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Jeremiah Lyons

Photo Album My Great-Grandmother Discovered

December/ January 2021
Submitted by Robert F. Lyons from Kennebunk, Maine

February 18, 2021 by 4 Comments

It was the accidental discovery of a vintage photograph, which enabled me to meet my first Irish-American relative, my great grandmother, Ellen Whelan Lyons of Co Waterford, Ireland.  At a family reunion in South Dakota, my cousin, John Maloney, had tossed out on the table a bushel basketful of old photos. My wife Nona retrieved from the pile a photo of an … [Read more...] about Photo Album My Great-Grandmother Discovered

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