This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KEALY KEALEY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/iEB.2ACE/659 Message Board Post: I am looking for information about the last years of Thomas Kealy or Kealey, who died in or near Federalsburg in 1879. Thomas was born in 1809 in NY. In the 1830s he farmed in Cayuga County, and from about 1837 to 1858 he lived in Lenawee Co., MI, where he traded land and had a milling business. In 1858 he relocated to Denton Co., TX, where he and a brother were large landholders and ran another mill. In 1872 his wife Henrietta died, and probably in the mid-1870s he moved back east to NJ or MD. He may have remarried, so there may be a widow Kealy in Caroline County in 1880. Thomas was on the road a lot during his life. In 1849/1850, before he moved to TX, he appears to have been a leader of a California expedition that started from Council Bluffs IA. After the Civil War he participated in one of the Texas conventions devoted to creating a new constitution for the readmitted state, and he served in the state legislature representing Denton County. Any help would be appreciated.