Born ‎14 Sep 1845 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎25 Jan 1911 Sedan, Pope County, Minnesota‎, age 65 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
William Martin and Catherine Rooney were married at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic church in what is today northeast Minneapolis on July 7, 1867. (The cities of St. Anthony east of the Mississippi and Minneapolis west of the Mississippi, merged into one, Minneapolis, in 1872.) Witnesses were John J. Darcy and Mary Tracy. The French priest, Rev. Felix Tissot, performed the ceremony. Fr Tissot is buried in the "circle" in St. Anthony Cemetery in Minneapolis
Two years later John Darcy married Catherine's younger sister Sarah at the same church with the same priest. They had a son they named Felix.
Mary Tracy would have been Catherine's 24-year-old first cousin, daughter of her aunt Ann Rooney.
As of 2016, the St. Anthony parish records are at the Church of the Holy Cross in Minneapolis, about a mile north of St. Anthony of Padua (612-789-7238) on University Avenue.
Also, see http://www.lngplants.com/Basilica_of_Saint_Mary_Minneapolis_1955_JMR_PA.html

Glenwood Herald
February 3, 1911

CALLED TO HEAVENLY HOME
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Mrs. Catherine E. Martin of Sedan is called Home After Long and Useful Life.
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At her home in Sedan, Minn. on Wednesday, January 25, Mrs. Catherine E. Martin passed away at the age of sixty five years. Death had been expected for some time for the doctors gave up hope long ago, and Death alone could furnish relief from a long term of pain and suffering which began several years ago [carcinoma of the rectum].
Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Father Sharer of Padua in the Catholic church at Sedan on Saturday at nine o'clock and interment was made in the cemetery at Padua, in the afternoon of the same day, and the body laid beside that of her husband William J. Martin who had died just eight months before.
Deceased whose maiden name was Catherine B. Rooney, was born in Canada September 14, 1845, and was therefore, at the time of her death in the 66th year of her age. In the early sixties she emigrated with her parents to Minnesota and settled in Minneapolis, which was then little more than a village. Here she was married to William Martin in 1866 [actually, July 7, 1867]. They moved to Stearns county in 1873, whe re they lived for 12 years engaged in farming till 1885 when they move d to Bangor, Pope county. In June 1908, they moved into town finding farm work some what strenuous for their advancing years and here she passed away as above noted surrounded by a number of sorrowing friends and relatives.
Six sons and four daughters live to mourn the loss of a kind and loving mother, also six brothers and one sister survive her. The sons are, John F. Martin, Frazee, Minn., James E. of Kensington, W. E. and Chas. H. of Sedan, T. C. of St. Paul and E. L. Martin of Windham, Mont. The daughters are, Mrs. James A. Gaffaney of Forada, Margaret Julia and Elizabeth of Sedan. The brothers are, Michael and John Rooney of Montana, James and W. E. Rooney of Padua, T. T. and Hugh M. Rooney, Brooten and a sister Mrs. Dennis Egan of Padua.
Kind and loving in disposition, a great friend of the children of all ages, her sympathies were always with the young. She will be greatly missed by a large circle of friends, and the loss to her home is irreparable, indeed.
The Herald joins in extending sincere sympathy to the friends and relatives of the deceased.

Born ‎16 Feb 1847 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎16 Jan 1932 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Stearns, Minnesota‎, age 84 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Michael Rooney is in the 1870 U.S. census of Ward 2, St. Anthony, city of Minneapolis as a laborer. He was 23 - b. about 1847 - in Canada. Alongside him are his sister "Kate," married to William Martin and their two kids and William's brother John, brother Michael, age 23, and perhaps a cousin, Patrick Killeen, age 40, born in Ireland and probably a Civil War soldier, born in Galway according to those records.

Mike never married. He was living with his sister and brother-in-law William Martin and family in the 1875 census of Stearns County, Minnesota.

After the locusts destroyed the crops, he went hunting buffalo in Montana. He lived in Billings for years. Ambrose Rooney said they used to call him "sheep mountain Mike." While he was gone he lent his farm to his sister Catherine and brother-in-law William Martin. He spent his retirement with his brother William in Padua. Cause of death: Auricular fibrillation, cardiac decongestion, prostate hypertrophy.


Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetery, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

Michael J. Rooney was born in Canada, on February 2, 1847 to John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. He was the third of twelve children. Michael never married and would travel to Montana, with his brothers, to trap furs and bring them back to Minnesota to sell. On one such trip, they were stopped by Indians, givings up their bounty to save their scalps. His Minnesota family nicknamed him "Sheep Mountain Mike" because of his many Montana trips.

Michael homesteaded a farm two miles south of Padua where his sister Catharine and family first stayed, and then rented the farm from Michael. Michael enjoyed spending time in Padua with his brother WIlliam, and loved to cut wood from the grove around William's farm. He kept a large stock pile of wood on William's farm.

Michael died on January 16, 1932 and is buried by his brother William and William's wife Helena Rooney. His parents, brothers and sisters Catharine Martin, James, Thomas T., Mary Egan and Elizabeth Egan are also buried in Padua.

Born ‎29 Apr 1848 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎10 Jun 1926 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Padua, Stearns, MN‎, age 78 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
James Rooney is in the 1870 U.S. census of Ward 2, St. Anthony, city of Minneapolis as a laborer. He was 21 - b. about 1849 - in Canada. Alongside him are his sister "Kate," married to William Martin and their two kids and William's brother John, brother Michael, age 23, and perhaps a cousin, Patrick Killeen, age 40, born in Ireland and probably a Civil War soldier at Ft. Snelling in 1865, born in Galway according to the war record.

James's naturalization record is in the Pope County courthouse, dated March 29, 1897 and witnessed by Thomas J. Rooney and Joseph C. Egan.


riginally published August 1998, Padua Cemetery, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

James Rooney was born April 29, 1848, in Canada, the son of John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. He was the fourth child of twelve children. James married Anna (Annie) Egan and they farmed just west of Padua, on the farm owned by Bob Streff in 1976. The big brick house, that still stands today on the farm, was built by James in 1911.

James and Anna had seven children:
Mary Ellen - became Sister Eucebia, a Benedictine nun at Atckinson, KA and is buried in Kansas.
John Charles - John went by the name Charles. He married Elizabeth Schaefer and had seven children. Charles is buried in Sedan.
James Dennis - married Anabel Glieden and had on child. They are buried at Tower, MN where their son still lives.
Martha Ann - married John Jung and had three children.
George - never married, railroad conductor Mpls Railway.
Lavina - married Glen Taylor, had three children and they are buried in Belgrade, MN.
Emily Frances - died as a child, buried in Padua.

Annie died on March 23, 1914. She had a heart condition and died from complications. James continued to farm until 1919 when he sold the farm and moved to Brooten. James died on June 10, 1926 from a stroke. After his death, sometime in the 1920's, his estate received the farm back at Padua. It was resold again.

Annie's brother Dennis Egan was married to James' sister, Mary Rooney.

James and Annie's children, George, Martha Ann Young, Emily Frances, and granddaughter Marvel Lucile Rooney are buried in Padua. James' parents, brothers and sisters Catherine Martin, Michael J., Thomas T., William, Mary Egan, Elizabeth Egan, and Annie's brother Dennis Egan are all buried in Padua.

Born ‎2 Jan 1851 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎11 Jul 1895 Miles City, Custer County, Montana Event Description: Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Miles City, MT‎, age 44 years

Born ‎26 Sep 1852 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎6 Dec 1916 Miles City, Custer County, Montana Event Description: perhaps Montana‎, age 64 years
John Rooney, age 17, appears with his parents in the Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota 1870 US census (June 1870), and in the Hartford Township, Todd County, Minnesota 1870 US census (August 1870) helping on the farm of his sister and her husband, John J. and Sarah B. Darcy.

John is next found in the 1880 US Census from Miles City, Custer County, Montana along with a number of other boarders. It says he's married, but no family listed with him. In the 1900 US Census, he's a boarder in Miles City, Custer County, Montana and his occupation is a day laborer. He is listed as single in 1900.

John's death certificate shows that he died Dec 6th, 1916 in Miles City, Montana, and was buried on Dec 8th, 1916 in the Catholic cemetery. His death was reported by his niece, Lillian D'Arcy. He was single.

Born ‎5 Jun 1854 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎27 Jul 1948 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Donatus Catholic Cemetery, Brooten‎, age 94 years, buried Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota
Hugh and Winifred were first cousins.

