Jas. Edwd. Aloysius I is a son of Francis J. "Frank" and Mary "Mae" (nee Haskins) Cullen-McElroy-Corrigan. He had light red hair. During the time of his father's life, after marriage, per my brother Jimmy, The Cullen Family, had lived on Wincester Avenue in The Bronx. Jimmy subsequently uncovered his World War I draft registration showing the correct address to be 578 Westchester Avenue. Refer to his older sister May’s memorial for in-depth details about their residency at that address. For an interesting historical tidbit about a famous Aloysius when James was a kid refer to the Edward Cullen memorial (#19874448).
Relative to Edward’s memorial is the childhood memory I have of our father mentioning his grandfather was an invalid (in-va-lid). Being in my pre-teen years, this was a somewhat novel word to me although I knew I heard it before. I recall asking him about it because in my mind’s eye I visualized the same as “in-val-id”” and wanted to know what he meant. If I recall correctly he told me it was someone who’s crippled. That got injured in the Civil War. I think I then asked ‘like Old Man Mr. Cronin”? Who I was told had a wooden leg. He told me something like that, that there’s different ways to be crippled. So, to this date, I’ve yet to frame a picture of who was the “in-va-lid” and how he was “in-val-id”. I mention this now, as the memory came to the forefront, and was answered, when coming across an 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War listing Edward as deceased and his wife Sarah “widow of”. This in turn lead me along a pursuit that found several Veterans Administration Pension Cards, one of which expressly stating “invalid” filed on 1865 May 3, certificate no. 43542 for Edward Cullen Company 10 NY Infantry. The same card subsequently notes Edward dies 11-29-88 (as in 1888), as well as an 1890 Sep 22 filing date by Widow, application no. 494615, certificate no. 327243. It all fell into place in my mind. Certainly one less thing to piece together and a pleasant memory of a childhood visualization process now a straightened out mental construct.
As for Old Man John Cronin, who was like 92 years old, my Dad had arranged for a NY Daily News photographer to take a picture of me as a small boy, after a snow storm, throwing a snowball toward the back of him (he was wearing a long black coat and derby like hat - he was a fine dresser with a nice, full, big white mustache) while he and my Dad were walking down Greenpoint Avenue from Tomkins Park Street. I may have been 7 at the time. I’m pretty sure it was the Daily News and not the Daily Mirror or Long Island Star Journal.
I use to like walking with my Dad on his way to work in the evening, after he didn’t have the bar & grill anymore and our Mom had passed on. I liked it because he walked nice and fast and it made me feel good to be just off to his left side. I have that feeling to this day, as I do about him rubbing my hair with his hand. A nice tear from a fond memory. I rub my son’s hair in like manner.
Sonny's maternal uncle is Mattie Haskins (b. 1886 - d. 1930, pneumonia, refer to memorial # 102161743 for his Sonny’s mom, Mary Ellen, for further details), a popular NYC Irish tenor out of Dublin, who had many Irish Ballad recordings in the mid-1920s. Some were recorded at the famed Liederkranz Hall (111-119 East 58th Street, east of Park Avenue) for its' acoustics. He was regularly heard over the radio waves broadcasted out of the Roosevelt Hotel, the "Grand Dame of Madison Avenue", which opened in 1924; before Guy Lombardo's premier at the Roosevelt Grill Oct. 3, 1929, just before the stock market crash. It was from here that Lombardo created the tradition of playing "Auld Lang Syne". Radio records were "the medium" of these times - "the roaring 20s". These are the times when men were men and woman, well women were “flappers”. Think short hair, cloche hats, cigarette smoking, long slinky styled dresses/skirts and the Charleston. Mattie's recordings were on 10" Victor Program Transcriptions played at a 33 rpm speed (revolutions per minute); not the 78 rpm's that were being standardized around the same 1925-1930 period.
Sonny is brother to May (Mary) Napoleon (1914-1975, Memorial# 104085460) and Francis "Frank" J. Cullen (1918-1979, Memorial# 542646), John "Johnny" (1920-1991, Memorial# 103754692), Anna (1922-1934, Memorial# 103722901) and Eugene McElroy (1924-1997, Memorial# 975215) and Joan Corrigan Walker (1931-1990, Memorial# 103993155).
From time of birth until early 1919, when he was still a young boy, Sonny had lived with his mom and dad and sister Mary “May” at 578 Westchester Avenue, just in from St. Ann's Avenue by 149th Street, down from Eagle Avenue, North New York in The Bronx.
He was baptized some eighteen (18) days after his birth on the 16th of January 1916 at St. Roch's Church. St. Roch's was organized in 1899 and incorporated on November 29th, 1899. Services were in an unused church at 150th Street and Jackson Avenue up until 1932. Since then until the present, St. Roch's has been at 524 Wales Avenue, between 147th & 149th Streets, Bronx, NY. His Godfather is William E. Nelson and his Godmother is Susie Cullen. Bill Nelson is the husband of Catherine “Kitty” Cullen Nelson, the daughter of Sonny’s paternal grandfather Edward and next older sibling of his dad Frank – their birthdays 2 years 2 days apart. Susie Cullen was the next oldest surviving sister of Frank’s and Catherine’s. Susie would soon be Mrs. Edwin J. Dorgan. They all lived within blocks of each other in the North New York neighborhood of the Bronx. An exploded view of a part copy of a 1909 Bronx street map denoted to indicate their respective addresses can be viewed with Susan M Cullen Dorgan’s memorial no. 19874347.
