Lady Marcella (Brian) (Keenan) Clark, Born October 31, 1830, to a father Thomas Brian, and Mother Mary Connor, in Wexford, Ireland. Deceased October 12, 1913, in Paola, Miami, Kansas, USA.
She married in Wexford, Ireland, 10 Sep 1853, to a servant or farmhand, John Keenan, working on her fathers estate. The Brian Family were royalty. Because Lady Marcella married a servant, they were ex-communicated from Ireland. They were in a hurry to catch their boat to America, but on the way to the boat, they descovered they had forgotten their marriage license. so they returned for same; consequently they missed their Ship to America. It was discovered later that this boat sank on the way over.
John and Marcella Keenan did catch the next Ship to America and landed in New York Nov 1853. After remaining there for a short while they moved on to settled west of Freeport, in Dublin, Illinois. Three sons were born to this union: Thomas Clarence Keenan, born 22 Oct 1854; Joseph F Keenan, born 4 Jul 1858; Peter J Keenan, born 7 Nov 1859.
John Keenan was killed in a threshing accident on the farm 10 Sep 1860, he left a widow, and three sons aged six, two and one.
Marcella stayed on in the Freeport area for the next five years and in 1865 she married Richard Clark,an Englishman born in Lincolnshire. They left Freeport and moved to Kansas in 1868 and settled on a farm, on the Marais des Cygnes River, near Henson. Marcella and Richard Clark had one child, Alice Clark, born 13 Dec 1866, who died 6 May 1870. Alice must have made the trip with them.
Richard Clark died in 1877, according to Marcella's Obituary. However his otituary in the Paola paper gives his date of death as 5 Feb 1880 this appears more reliable as it appears in a 1880 newspaper. Marcella moved into the town of Paola in 1880 and lived at 209 E. Chippewa until her death on 12 Oct 1913.
According to the 1900 Census for Miami County show that Marcella had seven children, Three of which were living. She had one from her second marriage that died. This means that at some other time in her life she had two additional children who died.
Between her marriage in 1854 and the year 1880, a period of 26 years, Marcella had traveled across the ocean with a husband of only a few days; she had settled in Illinois only to lose her husband afer six years of mariage; she had lost three children; she had lost another husband; and to hear family members describe her, she was still a very positive person. It took a very special kind of person to handle that much hardship and to still keep on going.
Obituary.
Mrs. Marcella Clark is Dead.
A gentle soul went to a reward last Sunday evening, October 12, 1913, when Mrs. Marcella Clark, of this city, died at her home. Had she lived until the last day of this month, she would have been 83 years old.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, October 31st, 1830, she was married to John Keenan, in 1853. Immediately after their marriage, the young couple set sail for America and landed in New York. Remaining there a short while, they moved west and settled at Freeport, Illinois. From Freeport they moved to Dublin, Illinois. Here Mr. Keenan died and, in 1865, Mrs. Keenan and Richard Clark were married. Three years later the family moved to Miami county, Kansas, and made their home south of Paola on the north bank of the river. Mr. Clark died there in 1877.
In 1880, Mrs. Clark moved to Paola and here she lived from that time on. She was a very devout and industrious person, who gave heed to the welfare of everybody with whom she came in conact. Many is the person that she has helped and many is the prayer she has offered up for those in want and those in distress.
Mrs. Clark was a woman of bright mind. she was saving and invested her surplus money to a good advantage. To her sons she extended all the opportunities for education that the country afforded, and, besides this gave them a wholesome moral example in her conduct.
The three living sons are: Thomas C. Keenan, a resident of Williamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas; Joseph F. Keenan, whose home is near Cleveland, Mo., and Peter J. Keenan, who lives upon the old homestead, south of town. Joe will move to Paola in a short time, as he has already purchased ground and expects to make this his permanent home.
Burial services were conducted last Wednesday, mass being sung at the Holy Trinity church by Reverend Father Burk. The body was borne to the Catholic cemetery, east of the city, and there interred with the rites of the church. Thus lived and thus died the unselfish, hard-working charitable Marcella Clark. May her soul rest in peace!
