Good morning! Endlessly poking around for: Moran, Thomas and Mary Geatley Moran & children John, Edward, Thomas, Luke, and Ann. I have no idea what happened to Ann! Of course if she married a Byrne or a Crean -- there she is in that census household, indistinguishable from the Ann Crean listed in the previous census : ( Mary is interred at Our Lady, Queen of Peace -- Thomas senior may be, too, in the unmarked grave next to Mary? John died @ 1864, but I don't know where -- but there is a Federal soldier buried in the Fort Marcy cemetery named John Moran. (But the helpful & sympathetic cemetery worker couldn't help me -- and I'm currently too broke to order a complete service record of someone else's John Moran!) John's widow Margaret Donegan Moran remarried "Tom" Thompson. John's daughter Mary Ann (born 1861) married a Donnell according to Margaret 1910 obituary -- is her husband from the W.R. Donnell family??? John's sons Patrick (1857) and Edward (1859) are a mystery -- not mentioned in their mother's obit. Edward died in 1870, love those Mortality Schedules! His widow Margaret married Peter Farrelly/Farley. Edward's children Isaac (1865) and Catherine (1867) are listed as Peter's stepchildren in the 1880. Margaret (per a line in the probate file) later married a Patrick Hannan. Peter later married Rachel Bailey. Peter's family is big, his mother served as midwife, his brother Terrence is interred at Our Lady, but what happened to Isaac & Catherine? Probate files on these two groups of minor are mixed together on the microfilmed probate files at the State Archives. No dismissal papers for either group! In 1884, "Katie Moran" was issued $15 "for schooling expenses" but that's about it. Hhmm, if Katie married a Byrne or a Crean -- she's indistinguishable from the Katie listed in the previous census! Thomas (1841) and Luke (1842) joined the 10th Missouri Infantry CSA. Luke died April 9, 1864 during The Battle of Pleasant Hill in Louisiana. Cousin John Geatley (1845) was assigned to burial detail the next day & interred him. (Thanks to the ladies of the UDC for sending surveys to those veterans, thank you, thank you!) If you know what these three were doing at Eleven Points in Ripley County -- I'd like to hear it. I think they were timbering, probably somewhat supervised by the Moran listed as a property owner in The Irish Wilderness. Anybody solved that research problem? Thomas was captured at Helena, Arkansas and probably escaped from Fort Alton. ; ) He married Mary Hildebrand, daughter of Hiram & Elizabeth Pepper Hildebrand in 1870. And many others...thanks a bunch!