Our brother Jimmy told me that our dad’s birth name is from his maternal grandfather James Haskins and his paternal grandfather Edward Cullen; thus, James Edward. This makes perfect sense to me. As to his Confirmation name he selected Aloysius. Given that he was educated through the Roman Catholic School System in New York, he may well have selected the name from Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S.J. Fr. Cullen was born in the Town of New Ross, Co. Wexford on Oct. 23, 1841 and passed away in Dublin on December 6, 1921). He attended the Jesuit secondary school (high school) at Clongowes Wood College by Claen in Co. Kildare. Architectural this school is a castle – it was built by Stuart Cullen (an Anglo-Norman warrior). Father Cullen was noted clergyman throughout Ireland. He was known for his temperance movement efforts. He’s been described as a loyal and devout Jesuit. However, he shied away from the typical schoolmaster role and focused on helping the poor, living his life in poverty and obedience. From a memoriam to him in the August 30, 1924 issue of The Tablet by Rev. Lambert McKenna S.J.: “It was in 1862 - two years before ordination - that a chance encounter with a priest who was evidently not a teetotaler set his mind in the direction of that temperance reform which was to loom so large throughout his life.” The IrishTimes in their history of surnames notes that he founded “the Irish Messenger in 1888 and the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in 1898. At their height, the Pioneers had a membership of over 300,000.” Sonny would have made his confirmation in about a few years after the passing of Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S.J.
Jas. Edwd. I went to Xavier High School, a renowned Jesuit school between 5th and 6th. Aves., on 16th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, NYC, New York. Some years later, he went through army officer training. Jas. Edwd. was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW II, serving in the Aleutians, performing logistics, recon and intelligence work.
In his early teens, he was an errand boy for an insurance company, and later on an apartment building doorman, which probably well-suited his outward personality and ability to talk with others about different things. He was also an elevator operator. Back in those days, elevators were essential machinery requiring a human operator, not like later developed fully automated mechanized equipment. Like his younger brothers, Frankie, Johnny and Eugene, Jim was entrepreneurial, having started and owning a carpentry business with the motto “No Job Too Small”, and also owned bars and grills. Sonny also enjoyed deer and rabbit hunting, as does his son Kevin.
He married Ann Jane McElroy on January 16, 1942. She’s formally, Anna Jeanette Cullen, commonly called Annie, named after her paternal aunt Anne Jane and likely her mother's sister Annie. My brother Jimmy tracked down their wedding ceremony to St. Francis De Sales in Riverside, California. Jimmy noted that our Dad was temporarily stationed there before being deployed to the Aleutian Islands, which extend westerly from the northerly Alaskan coastline toward Russia and Japan. I subsequently obtained a copy of their Marriage Certificate, certifying that the Holy Sacrament of Marriage between James Edward Cullen and Anna Jeanette McElroy were officiated by Fr. Francis Widlock, O.M.C. (Order of Merciful Christ) in the presence of Raymond Blessing and Margaret McCarthy.
Among other things, our brother Jimmy had the patience and tenacity to track down certain copies of our Dad’s military records. Our Dad originally enlisted on January 21, 1941 at the age of 25-1/12, blue eyes, hair is listed as “blond” (actually it was more a strawberry blonde – like our niece Anya Sinead), ruddy complexion and was 5 ft. 11-1/4 inches in height. His weight was 180 lbs. In 1943 he was an Army Second Lieutenant and was subsequently appointed Captain. He served in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. As an aside, Anne's father, Michael, also was a red head.
In July of 1945 James Edward earned the Army’ Alaskan Department Certificate of Commendable Service, which was awarded by Brigadier General (1 star) R.E. Mittelstaedt, Commanding Fort Richardson (where he was stationed in Alaska), and Lieutenant General (3 stars) Delos C. Emmons, U.S. Army Commanding. On October 6, 1945, he was offered appointment as an office in the Reserve Corps by Major General (2 stars) Edward F. Witsell, acting as the Adjunct General. Our Dad then accepted and certified same upon receipt of Army Service Forces document issued by Infantry Colonel (full bird) G.B. Appelman, of same date.
His Separation Qualification Record, dated 26 December 1945, states that he “At times had command and staff authority over as many as 1,000 men, being responsible for their employment, mess, barracks facilities, their morale, discipline, personal problems, transportation, furloughs, health and general welfare; directing and supervising administrative procedures, and interpreting directives and policies to the command. Maintained liaison with personnel and other divisions in affecting disposition of individual personnel.” I remember as a child hearing that when our Dad got out the service he was for a while an acting major, something along the lines of a Brevet Major. Having read this document it now makes sense as a Captain oversees a Company, that is, usually up to 250 soldiers. He was separated at Separation Point, Camp Haan, California. His permanent home address at the time was recorded as 50-01 47th Street, Woodside, Long Island, New York. This was Poppa and Nana McElroy’s house – our maternal grandparents (link with wife Ann Jane McElroy Cullen); front door faces 47th Street, side of house extends along 50th Avenue.
He was discharged from the Officers’ Reserve Corps and the army of the United States effective 22 December 1952, issued out of Headquarters First Army, Governors Island, New York 4, N.Y. (they didn’t have zip codes back then, just a simple postal code). This was 9 months and two days after the birth of our brother Kevin. Our address at the time was shown as 47-21 44th Street, Woodside, LI, New York. His discharge papers were finally processed on January 7, 1953 and were sent out of New York Military District, 90 Church Street, New York 7, N.Y., his Honorable Discharge Certificate was included with the transmittal.
His address was actually in Sunnyside, not Woodside, although they were both used interchangeably because we were near the borderline of each. In clockwise fashion, Sunnyside is bounded by the neighborhoods of Woodside, Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Blissville, Dutch Kills, Hunters Point and Astoria. Up until 1908, part of Sunnyside and all of these neighborhoods, with the exception of Woodside comprised Long Island City. This is the same address where our father’s brother Uncle Johnny had to scale the outside front of the building and walk along the edge to get into a couple of years earlier as my cradle was wedged against the door. From what I heard my older brothers Jimmy and Larry were playing around with me and my cradle fell, with me in it, against the door, closing it and preventing it from being opened. Jimmy and Larry would have been around nearly 3 and 2 years of age at the time.