She married in Wexford, Ireland, 10 Sep 1853, to a servant or farmhand, John Keenan, working on her fathers estate. The Brian Family were royalty. Because Lady Marcella married a servant, they were ex-communicated from Ireland. They were in a hurry to catch their boat to America, but on the way to the boat, they descovered they had forgotten their marriage license. so they returned for same; consequently they missed their Ship to America. It was discovered later that this boat sank on the way over.
John and Marcella Keenan did catch the next Ship to America and landed in New York Nov 1853. After remaining there for a short while they moved on to settled west of Freeport, in Dublin, Illinois. Three sons were born to this union: Thomas Clarence Keenan, born 22 Oct 1854; Joseph F Keenan, born 4 Jul 1858; Peter J Keenan, born 7 Nov 1859.
John Keenan was killed in a threshing accident on the farm 10 Sep 1860, he left a widow, and three sons aged six, two and one.
Marcella stayed on in the Freeport area for the next five years and in 1865 she married Richard Clark,an Englishman born in Lincolnshire. They left Freeport and moved to Kansas in 1868 and settled on a farm, on the Marais des Cygnes River, near Henson. Marcella and Richard Clark had one child, Alice Clark, born 13 Dec 1866, who died 6 May 1870. Alice must have made the trip with them.
Richard Clark died in 1877, according to Marcella's Obituary. However his otituary in the Paola paper gives his date of death as 5 Feb 1880 this appears more reliable as it appears in a 1880 newspaper. Marcella moved into the town of Paola in 1880 and lived at 209 E. Chippewa until her death on 12 Oct 1913.
According to the 1900 Census for Miami County show that Marcella had seven children, Three of which were living. She had one from her second marriage that died. This means that at some other time in her life she had two additional children who died.
Between her marriage in 1854 and the year 1880, a period of 26 years, Marcella had traveled across the ocean with a husband of only a few days; she had settled in Illinois only to lose her husband afer six years of mariage; she had lost three children; she had lost another husband; and to hear family members describe her, she was still a very positive person. It took a very special kind of person to handle that much hardship and to still keep on going.
Obituary.
Mrs. Marcella Clark is Dead.
A gentle soul went to a reward last Sunday evening, October 12, 1913, when Mrs. Marcella Clark, of this city, died at her home. Had she lived until the last day of this month, she would have been 83 years old.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, October 31st, 1830, she was married to John Keenan, in 1853. Immediately after their marriage, the young couple set sail for America and landed in New York. Remaining there a short while, they moved west and settled at Freeport, Illinois. From Freeport they moved to Dublin, Illinois. Here Mr. Keenan died and, in 1865, Mrs. Keenan and Richard Clark were married. Three years later the family moved to Miami county, Kansas, and made their home south of Paola on the north bank of the river. Mr. Clark died there in 1877.
In 1880, Mrs. Clark moved to Paola and here she lived from that time on. She was a very devout and industrious person, who gave heed to the welfare of everybody with whom she came in conact. Many is the person that she has helped and many is the prayer she has offered up for those in want and those in distress.
Mrs. Clark was a woman of bright mind. she was saving and invested her surplus money to a good advantage. To her sons she extended all the opportunities for education that the country afforded, and, besides this gave them a wholesome moral example in her conduct.
The three living sons are: Thomas C. Keenan, a resident of Williamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas; Joseph F. Keenan, whose home is near Cleveland, Mo., and Peter J. Keenan, who lives upon the old homestead, south of town. Joe will move to Paola in a short time, as he has already purchased ground and expects to make this his permanent home.
Burial services were conducted last Wednesday, mass being sung at the Holy Trinity church by Reverend Father Burk. The body was borne to the Catholic cemetery, east of the city, and there interred with the rites of the church. Thus lived and thus died the unselfish, hard-working charitable Marcella Clark. May her soul rest in peace!
