Continued from Flanagan Family: 1882-1902. During this period, seven of the nine Flanagans die and one is institutionalized. Our grandmother Catherine (later known to all

Continued from Flanagan Family: 1882-1902. During this period, seven of the nine Flanagans die and one is institutionalized. Our grandmother Catherine (later known to all
The Flanagan family is created: Irish immigrants have seven children and settle in St. Louis. My grandmother Catherine remembered these years as the good ones
Maggie Keville made her way to America like so many other late 19th-century Irish — an 18-year-old “spinster,” traveling without family, aboard the S.S. Alaska.