Hugh M Rooney was born in Ottawa, Canada and immigrated, with his family, to the U.S. about 1864 (or 1869, according to the 1895 census). They moved first to St Anthony Falls, the site of the present city of Minneapolis, which at that time was so small the town could be covered in a half hour by horse and buggy. Hugh attended a parochial school there until they moved to Padua, MN.
In 1889, he was united in marriage to Winifred S Rooney at Sauk Centre, MN. They moved to the farm near Brooten where they made their home until the time of their deaths. Winifred died in1942, at the age of 77 years. Hugh was a lumberman in northern Minnesota for a time, and grew well acquainted with the Indians, learning their languages and customs. He lived also in Montana for a short time, engaged in hunting. Family stories are built around these early days, when his party would often sleep on the ground during the winter, shooting 15 or 20 buffalo before breakfast. At times the Indians would cause trouble, ruining the buffalo skins, terrorizing the men, and breaking up camp .
It would appear that Hugh's cousin Michael W. Rooney probably accompanied him to Montana, as he often talked about hunting buffaloes and being acquainted with the Indians. This was at the time when the locusts ate the farmers' crops and of necessity they had to go elsewhere to earn money.
Farming, however, was Mr Rooney's livelihood, and he practiced it for 60 years. Hugh was 94 years of age at the time of his death and had resided on the homestead five miles west of Brooten for almost 60 years.

Newspaper Article: 9 Jun 1899
Hugh Rooney and Family Narrowly Escape Death by Fire
Bangor township in this county was the scene, on Tuesday evening of last week, of a terrible fire caused by a bolt of lightning, during the rain and thunder storm on that evening, the house of Hugh Rooney of the village of Brooten was struck by lightning and almost instantly burned to the ground. The bolt entered the chimney, scattering the brick all over the lower floor, Mr. Rooney was partially stunned by the shock but recovered his physical and mental activity in an instant and with the assistance of his wife managed to rescue the children who were asleep upstairs, by Mrs. Rooney handling them out through the window from which she afterward jumped herself. In their scant night clothing they made their way in the drenching rain to the house of a neighbor where they were sheltered through the night. Some of the children were obliged to stay in bed the next day until kind neighbors came to their assistance with clothing. Mrs. Rooney who was in a delicate condition, gave birth to a child after reaching the neighbors house, the excitement and exertion no doubt hastening the process of parturition. According to latest report mother and baby as well as the other members of the family were getting along all right. It certainly was a narrow escape from death on part of these people, wither by the electric stroke or the fire it instantly originated. The loss to Mr. Rooney is a severe one, as he is a poor man, but he may consider it a fortune that the lives of his dear ones were saved.
From the Glenwood Herald of June 9, 1899

Cause of death: Cardiac decongestion at age 94. According to his grandson Roland Rooney, Hugh was the last person in Pope County to be "laid out" at home. They placed the casket on two chairs or saw horses in the front parlor. Chairs were set up for mourners paying their respects. Person were assigned to take turns during the night sitting in the parlor with the casket.

A note from probably June 1975, from Ambrose Rooney: He said his sister Helen once asked Hugh Rooney if he'd tell her all about all the old relatives so she could write it down. He said, "Sure," and that he'd come over sometime soon and tell her about them. He died the next week. So this must have been July of 1948.

Born ‎25 Feb 1856 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎1907 Montana‎, age 50 or 51 years
Patrick was born in Quebec, Canada but is in the 1875 census of Raymond Township, Stearns County with his birth family. His marriage is documented and the certificate downloaded. In the 1920 census of Billings, Rose is listed with their son Joseph and she is a widow.

Born ‎6 Jan 1859 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎28 Nov 1925 Sedan, Pope County, Minnesota Event Description: Padua Cemetery, Stearns, Minnesota‎, age 66 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Thomas died at age 66 of heart trouble.

Ellen's grandfather John on the Avon Rooney side, given his date of birth and now in 2017 two instances of DNA matches on Ancestry (including one between David Gaffaney and Andrew Minzghor, who would be a 5C1R), was very probably a brother to Michael Rooney on the Padua Rooney side, making Ellen and her husband Thomas second cousins. That was a stated assumption among the relatives of long ago.

Tom Rooney stuttered except when he swore. He always smoke a pipe. Someone gave him a cigarette, and not being accustomed to it he left it to burn in his mouth. When it got short enough it started burning his whiskers. He said, "Damn your cigarettes!" and never touched another.



Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetery, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

Thomas T. Rooney was born Jan 5, 1859 in Canada, the son of John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. He was ninth child of twelve children.

Ellen (Ellie) Rooney was born October 26, 1872, the daughter of William and Bridget (Hartigan) Rooney, of Avon, MN.

Thomas married Ellie and they had the following children:
Agatha - married Henry Murphy and had three children
Bridget Stella - married Frank Cowen
Clarinda - married Andrew Murphy
William Ryan - adopted son, married Mary Raden
William Joseph - died as an infant
Ellen - died as an infant

Ellie died on June 22, 1902 from blood poisoning (bacterial infection), according to church records.

In 1903 Thomas T. married Anna Murphy, the daughter of Bernard and Honora Murphy.

Thomas T. died on November 28, 1925 from heart disease? as best deciphered from church records.

Ellie, Wm Jos, and Ellen are listed on the tombstone with Thomas R. listed on the grave marker beside them.

Thomas T.'s second wife Anna Murphy Rooney, parents, brothers Michael J., James, William, and sisters Catherine Martin, MaryAnn Egan, Elizabeth Egan, grandmother Catharine Rooney, and many other relatives are buried in Padua

Born ‎29 Oct 1862 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎14 Nov 1938 Raymond Township, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, Padua‎, age 76 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
William was born in Canada and moved to Minneapolis, with his parents, when he was three years old. They lived there three years, and then moved to Raymond township where they homesteaded 160 acres located about 2 1/2 mile southwest of Padua. Their original farm machinery consisted of a breaking plow and a cradle.

William continued to live there for the next 70 years until his death, at age 76 years. From a wilderness of hazel brush and oak trees, the Rooney's, in two generations had built one of the nicest and most modern farm homes in the township. During the first years, Will Rooney, walked from his home to St Cloud, a distance of at least fifty miles, for supplies such as flour, sugar, coffee and salt.

For almost half a century, he served as chairman of the school board in District 7 and was also a director of the creamery board at Padua.

Cause of death: Cerebral thrombosis (Paralysis of right side and muscles of respiration on right); with contributory causes of congestive bronchitis (due to the right sided respiratory paralysis). Scrotal hernia, left side, for 20 years. Ambrose Gaffaney attended his funeral.

ROONEY, WILL

Will Rooney was born October 29, 1863 at Ottawa Canada. His parents were John Rooney and Mary (McCool) Rooney. John and Mary (McCool) Rooney were born in Ireland. They were the parents of the following children: Michael; James; John; Hugh; Patrick; Tom; Will; Mary Anna; Catherine; Sarah; and Lisa.
John and Mary (McCool) Rooney came to Minnesota in 1866 and homesteaded 160 acres of land in Raymond Township, which is now occupied by Will Rooney. His farm machinery consisted of a breaking plow and cradle.
Will Rooney was married to Helene Riedel on April 5, 1889. Her parents were Peter and Mathilda (Schultz) Riedel. Helen Riedel was born in Germany June 7, 1877. There were married in St. Anthony's Catholic Church at Padua by Father Welp.
To this union were born twelve children who are: Edmund J., born March 4, 1900; Joseph D., born October 12, 1901; Felix J. born October 16, 1902; Walter E., born July 29, 1904; Mary Helena, born May 3, 1906; Agnes Mathilda, born September 2, 1908; Emmet W., born June 18, 1910 ; Leo A., born May 10, 1912; Robert G., born August 22, 1914; Howard A., born August 13, 1916; Leonard J., born March 19, 1918; Catherine Marvel, born April 29, 1920. There are thirteen grandchildren. The boys are all farming in Raymond township except Emmet who is a bookkeeper .
Will Rooney has been a member of the school board for forty-five years .
From a wilderness of hazel brush and oak trees the Rooneys, in two generations, have built one of the nicest and most modern farm homes in the township. During the first years Will Rooney walked from his home to St. Cloud, a distance of at least fifty miles, for supplies such as flour, sugar, coffee and salt.
The Rooney family is of the Catholic faith.

Interviewed: Will RooneyDate: September 15, 1936
By: Dorothy Hansmann

Born ‎6 Jan 1865 Wakefield Township, Outaouais, Quebec, Canada, died ‎6 May 1937 Brooten, Stearns County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Padua, Stearns, MN‎, age 72 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Mary died at age 72 of some sort of embolism.


