This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morrissey, Hawks Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi1.2ACEB/347 Message Board Post: From "History of Grant County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 950. TOWN OF BLOOMINGTON RICHARD MORRISSEY, Sec. 5; P. O. Bloomington; owns 400 acres land, valued at $40 per acre; born in Ireland in 1840; came to America in 1857, and in 1858 settled on his present farm. Married Mary A. Hawks, a native of Ireland; they have four children - Delbert, William, Addie and Myrtle. [I am not related to this family. I'm posting this as a service and hope it helps!]