Hi All: We drove to Lexington, Kentucky yesterday (about 3 l/2 hours) from Martinsville, Indiana. The trees are beautiful and Kentucky is beautiful country. I was hoping to find information about my ggg grandfather, Martin Sheehan and his family. Went to the Lexington Public Library; The Kentucky Room is the genealogy section and the people working there were very, very nice and helpful.. We did find info. about Martin Sheehan and it was interesting to note that 5 of his 8 children never married. Some lived to be in their 80s. There are a couple I'm not able to find -- Rev. Martin Sheehan, jr. of New York City. He was mentioned in a short obituary for his older brother, Thomas.. Also, in the Calvary Cemetery records, Martin Sheehan's parents were shown as Martin Sheehan and Josie Mahoney, both of Ireland. We were able to find their headstone, which showed Martin, his wife Ellen (maiden name unknown) and 4 of their grown - unmarried children all buried there. Some of the dates of birth and death on the large, beautiful stone, were different than were listed in the Calvary Cemetery Book. Could not get the whole stone in one picture. So, now I'm trying to organize the whole chart...I'm almost positive these are my Sheehans and intend to contact St. Paul Catholic Church in Lexington to find what they might have in the way of information on this family. They were definitely Irish Catholics. They used and re-used the same names, which makes it even more difficult. The children's names were: Josephine, Thomas, Mary, Nellie, Dennis, (another) Mary, John Joseph and Rev. Martin jr. Martin Sheehan, my ggg grandfather (according to the 1900 Fayette County, Kentucky Census) came to the U.S. in 1848 -- had been in the U.S. for 52 years. He was at that time 27 years old. This was during the Irish Famine years -- however, I haven't been able to find him in passenger lists. (Maybe he was a stowaway. ha.) I'm wondering if he was indentured to someone for 7 years.. Just speculation at this point, however, his first daughter, Nellie was born in 1856, so he was probably married in 1854 or 1855 --- so, 1848 plus 7 years would be 1855, and he would have been 34 years old. Did the Irish marry later in life? At that time, 34 was 'older' wasn't it?? He was in Ionia, Michigan at one time; Fayette County, Kentucky; then to Decatur County, Iowa; then back to Fayette County, Kentucky where he died in 1909 at the age of 88. Does anyone have any ideas why so many of his children continued to live at home and not marry?? Was that an Irish thing? Well, onward with best regards, Nancee