Jim and Anne have five sons: Jas. Edwd. A. (II), Lawrence Vincent Eugene (09/11/1948 - 11/25/2012), Daniel Michael Jas., Kevin Francis Patrick (somewhat darker red hair than father) and Francis Jos. Jas. The three oldest were born in Manhattan, while the two youngest were born in Flushing Hospital, Queens County, NYC. They were all reared during childhood in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens County, NYC, NY, which borders 1st Calvary in the Long Island City neighborhood and 2nd and 3rd Calvary in the Woodside postal neighborhood, all in Queens County, NYC, NY. The boys attended St. Teresa's parochial grammar school (grades 1 through 8), which was taught by Sparkill Dominicans (Sisters of St. Dominic) in the 1950s. The pastor at the time was Father Geo. Morrow. According to church records the Dominicans left in 1974.
He is Grandfather to: (Jas. Edwd. A. II) Christine, Jacqueline and Jas. E. III; (Lawrence V.) Anya Sinead (strawberry red-blonde) and Patrick L. (somewhat darker red head, although not as dark as Sonny’s brother Frank) - a 2015 graduate of Xavier H.S. and Jr. ROTC; (Daniel Mich. Jas.) Daniel Mich. Jas. II, Natalie-Anne Sinead; (Kevin F. P.): Ann Marie, Kevin F. II; and (Francis Jos. Jas. Sr.) James, Frankie Jr., Terence M. Cullen.
Relative to Edward’s memorial is the childhood memory I have of our father mentioning his grandfather was an invalid (in-va-lid). Being in my pre-teen years, this was a somewhat novel word to me although I knew I heard it before. I recall asking him about it because in my mind’s eye I visualized the same as “in-val-id”” and wanted to know what he meant. If I recall correctly he told me it was someone who’s crippled. That got injured in the Civil War. I think I then asked ‘like Old Man Mr. Cronin”? Who I was told had a wooden leg. He told me something like that, that there’s different ways to be crippled. So, to this date, I’ve yet to frame a picture of who was the “in-va-lid” and how he was “in-val-id”. I mention this now, as the memory came to the forefront, and was answered, when coming across an 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War listing Edward as deceased and his wife Sarah “widow of”. This in turn lead me along a pursuit that found several Veterans Administration Pension Cards, one of which expressly stating “invalid” filed on 1865 May 3, certificate no. 43542 for Edward Cullen Company 10 NY Infantry. The same card subsequently notes Edward dies 11-29-88 (as in 1888), as well as an 1890 Sep 22 filing date by Widow, application no. 494615, certificate no. 327243. It all fell into place in my mind. Certainly one less thing to piece together and a pleasant memory of a childhood visualization process now a straightened out mental construct.
As for Old Man John Cronin, who was like 92 years old, my Dad had arranged for a NY Daily News photographer to take a picture of me as a small boy, after a snow storm, throwing a snowball toward the back of him (he was wearing a long black coat and derby like hat - he was a fine dresser with a nice, full, big white mustache) while he and my Dad were walking down Greenpoint Avenue from Tomkins Park Street. I may have been 7 at the time. I’m pretty sure it was the Daily News and not the Daily Mirror or Long Island Star Journal.
I use to like walking with my Dad on his way to work in the evening, after he didn’t have the bar & grill anymore and our Mom had passed on. I liked it because he walked nice and fast and it made me feel good to be just off to his left side. I have that feeling to this day, as I do about him rubbing my hair with his hand. A nice tear from a fond memory. I rub my son’s hair in like manner.
Sonny's maternal uncle is Mattie Haskins (b. 1886 - d. 1930, pneumonia, refer to memorial # 102161743 for his Sonny’s mom, Mary Ellen, for further details), a popular NYC Irish tenor out of Dublin, who had many Irish Ballad recordings in the mid-1920s. Some were recorded at the famed Liederkranz Hall (111-119 East 58th Street, east of Park Avenue) for its' acoustics. He was regularly heard over the radio waves broadcasted out of the Roosevelt Hotel, the "Grand Dame of Madison Avenue", which opened in 1924; before Guy Lombardo's premier at the Roosevelt Grill Oct. 3, 1929, just before the stock market crash. It was from here that Lombardo created the tradition of playing "Auld Lang Syne". Radio records were "the medium" of these times - "the roaring 20s". These are the times when men were men and woman, well women were “flappers”. Think short hair, cloche hats, cigarette smoking, long slinky styled dresses/skirts and the Charleston. Mattie's recordings were on 10" Victor Program Transcriptions played at a 33 rpm speed (revolutions per minute); not the 78 rpm's that were being standardized around the same 1925-1930 period.
Sonny is brother to May (Mary) Napoleon (1914-1975, Memorial# 104085460) and Francis "Frank" J. Cullen (1918-1979, Memorial# 542646), John "Johnny" (1920-1991, Memorial# 103754692), Anna (1922-1934, Memorial# 103722901) and Eugene McElroy (1924-1997, Memorial# 975215) and Joan Corrigan Walker (1931-1990, Memorial# 103993155).
From time of birth until early 1919, when he was still a young boy, Sonny had lived with his mom and dad and sister Mary “May” at 578 Westchester Avenue, just in from St. Ann's Avenue by 149th Street, down from Eagle Avenue, North New York in The Bronx.
He was baptized some eighteen (18) days after his birth on the 16th of January 1916 at St. Roch's Church. St. Roch's was organized in 1899 and incorporated on November 29th, 1899. Services were in an unused church at 150th Street and Jackson Avenue up until 1932. Since then until the present, St. Roch's has been at 524 Wales Avenue, between 147th & 149th Streets, Bronx, NY. His Godfather is William E. Nelson and his Godmother is Susie Cullen. Bill Nelson is the husband of Catherine “Kitty” Cullen Nelson, the daughter of Sonny’s paternal grandfather Edward and next older sibling of his dad Frank – their birthdays 2 years 2 days apart. Susie Cullen was the next oldest surviving sister of Frank’s and Catherine’s. Susie would soon be Mrs. Edwin J. Dorgan. They all lived within blocks of each other in the North New York neighborhood of the Bronx. An exploded view of a part copy of a 1909 Bronx street map denoted to indicate their respective addresses can be viewed with Susan M Cullen Dorgan’s memorial no. 19874347.
