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man‎Michael "FLAVIN" Flavin‏‎
Born ‎± 1858 Ireland, died ‎± 1890 Montana‎, age approximately 32 years
Michael Flahaven's wife, Mary Ann Killeen, was the granddaughter of Michael and Catherine Rooney, and a first cousin once-removed to his brother Bart's wife, Julia Ann Egan, a great granddaughter of Michael and Catherine Rooney.

Married ‎1880 Stearns County, Minnesota, age approximately 22 years (married approximately 10 years) to:

womanMary Ann Killeen‏, age by marriage 19 or 20 years, daughter of Patrick Bunam "Bunam Patrick" Killeen and Catherine E "Catharine on gravestone" Rooney‏.
Born ‎9 Feb 1860 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎12 Dec 1935 Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana‎, age 75 years, ‎1st marriage to: Michael "FLAVIN" Flavin, 2nd marriage to: Leslie A McKinney
Mary Ann Killeen came to the U.S. from Canada in 1868. She was married to Michael Flavin [Flahaven] in 1879 at 19 years of age. They had 5 children. Michael Flavin was a heavy drinker and died young. Mary Ann left Minnesota and went to Helena, MT and opened a boarding house to support herself and the children.

Leslie McKinney, from the same town in Minnesota, also came to Helena shortly there after and, just by chance, went to her boarding house. She had known him back east and had taught his sister in a little one room school house where she taught before getting married. There was 10 years difference in their ages, and they eventually married on October 19, 1893. She was 32 and he, 22. They had four children: Lucy, George L [Leslie], Leonard, and perhaps a Mary Ann but I can't find her in the records.

Mary Ann and Leslie ran a dairy farm or ranch in Prickly Pear, MT and they furnished the Northern Pacific Railroad and East Helena with milk. Leslie was a very mechanically minded person and had rigged a plumbing system into the house giving them running water and had the dairy running by steam.

At one time, they owned 23 houses in Helena. The houses sold for $2000 and less. The dairy was burned out twice and they lost heavily in buildings and livestock.

Leslie died from a stroke at age 55. Mary Ann made her home in her later years with her daughter, Grace, in Helena. Mary Ann died in her sleep, while visiting overnight, at the home of her son, Leonard, in Helena, MT.

Children:

1.
man‎Walter Bernard "Flavin on his gravestone" Flavin‏‎
Born ‎11 Aug 1881 Minnesota, died ‎1933 Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana Event Description: Resurrection Cemetery‎, age 51 or 52 years

2.
womanMaybelle Blanche "Mable, Mabel" Flavin‏
Born ‎28 Mar 1883 Getty Grove, Stearns County, Minnesota, died ‎21 Nov 1946 Montana‎, age 63 years, buried Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana

3.
man‎Thomas Stephen "Thomas S. Flavin on gravestone" Flavin‏‎
Born ‎27 Nov 1885 Minnesota, died ‎1933 Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana Event Description: Resurrection Cemetery, Helena, Montana‎, age 47 or 48 years
Thomas, the son of Mary Ann McKinney, has a WWI draft registration in which if gives his exact birth date and his middle name of Stephen. In the 1920 census, Thomas is a single farmer and listed under the surname Flavin.

4.
womanCatherine Ellen "Nell K; Nellie" Flavin‏
Born ‎1888 Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota, died ‎1929 Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana‎, age 40 or 41 years
Surname listed as Flavin in Catherine's Montana marriage certificate , and her first name is spelled with a "K."

5.
womanGrace Mildred Flavin‏
Born ‎8 Jul 1889 Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minnesota, died ‎18 Dec 1973 Hamilton, Ravalli County, Montana Event Description: Riverview Cemetery‎, age 84 years
"Grayce" had as one witness to her marriage her sister Nell. Her last name is listed in the certificate as "Flavin."

Grace O'Rourke, 84, - Grace M. O'Rourke, 84, formerly of Helena, died in Hamilton Tuesday. She was born July 8, 1889, in Sauk Centre, Minn. She came to Helena with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Flavian, in the 1890's and attended Helena schools. She married George O'Rourke in Helena June 21, 1910. He died in 1942. Since 1948 she has made her home in Hamilton.