Lady Marcella (Brian) (Keenan) Clark, Born October 31, 1830, to a father Thomas Brian, and Mother Mary Connor, in Wexford, Ireland. Deceased October 12, 1913, in Paola, Miami, Kansas, USA.
She married in Wexford, Ireland, 10 Sep 1853, to a servant or farmhand, John Keenan, working on her fathers estate. The Brian Family were royalty. Because Lady Marcella married a servant, they were ex-communicated from Ireland. They were in a hurry to catch their boat to America, but on the way to the boat, they descovered they had forgotten their marriage license. so they returned for same; consequently they missed their Ship to America. It was discovered later that this boat sank on the way over.
John and Marcella Keenan did catch the next Ship to America and landed in New York Nov 1853. After remaining there for a short while they moved on to settled west of Freeport, in Dublin, Illinois. Three sons were born to this union: Thomas Clarence Keenan, born 22 Oct 1854; Joseph F Keenan, born 4 Jul 1858; Peter J Keenan, born 7 Nov 1859.
John Keenan was killed in a threshing accident on the farm 10 Sep 1860, he left a widow, and three sons aged six, two and one.
Marcella stayed on in the Freeport area for the next five years and in 1865 she married Richard Clark,an Englishman born in Lincolnshire. They left Freeport and moved to Kansas in 1868 and settled on a farm, on the Marais des Cygnes River, near Henson. Marcella and Richard Clark had one child, Alice Clark, born 13 Dec 1866, who died 6 May 1870. Alice must have made the trip with them.
Richard Clark died in 1877, according to Marcella's Obituary. However his otituary in the Paola paper gives his date of death as 5 Feb 1880 this appears more reliable as it appears in a 1880 newspaper. Marcella moved into the town of Paola in 1880 and lived at 209 E. Chippewa until her death on 12 Oct 1913.
According to the 1900 Census for Miami County show that Marcella had seven children, Three of which were living. She had one from her second marriage that died. This means that at some other time in her life she had two additional children who died.
Between her marriage in 1854 and the year 1880, a period of 26 years, Marcella had traveled across the ocean with a husband of only a few days; she had settled in Illinois only to lose her husband afer six years of mariage; she had lost three children; she had lost another husband; and to hear family members describe her, she was still a very positive person. It took a very special kind of person to handle that much hardship and to still keep on going.
Obituary.
Mrs. Marcella Clark is Dead.
A gentle soul went to a reward last Sunday evening, October 12, 1913, when Mrs. Marcella Clark, of this city, died at her home. Had she lived until the last day of this month, she would have been 83 years old.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, October 31st, 1830, she was married to John Keenan, in 1853. Immediately after their marriage, the young couple set sail for America and landed in New York. Remaining there a short while, they moved west and settled at Freeport, Illinois. From Freeport they moved to Dublin, Illinois. Here Mr. Keenan died and, in 1865, Mrs. Keenan and Richard Clark were married. Three years later the family moved to Miami county, Kansas, and made their home south of Paola on the north bank of the river. Mr. Clark died there in 1877.
In 1880, Mrs. Clark moved to Paola and here she lived from that time on. She was a very devout and industrious person, who gave heed to the welfare of everybody with whom she came in conact. Many is the person that she has helped and many is the prayer she has offered up for those in want and those in distress.
Mrs. Clark was a woman of bright mind. she was saving and invested her surplus money to a good advantage. To her sons she extended all the opportunities for education that the country afforded, and, besides this gave them a wholesome moral example in her conduct.
The three living sons are: Thomas C. Keenan, a resident of Williamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas; Joseph F. Keenan, whose home is near Cleveland, Mo., and Peter J. Keenan, who lives upon the old homestead, south of town. Joe will move to Paola in a short time, as he has already purchased ground and expects to make this his permanent home.
Burial services were conducted last Wednesday, mass being sung at the Holy Trinity church by Reverend Father Burk. The body was borne to the Catholic cemetery, east of the city, and there interred with the rites of the church. Thus lived and thus died the unselfish, hard-working charitable Marcella Clark. May her soul rest in peace!
