Rooneys-Minnesota - Individuals

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‎Mary Ann Killeen‏‎, 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 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. Married ‎1880 Stearns County, Minnesota, age 19 or 20 years (married approximately 10 years) to: ‎Michael "FLAVIN" Flavin‏‎, age by marriage approximately 22 years 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. Children: 1. ‎Walter 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. ‎Maybelle 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. ‎Thomas 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. ‎Catherine 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. ‎Grace 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.

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2nd marriage ‎Mary Ann Killeen‏‎, daughter of Patrick Bunam "Bunam Patrick" Killeen and Catherine E "Catharine on gravestone" Rooney‏. Married ‎18 Oct 1893 Helena, Lewis And Clarke, Montana, age 33 years (married 32 or 33 years) to: ‎Leslie A McKinney‏‎, age by marriage 22 years Born ‎Feb 1871 Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, died ‎1926 Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana Event Description: Resurrection Cemetery‎, age 54 or 55 years His middle initial may have been "A," "W," or "F." It's "A" on his gravestone. Children: 1. ‎Lucy M McKinney‏‎ Born ‎6 Nov 1895 Lewis And Clark County, Montana, died ‎20 Jan 1977 Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California‎, age 81 years Lucy married William Smith of Rolla, MT in Helena, MT in October 1917. She met him when she went into the shoe store where he worked in Helena, MT. Apparently, it was love at first sight because she quickly invited him out to the ranch. They moved to Boise, ID after their marriage and he worked in a shoe store there. Their first daughter, Mary Lou was born there. They then moved to Pocatello, ID where he managed a shoe store for the same people he worked for in Boise. The other three children were born there. William eventually owned two shoe stores at different times in Pocatello. In 1952, they moved to Long Beach. Both are buried in All Souls cemetery in Pocatello.. 2. ‎George Leslie "Leslie" McKinney‏‎ Born ‎22 Mar 1899 Lewis And Clark County, Montana, died ‎6 Nov 1929 Livingston, Park County, Montana Event Description: Resurrection Cemetery‎, age 30 years, buried Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana George died in St. Peter's Hospital in Livingston of typhoid fever, with pneumonia contributing. 3. ‎Leonard Harris McKinney‏‎ Born ‎1905 Lewis And Clark, Montana, USA, died ‎18 Jun 1945 Missoula, Missoula County, Montana‎, age 39 or 40 years, buried Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana According to his marriage certificate, Leonard senior's middle name is Harris. According to his son's marriage certificate, Leonard senior's middle name is Howard. He was a rancher and died in Northern Pacific Hospital in Missoula where he was taken after suddenly becoming ill . The death notice has his middle name as Howard, as do most online family trees.