Our brother Jimmy told me that our dad’s birth name is from his maternal grandfather James Haskins and his paternal grandfather Edward Cullen; thus, James Edward. This makes perfect sense to me. As to his Confirmation name he selected Aloysius. Given that he was educated through the Roman Catholic School System in New York, he may well have selected the name from Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S.J. Fr. Cullen was born in the Town of New Ross, Co. Wexford on Oct. 23, 1841 and passed away in Dublin on December 6, 1921). He attended the Jesuit secondary school (high school) at Clongowes Wood College by Claen in Co. Kildare. Architectural this school is a castle – it was built by Stuart Cullen (an Anglo-Norman warrior). Father Cullen was noted clergyman throughout Ireland. He was known for his temperance movement efforts. He’s been described as a loyal and devout Jesuit. However, he shied away from the typical schoolmaster role and focused on helping the poor, living his life in poverty and obedience. From a memoriam to him in the August 30, 1924 issue of The Tablet by Rev. Lambert McKenna S.J.: “It was in 1862 - two years before ordination - that a chance encounter with a priest who was evidently not a teetotaler set his mind in the direction of that temperance reform which was to loom so large throughout his life.” The IrishTimes in their history of surnames notes that he founded “the Irish Messenger in 1888 and the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in 1898. At their height, the Pioneers had a membership of over 300,000.” Sonny would have made his confirmation in about a few years after the passing of Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S.J.
Jas. Edwd. I went to Xavier High School, a renowned Jesuit school between 5th and 6th. Aves., on 16th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, NYC, New York. Some years later, he went through army officer training. Jas. Edwd. was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW II, serving in the Aleutians, performing logistics, recon and intelligence work.
In his early teens, he was an errand boy for an insurance company, and later on an apartment building doorman, which probably well-suited his outward personality and ability to talk with others about different things. He was also an elevator operator. Back in those days, elevators were essential machinery requiring a human operator, not like later developed fully automated mechanized equipment. Like his younger brothers, Frankie, Johnny and Eugene, Jim was entrepreneurial, having started and owning a carpentry business with the motto “No Job Too Small”, and also owned bars and grills. Sonny also enjoyed deer and rabbit hunting, as does his son Kevin.
He married Ann Jane McElroy on January 16, 1942. She’s formally, Anna Jeanette Cullen, commonly called Annie, named after her paternal aunt Anne Jane and likely her mother's sister Annie. My brother Jimmy tracked down their wedding ceremony to St. Francis De Sales in Riverside, California. Jimmy noted that our Dad was temporarily stationed there before being deployed to the Aleutian Islands, which extend westerly from the northerly Alaskan coastline toward Russia and Japan. I subsequently obtained a copy of their Marriage Certificate, certifying that the Holy Sacrament of Marriage between James Edward Cullen and Anna Jeanette McElroy were officiated by Fr. Francis Widlock, O.M.C. (Order of Merciful Christ) in the presence of Raymond Blessing and Margaret McCarthy.
Among other things, our brother Jimmy had the patience and tenacity to track down certain copies of our Dad’s military records. Our Dad originally enlisted on January 21, 1941 at the age of 25-1/12, blue eyes, hair is listed as “blond” (actually it was more a strawberry blonde – like our niece Anya Sinead), ruddy complexion and was 5 ft. 11-1/4 inches in height. His weight was 180 lbs. In 1943 he was an Army Second Lieutenant and was subsequently appointed Captain. He served in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. As an aside, Anne's father, Michael, also was a red head.
In July of 1945 James Edward earned the Army’ Alaskan Department Certificate of Commendable Service, which was awarded by Brigadier General (1 star) R.E. Mittelstaedt, Commanding Fort Richardson (where he was stationed in Alaska), and Lieutenant General (3 stars) Delos C. Emmons, U.S. Army Commanding. On October 6, 1945, he was offered appointment as an office in the Reserve Corps by Major General (2 stars) Edward F. Witsell, acting as the Adjunct General. Our Dad then accepted and certified same upon receipt of Army Service Forces document issued by Infantry Colonel (full bird) G.B. Appelman, of same date.
His Separation Qualification Record, dated 26 December 1945, states that he “At times had command and staff authority over as many as 1,000 men, being responsible for their employment, mess, barracks facilities, their morale, discipline, personal problems, transportation, furloughs, health and general welfare; directing and supervising administrative procedures, and interpreting directives and policies to the command. Maintained liaison with personnel and other divisions in affecting disposition of individual personnel.” I remember as a child hearing that when our Dad got out the service he was for a while an acting major, something along the lines of a Brevet Major. Having read this document it now makes sense as a Captain oversees a Company, that is, usually up to 250 soldiers. He was separated at Separation Point, Camp Haan, California. His permanent home address at the time was recorded as 50-01 47th Street, Woodside, Long Island, New York. This was Poppa and Nana McElroy’s house – our maternal grandparents (link with wife Ann Jane McElroy Cullen); front door faces 47th Street, side of house extends along 50th Avenue.
He was discharged from the Officers’ Reserve Corps and the army of the United States effective 22 December 1952, issued out of Headquarters First Army, Governors Island, New York 4, N.Y. (they didn’t have zip codes back then, just a simple postal code). This was 9 months and two days after the birth of our brother Kevin. Our address at the time was shown as 47-21 44th Street, Woodside, LI, New York. His discharge papers were finally processed on January 7, 1953 and were sent out of New York Military District, 90 Church Street, New York 7, N.Y., his Honorable Discharge Certificate was included with the transmittal.
His address was actually in Sunnyside, not Woodside, although they were both used interchangeably because we were near the borderline of each. In clockwise fashion, Sunnyside is bounded by the neighborhoods of Woodside, Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Blissville, Dutch Kills, Hunters Point and Astoria. Up until 1908, part of Sunnyside and all of these neighborhoods, with the exception of Woodside comprised Long Island City. This is the same address where our father’s brother Uncle Johnny had to scale the outside front of the building and walk along the edge to get into a couple of years earlier as my cradle was wedged against the door. From what I heard my older brothers Jimmy and Larry were playing around with me and my cradle fell, with me in it, against the door, closing it and preventing it from being opened. Jimmy and Larry would have been around nearly 3 and 2 years of age at the time.
