This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reilley Blessington Howley Stuart Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.clinton/1749.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Margaret Reilley and John Blessington came to Ellis Island on June 3, 1839. Their child John Blessington (1825) married Mary Anne Howley of Lowell Mass. They had Mary Ann Blessington who married James Stuart who had my great grandfather, Charles Francis Stuart in Clinton Iowa in June 1879. It is nice to know who their daughter Margaret Blessington married. Margaret Reilley (1786) and John Blessington (1785) are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, a.k.a Mill Creek Clinton, Iowa. John Blessington 1825 and wife Mary Ann Howley 1833 are there as well.