Originally published Tuesday, May 11, 1937, St. Cloud Times

Mrs. Dennis Egan

Mrs. Dennis Egan died May 6 at her home in Brooten, aged 72 years. Her husband died eight years ago.

Mrs. Egan is survived by two brothers, William Rooney, Padua; Hugh Rooney, Sedan; and one adopted son, George Egan, Minneapolis; and two adopted daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Eindlund, Glenwood; and Mrs. William E. Rooney, St. Cloud.

Funeral services were held Saturday morning at St. Donatus church in Brooten and interment was made in the Padua cemetery. Out-of-town relatives attending the services were Mr. and Mrs. Clive Egan, Mr. and Mrs. James Egan, Mr. and Mrs. George Egan, Miss Mary Egan, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Martin, all of Minneapolis; Miss Mabel Rooney, St. Paul; Mr. and Mrs. William Rooney, Emmet Rooney, St. Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rooney, and son, Brainerd; Mrs. Mary Killeen, St. Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Wendlund, and Mrs. Lizabeth Egan, Padua.

Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetry, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

Dennis Egan was born in Canada June 20, 1849. He came to the United States in 1864 when he was 15 years old. Dennis married Mary Ann Rooney, daughter of John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. They farmed in the Padua area until around 1920 when they moved to Brooten and purchased a home there. The farm today is owned by Jerome and Harold Ebensteiner.

Dennis and Mary had a child, Lavinia Egan, who died June 27, 1889. She was six weeks old.

Dennis and Mary adopted four children. One boy, Henry, and two girls, Mary Richards and Eleanor ?, were taken off the orphan train out of New York. The other child was George Egan, a nephew, the son of Elizabeth and Thomas Egan.

Dennis and Mary's daughter, Lavinia, and son, Henry, and wife, Elizabeth, are buried in Padua. Dennis' sister Annie Rooney, along with Mary's parents, brothers and sisters, Catherine Martin, Michael J., James, Thomas T., William, and Elizabeth (Eliza) Egan, are also buried in Padua.

Born ‎8 Nov 1866 Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota Event Description: or 1867, died ‎11 Aug 1904 Bangor Township, Pope County, Minnesota Event Description: St. Anthony of Padua Cemetery, Padua, Stearns, MN‎, age 37 years, buried Padua, Stearns County, Minnesota
Elizabeth, the last-born of her siblings, was the only one not born in Canada. George and Evie Kukowski said there was another sibling named Joseph, born in 1867, who lived only one day. No record has been found.

Elizabeth died in childbirth, as did her baby, her 10th child. Elizabeth and her husband Thomas were first cousins once-removed, both on the Rooney side.


Originally published Friday, August 19, 1904, The Glenwood Herald

Death of Mrs. Thos. Egan

Died on August 11, at her home two miles east of Sedan, Mrs. Eliza Egan, wife of Thomas E. Egan. Deceased was born in St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 9, 1866, and therefore was 38 years of age. Beside the grief stricken husband there remains to mourn her loss, seven children, ranging in age from 15 to 2 years. News of her death came as a great shock, she having only a few hours warning of the approaching end. The heartfelt sympathy of the entire community goes out to the heartbroken husband and father in his hour of great affliction. Funeral services were held at Padua, Saturday, August 13th and the procession was one of the largest that ever followed a dear departed one to the last resting place.

Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetery, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

Thomas E. Egan was born on January 31, 1862, to Patrick and Elinor (Rooney) Egan in Upper Wakefield, Quebec, Canada. He was the oldest of nine children.

Elizabeth (Eliza) Rooney was born November 8, 1866, in St. Paul, MN., to John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. She was the youngest of twelve children.

Thomas Egan married Eliza Rooney on March 5, 1889, in Minneapolis at the church of St. Anthony of Padua. They had ten children: Clarence C., William Edmund (Bill), George F., Cleve, Mary, James Joseph, Mary Ellen, Inez, and two babies that died at birth.

Thomas died in Bangor Township, Pope County, on July 31, 1928. Eliza died August 11, 1904, during childbirth of their tenth child. The baby is buried with her. Thomas and Eliza's children, William E. and Inez, are also buried in Padua.

Thomas' parents, brother Joseph, and Eliza's parents, brothers and sisters, Catherine Martin, Michael J., James, Thomas T., William, and Mary Ann Egan, are buried in Padua.

Born ‎1867, died ‎1867‎