Jim and Anne have five sons: Jas. Edwd. A. (II), Lawrence Vincent Eugene (09/11/1948 - 11/25/2012), Daniel Michael Jas., Kevin Francis Patrick (somewhat darker red hair than father) and Francis Jos. Jas. The three oldest were born in Manhattan, while the two youngest were born in Flushing Hospital, Queens County, NYC. They were all reared during childhood in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens County, NYC, NY, which borders 1st Calvary in the Long Island City neighborhood and 2nd and 3rd Calvary in the Woodside postal neighborhood, all in Queens County, NYC, NY. The boys attended St. Teresa's parochial grammar school (grades 1 through 8), which was taught by Sparkill Dominicans (Sisters of St. Dominic) in the 1950s. The pastor at the time was Father Geo. Morrow. According to church records the Dominicans left in 1974.
He is Grandfather to: (Jas. Edwd. A. II) Christine, Jacqueline and Jas. E. III; (Lawrence V.) Anya Sinead (strawberry red-blonde) and Patrick L. (somewhat darker red head, although not as dark as Sonny’s brother Frank) - a 2015 graduate of Xavier H.S. and Jr. ROTC; (Daniel Mich. Jas.) Daniel Mich. Jas. II, Natalie-Anne Sinead; (Kevin F. P.): Ann Marie, Kevin F. II; and (Francis Jos. Jas. Sr.) James, Frankie Jr., Terence M. Cullen.
Jas. Edwd. Aloysius I is a son of Francis J. "Frank" and Mary "Mae" (nee Haskins) Cullen-McElroy-Corrigan. He had light red hair. During the time of his father's life, after marriage, per my brother Jimmy, The Cullen Family, had lived on Wincester Avenue in The Bronx. Jimmy subsequently uncovered his World War I draft registration showing the correct address to be 578 Westchester Avenue. Refer to his older sister May’s memorial for in-depth details about their residency at that address. For an interesting historical tidbit about a famous Aloysius when James was a kid refer to the Edward Cullen memorial (#19874448).
Relative to Edward’s memorial is the childhood memory I have of our father mentioning his grandfather was an invalid (in-va-lid). Being in my pre-teen years, this was a somewhat novel word to me although I knew I heard it before. I recall asking him about it because in my mind’s eye I visualized the same as “in-val-id”” and wanted to know what he meant. If I recall correctly he told me it was someone who’s crippled. That got injured in the Civil War. I think I then asked ‘like Old Man Mr. Cronin”? Who I was told had a wooden leg. He told me something like that, that there’s different ways to be crippled. So, to this date, I’ve yet to frame a picture of who was the “in-va-lid” and how he was “in-val-id”. I mention this now, as the memory came to the forefront, and was answered, when coming across an 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War listing Edward as deceased and his wife Sarah “widow of”. This in turn lead me along a pursuit that found several Veterans Administration Pension Cards, one of which expressly stating “invalid” filed on 1865 May 3, certificate no. 43542 for Edward Cullen Company 10 NY Infantry. The same card subsequently notes Edward dies 11-29-88 (as in 1888), as well as an 1890 Sep 22 filing date by Widow, application no. 494615, certificate no. 327243. It all fell into place in my mind. Certainly one less thing to piece together and a pleasant memory of a childhood visualization process now a straightened out mental construct.
As for Old Man John Cronin, who was like 92 years old, my Dad had arranged for a NY Daily News photographer to take a picture of me as a small boy, after a snow storm, throwing a snowball toward the back of him (he was wearing a long black coat and derby like hat - he was a fine dresser with a nice, full, big white mustache) while he and my Dad were walking down Greenpoint Avenue from Tomkins Park Street. I may have been 7 at the time. I’m pretty sure it was the Daily News and not the Daily Mirror or Long Island Star Journal.
I use to like walking with my Dad on his way to work in the evening, after he didn’t have the bar & grill anymore and our Mom had passed on. I liked it because he walked nice and fast and it made me feel good to be just off to his left side. I have that feeling to this day, as I do about him rubbing my hair with his hand. A nice tear from a fond memory. I rub my son’s hair in like manner.
Sonny's maternal uncle is Mattie Haskins (b. 1886 - d. 1930, pneumonia, refer to memorial # 102161743 for his Sonny’s mom, Mary Ellen, for further details), a popular NYC Irish tenor out of Dublin, who had many Irish Ballad recordings in the mid-1920s. Some were recorded at the famed Liederkranz Hall (111-119 East 58th Street, east of Park Avenue) for its' acoustics. He was regularly heard over the radio waves broadcasted out of the Roosevelt Hotel, the "Grand Dame of Madison Avenue", which opened in 1924; before Guy Lombardo's premier at the Roosevelt Grill Oct. 3, 1929, just before the stock market crash. It was from here that Lombardo created the tradition of playing "Auld Lang Syne". Radio records were "the medium" of these times - "the roaring 20s". These are the times when men were men and woman, well women were “flappers”. Think short hair, cloche hats, cigarette smoking, long slinky styled dresses/skirts and the Charleston. Mattie's recordings were on 10" Victor Program Transcriptions played at a 33 rpm speed (revolutions per minute); not the 78 rpm's that were being standardized around the same 1925-1930 period.
Sonny is brother to May (Mary) Napoleon (1914-1975, Memorial# 104085460) and Francis "Frank" J. Cullen (1918-1979, Memorial# 542646), John "Johnny" (1920-1991, Memorial# 103754692), Anna (1922-1934, Memorial# 103722901) and Eugene McElroy (1924-1997, Memorial# 975215) and Joan Corrigan Walker (1931-1990, Memorial# 103993155).
From time of birth until early 1919, when he was still a young boy, Sonny had lived with his mom and dad and sister Mary “May” at 578 Westchester Avenue, just in from St. Ann's Avenue by 149th Street, down from Eagle Avenue, North New York in The Bronx.
