and a year date of 1867. The other Jeremiah Hogan (leaning at a strong angle) showed a date of March 1871. I asked why they would list them as a Jeremiah and Mary Hogan when they both had the name Jeremiah, but they had no answer.
So I asked if they had anyone who would have some responsibility at St. Mary Cemetery. They gave me a Joe Hoehn who I called and he said he would meet me out there. Once out there and looking at the stones, he said why don't we put the broken grave stone together on the ground and look at them a little closer. In so doing, we found the two pieces when put together; one piece although very faint showed an 'R' and the much smaller piece showed a 'Y'. In further tracing the lettering we were assured that the other two were 'M' and an 'A', making the word 'MARY'. And below that and above the Jeremiah Hogan was faint lettering that we finally realized said 'WIFE OF'. Joe said that being buried there in 1867 was because there was no cemetery in Janesville until the late 1870's.
I told him that looks good for the Mary Hogan but there was never any mention anywhere indicating a husband Jeremiah Hogan in Janesvllle Minnesota. He then got down on the ground and looked close at the dates. He said, wait a minute, the year date is not 1871 but 1874 because they always made deep vertical lines but then for a number four would make just two very slight cuts. He said the date is 1874 not 1871. That solved it for me as Mary (Hogan) Ryan had a son Jeremiah who died in March 1874 and he had an obituary in the Janesville Journal which I found at the Minnesota Historical Society.
Mystery solved, we had found our Great Great Grandmother and son Jeremiah.
The only part remaining was to correct the broken grave stone and the leaning one. I asked Joe if there was someone in the area who could do that for me. He ended up putting the slanting stone upright and took the other stone home where he put the pieces together with metal rods and glued the whole thing together with a special compound.
My Hat is off to friends Julrene Thornberg and Joe Hoehn!
Inscription
Mary
wife of
Jeremiah Hogan
Died
July 10 1867
Aged
64 Years Old
Gravesite Details
Stone is broken in four pieces and laying on ground, Plan is to piece together laying flat on ground.
