I was recently researching my Irish ancestors who came to America from County Cork in the late 1840's, settling first in Lafayette County, Wisconsin. One of them was Margaret KELLY, older sister of my great-great grandfather, Patrick D. KELLY. Our family lore said that she married a Dennis HAGERTY. In fact, a Dominican nun at Sinsinawa, Wisconsin (in the neighboring county to the west) showed me a list of old records from marriages performed by Rev. Samuel Mazzuchelli, a well known pioneer priest, born in Italy, who was responsible for establishment of several churches and schools in the area. On the list was a marriage of Dennis HAGERTY to Margaret KELLY on August 20, 1854 at the then ten-year old St. Augustine Church in New Diggings (where my great grandparents would marry in 1871). This was apparently the only marriage performed by that great soul for my family, although at least three of the family married in that church. I have not located an 1860 census record for the HAGERTY's, but in 1870 at New Diggings they were enumerated as "Higgerty". Margaret was listed as 37 (the birth years of Margaret and her siblings, John and Patrick, skip around from census to census, so they had some trouble reckoning their age), and she had two children, Hannah (12) and Mary (8). The children were for some reason enumerated at a neighbor's house (Timothy Driscoll) ), along with their grandmother Catharine FLEMING KELLY (whose husband, Daniel KELLY, had died in Ireland). There was no sign of Dennis. Our family lore says that he was lost in the Civil War. Margaret KELLY HAGERTY is buried in the cemetery beside the Immaculate Church at Blessing, Black Hawk County, Iowa, near where Patrick KELLY farmed. She is listed on the stone as Margaret "Hegarty", 1829-1914. Hannah C. (HAGERTY) THORNTON, Dec. 19, 1857 to Mar. 21, 1937, is buried beside her. Here's the odd part: My family left only a very few civil records for the early years in Wisconsin, so the parish information has been invaluable. But while I was checking the (well indexed) records at the county seat in Darlington, I found a marriage for Jeffrey SULLIVAN, farmer, resident of New Diggings, born County Cork, Ireland, son of John SULLIVAN and Johanna MURPHY, to a Margaretta HAGGERTY, daughter of Daniel KELLY and Catharine FLEMING. This is beyond coincidence!! The marriage occurred on October 27, 1874, and was witnessed by John SHEA and Johanna KELLY (probably the Johannah LYNCH who married Margaret's brother John in 1856). So evidently Margaret remarried to a SULLIVAN, but by the time she died she was using the HAGERTY name again. I found an 1850 census entry in New Diggings for Jeffrey and Bridget SULLIVAN, born in Ireland. I have not yet been able to locate any children for Jeffrey, and Jeffrey does not seem to be in the New Diggings census for 1880, with or without Margaret. If anyone knows of this man or his family, please contact me. Kevin P. Kelly, g-g-son of Patrick D. Kelly