He was baptized some eighteen (18) days after his birth on the 16th of January 1916 at St. Roch's Church. St. Roch's was organized in 1899 and incorporated on November 29th, 1899. Services were in an unused church at 150th Street and Jackson Avenue up until 1932. Since then until the present, St. Roch's has been at 524 Wales Avenue, between 147th & 149th Streets, Bronx, NY. His Godfather is William E. Nelson and his Godmother is Susie Cullen. Bill Nelson is the husband of Catherine “Kitty” Cullen Nelson, the daughter of Sonny’s paternal grandfather Edward and next older sibling of his dad Frank – their birthdays 2 years 2 days apart. Susie Cullen was the next oldest surviving sister of Frank’s and Catherine’s. Susie would soon be Mrs. Edwin J. Dorgan. They all lived within blocks of each other in the North New York neighborhood of the Bronx. An exploded view of a part copy of a 1909 Bronx street map denoted to indicate their respective addresses can be viewed with Susan M Cullen Dorgan’s memorial no. 19874347.
Our brother Jimmy told me that our dad’s birth name is from his maternal grandfather James Haskins and his paternal grandfather Edward Cullen; thus, James Edward. This makes perfect sense to me. As to his Confirmation name he selected Aloysius. Given that he was educated through the Roman Catholic School System in New York, he may well have selected the name from Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S.J. Fr. Cullen was born in the Town of New Ross, Co. Wexford on Oct. 23, 1841 and passed away in Dublin on December 6, 1921). He attended the Jesuit secondary school (high school) at Clongowes Wood College by Claen in Co. Kildare. Architectural this school is a castle – it was built by Stuart Cullen (an Anglo-Norman warrior). Father Cullen was noted clergyman throughout Ireland. He was known for his temperance movement efforts. He’s been described as a loyal and devout Jesuit. However, he shied away from the typical schoolmaster role and focused on helping the poor, living his life in poverty and obedience. From a memoriam to him in the August 30, 1924 issue of The Tablet by Rev. Lambert McKenna S.J.: “It was in 1862 - two years before ordination - that a chance encounter with a priest who was evidently not a teetotaler set his mind in the direction of that temperance reform which was to loom so large throughout his life.” The IrishTimes in their history of surnames notes that he founded “the Irish Messenger in 1888 and the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in 1898. At their height, the Pioneers had a membership of over 300,000.” Sonny would have made his confirmation in about a few years after the passing of Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S.J.
Jas. Edwd. I went to Xavier High School, a renowned Jesuit school between 5th and 6th. Aves., on 16th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, NYC, New York. Some years later, he went through army officer training. Jas. Edwd. was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW II, serving in the Aleutians, performing logistics, recon and intelligence work.
In his early teens, he was an errand boy for an insurance company, and later on an apartment building doorman, which probably well-suited his outward personality and ability to talk with others about different things. He was also an elevator operator. Back in those days, elevators were essential machinery requiring a human operator, not like later developed fully automated mechanized equipment. Like his younger brothers, Frankie, Johnny and Eugene, Jim was entrepreneurial, having started and owning a carpentry business with the motto “No Job Too Small”, and also owned bars and grills. Sonny also enjoyed deer and rabbit hunting, as does his son Kevin.
He married Ann Jane McElroy on January 16, 1942. She’s formally, Anna Jeanette Cullen, commonly called Annie, named after her paternal aunt Anne Jane and likely her mother's sister Annie. My brother Jimmy tracked down their wedding ceremony to St. Francis De Sales in Riverside, California. Jimmy noted that our Dad was temporarily stationed there before being deployed to the Aleutian Islands, which extend westerly from the northerly Alaskan coastline toward Russia and Japan. I subsequently obtained a copy of their Marriage Certificate, certifying that the Holy Sacrament of Marriage between James Edward Cullen and Anna Jeanette McElroy were officiated by Fr. Francis Widlock, O.M.C. (Order of Merciful Christ) in the presence of Raymond Blessing and Margaret McCarthy.
Among other things, our brother Jimmy had the patience and tenacity to track down certain copies of our Dad’s military records. Our Dad originally enlisted on January 21, 1941 at the age of 25-1/12, blue eyes, hair is listed as “blond” (actually it was more a strawberry blonde – like our niece Anya Sinead), ruddy complexion and was 5 ft. 11-1/4 inches in height. His weight was 180 lbs. In 1943 he was an Army Second Lieutenant and was subsequently appointed Captain. He served in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. As an aside, Anne's father, Michael, also was a red head.
In July of 1945 James Edward earned the Army’ Alaskan Department Certificate of Commendable Service, which was awarded by Brigadier General (1 star) R.E. Mittelstaedt, Commanding Fort Richardson (where he was stationed in Alaska), and Lieutenant General (3 stars) Delos C. Emmons, U.S. Army Commanding. On October 6, 1945, he was offered appointment as an office in the Reserve Corps by Major General (2 stars) Edward F. Witsell, acting as the Adjunct General. Our Dad then accepted and certified same upon receipt of Army Service Forces document issued by Infantry Colonel (full bird) G.B. Appelman, of same date.
His Separation Qualification Record, dated 26 December 1945, states that he “At times had command and staff authority over as many as 1,000 men, being responsible for their employment, mess, barracks facilities, their morale, discipline, personal problems, transportation, furloughs, health and general welfare; directing and supervising administrative procedures, and interpreting directives and policies to the command. Maintained liaison with personnel and other divisions in affecting disposition of individual personnel.” I remember as a child hearing that when our Dad got out the service he was for a while an acting major, something along the lines of a Brevet Major. Having read this document it now makes sense as a Captain oversees a Company, that is, usually up to 250 soldiers. He was separated at Separation Point, Camp Haan, California. His permanent home address at the time was recorded as 50-01 47th Street, Woodside, Long Island, New York. This was Poppa and Nana McElroy’s house – our maternal grandparents (link with wife Ann Jane McElroy Cullen); front door faces 47th Street, side of house extends along 50th Avenue.