She married in Wexford, Ireland, 10 Sep 1853, to a servant or farmhand, John Keenan, working on her fathers estate. The Brian Family were royalty. Because Lady Marcella married a servant, they were ex-communicated from Ireland. They were in a hurry to catch their boat to America, but on the way to the boat, they descovered they had forgotten their marriage license. so they returned for same; consequently they missed their Ship to America. It was discovered later that this boat sank on the way over.
John and Marcella Keenan did catch the next Ship to America and landed in New York Nov 1853. After remaining there for a short while they moved on to settled west of Freeport, in Dublin, Illinois. Three sons were born to this union: Thomas Clarence Keenan, born 22 Oct 1854; Joseph F Keenan, born 4 Jul 1858; Peter J Keenan, born 7 Nov 1859.
John Keenan was killed in a threshing accident on the farm 10 Sep 1860, he left a widow, and three sons aged six, two and one.
Marcella stayed on in the Freeport area for the next five years and in 1865 she married Richard Clark,an Englishman born in Lincolnshire. They left Freeport and moved to Kansas in 1868 and settled on a farm, on the Marais des Cygnes River, near Henson. Marcella and Richard Clark had one child, Alice Clark, born 13 Dec 1866, who died 6 May 1870. Alice must have made the trip with them.
Richard Clark died in 1877, according to Marcella's Obituary. However his otituary in the Paola paper gives his date of death as 5 Feb 1880 this appears more reliable as it appears in a 1880 newspaper. Marcella moved into the town of Paola in 1880 and lived at 209 E. Chippewa until her death on 12 Oct 1913.
According to the 1900 Census for Miami County show that Marcella had seven children, Three of which were living. She had one from her second marriage that died. This means that at some other time in her life she had two additional children who died.
Between her marriage in 1854 and the year 1880, a period of 26 years, Marcella had traveled across the ocean with a husband of only a few days; she had settled in Illinois only to lose her husband afer six years of mariage; she had lost three children; she had lost another husband; and to hear family members describe her, she was still a very positive person. It took a very special kind of person to handle that much hardship and to still keep on going.
Obituary.
Mrs. Marcella Clark is Dead.
A gentle soul went to a reward last Sunday evening, October 12, 1913, when Mrs. Marcella Clark, of this city, died at her home. Had she lived until the last day of this month, she would have been 83 years old.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, October 31st, 1830, she was married to John Keenan, in 1853. Immediately after their marriage, the young couple set sail for America and landed in New York. Remaining there a short while, they moved west and settled at Freeport, Illinois. From Freeport they moved to Dublin, Illinois. Here Mr. Keenan died and, in 1865, Mrs. Keenan and Richard Clark were married. Three years later the family moved to Miami county, Kansas, and made their home south of Paola on the north bank of the river. Mr. Clark died there in 1877.
In 1880, Mrs. Clark moved to Paola and here she lived from that time on. She was a very devout and industrious person, who gave heed to the welfare of everybody with whom she came in conact. Many is the person that she has helped and many is the prayer she has offered up for those in want and those in distress.
Mrs. Clark was a woman of bright mind. she was saving and invested her surplus money to a good advantage. To her sons she extended all the opportunities for education that the country afforded, and, besides this gave them a wholesome moral example in her conduct.
The three living sons are: Thomas C. Keenan, a resident of Williamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas; Joseph F. Keenan, whose home is near Cleveland, Mo., and Peter J. Keenan, who lives upon the old homestead, south of town. Joe will move to Paola in a short time, as he has already purchased ground and expects to make this his permanent home.
Burial services were conducted last Wednesday, mass being sung at the Holy Trinity church by Reverend Father Burk. The body was borne to the Catholic cemetery, east of the city, and there interred with the rites of the church. Thus lived and thus died the unselfish, hard-working charitable Marcella Clark. May her soul rest in peace!
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