This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YRB.2ACE/871.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My Mary Ward was born December 25, 1827 in Kildare Ireland. Her family immigrated in the late 1830's. I know they settled in the Minerva, New York area. Mary married Matthias Garvey around 1850. Mary had a sister Margaret who married Daniel Lynch. Daniel did a good deal of surveying for the town of Minerva and is mentioned in the towns history. I do not know if Mary and Margaret had any brothers but it is likely. Though Mary and Matthias moved west and ended up in South Dakota, most of their children ended up back in the Mineville area. In one town there is supposed to be a smoke stack with the name Garvey on it. Charles Garvey, Matthias and Mary's oldest son, ran a diamond drilling business at the turn of the century.