He was discharged from the Officers’ Reserve Corps and the army of the United States effective 22 December 1952, issued out of Headquarters First Army, Governors Island, New York 4, N.Y. (they didn’t have zip codes back then, just a simple postal code). This was 9 months and two days after the birth of our brother Kevin. Our address at the time was shown as 47-21 44th Street, Woodside, LI, New York. His discharge papers were finally processed on January 7, 1953 and were sent out of New York Military District, 90 Church Street, New York 7, N.Y., his Honorable Discharge Certificate was included with the transmittal.
His address was actually in Sunnyside, not Woodside, although they were both used interchangeably because we were near the borderline of each. In clockwise fashion, Sunnyside is bounded by the neighborhoods of Woodside, Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Blissville, Dutch Kills, Hunters Point and Astoria. Up until 1908, part of Sunnyside and all of these neighborhoods, with the exception of Woodside comprised Long Island City. This is the same address where our father’s brother Uncle Johnny had to scale the outside front of the building and walk along the edge to get into a couple of years earlier as my cradle was wedged against the door. From what I heard my older brothers Jimmy and Larry were playing around with me and my cradle fell, with me in it, against the door, closing it and preventing it from being opened. Jimmy and Larry would have been around nearly 3 and 2 years of age at the time.
Jim and Anne have five sons: Jas. Edwd. A. (II), Lawrence Vincent Eugene (09/11/1948 - 11/25/2012), Daniel Michael Jas., Kevin Francis Patrick (somewhat darker red hair than father) and Francis Jos. Jas. The three oldest were born in Manhattan, while the two youngest were born in Flushing Hospital, Queens County, NYC. They were all reared during childhood in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens County, NYC, NY, which borders 1st Calvary in the Long Island City neighborhood and 2nd and 3rd Calvary in the Woodside postal neighborhood, all in Queens County, NYC, NY. The boys attended St. Teresa's parochial grammar school (grades 1 through 8), which was taught by Sparkill Dominicans (Sisters of St. Dominic) in the 1950s. The pastor at the time was Father Geo. Morrow. According to church records the Dominicans left in 1974.
He is Grandfather to: (Jas. Edwd. A. II) Christine, Jacqueline and Jas. E. III; (Lawrence V.) Anya Sinead (strawberry red-blonde) and Patrick L. (somewhat darker red head, although not as dark as Sonny’s brother Frank) - a 2015 graduate of Xavier H.S. and Jr. ROTC; (Daniel Mich. Jas.) Daniel Mich. Jas. II, Natalie-Anne Sinead; (Kevin F. P.): Ann Marie, Kevin F. II; and (Francis Jos. Jas. Sr.) James, Frankie Jr., Terence M. Cullen.
Relative to Edward’s memorial is the childhood memory I have of our father mentioning his grandfather was an invalid (in-va-lid). Being in my pre-teen years, this was a somewhat novel word to me although I knew I heard it before. I recall asking him about it because in my mind’s eye I visualized the same as “in-val-id”” and wanted to know what he meant. If I recall correctly he told me it was someone who’s crippled. That got injured in the Civil War. I think I then asked ‘like Old Man Mr. Cronin”? Who I was told had a wooden leg. He told me something like that, that there’s different ways to be crippled. So, to this date, I’ve yet to frame a picture of who was the “in-va-lid” and how he was “in-val-id”. I mention this now, as the memory came to the forefront, and was answered, when coming across an 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War listing Edward as deceased and his wife Sarah “widow of”. This in turn lead me along a pursuit that found several Veterans Administration Pension Cards, one of which expressly stating “invalid” filed on 1865 May 3, certificate no. 43542 for Edward Cullen Company 10 NY Infantry. The same card subsequently notes Edward dies 11-29-88 (as in 1888), as well as an 1890 Sep 22 filing date by Widow, application no. 494615, certificate no. 327243. It all fell into place in my mind. Certainly one less thing to piece together and a pleasant memory of a childhood visualization process now a straightened out mental construct.
As for Old Man John Cronin, who was like 92 years old, my Dad had arranged for a NY Daily News photographer to take a picture of me as a small boy, after a snow storm, throwing a snowball toward the back of him (he was wearing a long black coat and derby like hat - he was a fine dresser with a nice, full, big white mustache) while he and my Dad were walking down Greenpoint Avenue from Tomkins Park Street. I may have been 7 at the time. I’m pretty sure it was the Daily News and not the Daily Mirror or Long Island Star Journal.
I use to like walking with my Dad on his way to work in the evening, after he didn’t have the bar & grill anymore and our Mom had passed on. I liked it because he walked nice and fast and it made me feel good to be just off to his left side. I have that feeling to this day, as I do about him rubbing my hair with his hand. A nice tear from a fond memory. I rub my son’s hair in like manner.
Sonny's maternal uncle is Mattie Haskins (b. 1886 - d. 1930, pneumonia, refer to memorial # 102161743 for his Sonny’s mom, Mary Ellen, for further details), a popular NYC Irish tenor out of Dublin, who had many Irish Ballad recordings in the mid-1920s. Some were recorded at the famed Liederkranz Hall (111-119 East 58th Street, east of Park Avenue) for its' acoustics. He was regularly heard over the radio waves broadcasted out of the Roosevelt Hotel, the "Grand Dame of Madison Avenue", which opened in 1924; before Guy Lombardo's premier at the Roosevelt Grill Oct. 3, 1929, just before the stock market crash. It was from here that Lombardo created the tradition of playing "Auld Lang Syne". Radio records were "the medium" of these times - "the roaring 20s". These are the times when men were men and woman, well women were “flappers”. Think short hair, cloche hats, cigarette smoking, long slinky styled dresses/skirts and the Charleston. Mattie's recordings were on 10" Victor Program Transcriptions played at a 33 rpm speed (revolutions per minute); not the 78 rpm's that were being standardized around the same 1925-1930 period.
Sonny is brother to May (Mary) Napoleon (1914-1975, Memorial# 104085460) and Francis "Frank" J. Cullen (1918-1979, Memorial# 542646), John "Johnny" (1920-1991, Memorial# 103754692), Anna (1922-1934, Memorial# 103722901) and Eugene McElroy (1924-1997, Memorial# 975215) and Joan Corrigan Walker (1931-1990, Memorial# 103993155).
From time of birth until early 1919, when he was still a young boy, Sonny had lived with his mom and dad and sister Mary “May” at 578 Westchester Avenue, just in from St. Ann's Avenue by 149th Street, down from Eagle Avenue, North New York in The Bronx.
He was baptized some eighteen (18) days after his birth on the 16th of January 1916 at St. Roch's Church. St. Roch's was organized in 1899 and incorporated on November 29th, 1899. Services were in an unused church at 150th Street and Jackson Avenue up until 1932. Since then until the present, St. Roch's has been at 524 Wales Avenue, between 147th & 149th Streets, Bronx, NY. His Godfather is William E. Nelson and his Godmother is Susie Cullen. Bill Nelson is the husband of Catherine “Kitty” Cullen Nelson, the daughter of Sonny’s paternal grandfather Edward and next older sibling of his dad Frank – their birthdays 2 years 2 days apart. Susie Cullen was the next oldest surviving sister of Frank’s and Catherine’s. Susie would soon be Mrs. Edwin J. Dorgan. They all lived within blocks of each other in the North New York neighborhood of the Bronx. An exploded view of a part copy of a 1909 Bronx street map denoted to indicate their respective addresses can be viewed with Susan M Cullen Dorgan’s memorial no. 19874347.
Our brother Jimmy told me that our dad’s birth name is from his maternal grandfather James Haskins and his paternal grandfather Edward Cullen; thus, James Edward. This makes perfect sense to me. As to his Confirmation name he selected Aloysius. Given that he was educated through the Roman Catholic School System in New York, he may well have selected the name from Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S.J. Fr. Cullen was born in the Town of New Ross, Co. Wexford on Oct. 23, 1841 and passed away in Dublin on December 6, 1921). He attended the Jesuit secondary school (high school) at Clongowes Wood College by Claen in Co. Kildare. Architectural this school is a castle – it was built by Stuart Cullen (an Anglo-Norman warrior). Father Cullen was noted clergyman throughout Ireland. He was known for his temperance movement efforts. He’s been described as a loyal and devout Jesuit. However, he shied away from the typical schoolmaster role and focused on helping the poor, living his life in poverty and obedience. From a memoriam to him in the August 30, 1924 issue of The Tablet by Rev. Lambert McKenna S.J.: “It was in 1862 - two years before ordination - that a chance encounter with a priest who was evidently not a teetotaler set his mind in the direction of that temperance reform which was to loom so large throughout his life.” The IrishTimes in their history of surnames notes that he founded “the Irish Messenger in 1888 and the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association in 1898. At their height, the Pioneers had a membership of over 300,000.” Sonny would have made his confirmation in about a few years after the passing of Rev. James Aloysius Cullen, S.J.
Jas. Edwd. I went to Xavier High School, a renowned Jesuit school between 5th and 6th. Aves., on 16th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, NYC, New York. Some years later, he went through army officer training. Jas. Edwd. was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW II, serving in the Aleutians, performing logistics, recon and intelligence work.
In his early teens, he was an errand boy for an insurance company, and later on an apartment building doorman, which probably well-suited his outward personality and ability to talk with others about different things. He was also an elevator operator. Back in those days, elevators were essential machinery requiring a human operator, not like later developed fully automated mechanized equipment. Like his younger brothers, Frankie, Johnny and Eugene, Jim was entrepreneurial, having started and owning a carpentry business with the motto “No Job Too Small”, and also owned bars and grills. Sonny also enjoyed deer and rabbit hunting, as does his son Kevin.
He married Ann Jane McElroy on January 16, 1942. She’s formally, Anna Jeanette Cullen, commonly called Annie, named after her paternal aunt Anne Jane and likely her mother's sister Annie. My brother Jimmy tracked down their wedding ceremony to St. Francis De Sales in Riverside, California. Jimmy noted that our Dad was temporarily stationed there before being deployed to the Aleutian Islands, which extend westerly from the northerly Alaskan coastline toward Russia and Japan. I subsequently obtained a copy of their Marriage Certificate, certifying that the Holy Sacrament of Marriage between James Edward Cullen and Anna Jeanette McElroy were officiated by Fr. Francis Widlock, O.M.C. (Order of Merciful Christ) in the presence of Raymond Blessing and Margaret McCarthy.
Among other things, our brother Jimmy had the patience and tenacity to track down certain copies of our Dad’s military records. Our Dad originally enlisted on January 21, 1941 at the age of 25-1/12, blue eyes, hair is listed as “blond” (actually it was more a strawberry blonde – like our niece Anya Sinead), ruddy complexion and was 5 ft. 11-1/4 inches in height. His weight was 180 lbs. In 1943 he was an Army Second Lieutenant and was subsequently appointed Captain. He served in the Aleutian Islands off the coast of Alaska. As an aside, Anne's father, Michael, also was a red head.
In July of 1945 James Edward earned the Army’ Alaskan Department Certificate of Commendable Service, which was awarded by Brigadier General (1 star) R.E. Mittelstaedt, Commanding Fort Richardson (where he was stationed in Alaska), and Lieutenant General (3 stars) Delos C. Emmons, U.S. Army Commanding. On October 6, 1945, he was offered appointment as an office in the Reserve Corps by Major General (2 stars) Edward F. Witsell, acting as the Adjunct General. Our Dad then accepted and certified same upon receipt of Army Service Forces document issued by Infantry Colonel (full bird) G.B. Appelman, of same date.
His Separation Qualification Record, dated 26 December 1945, states that he “At times had command and staff authority over as many as 1,000 men, being responsible for their employment, mess, barracks facilities, their morale, discipline, personal problems, transportation, furloughs, health and general welfare; directing and supervising administrative procedures, and interpreting directives and policies to the command. Maintained liaison with personnel and other divisions in affecting disposition of individual personnel.” I remember as a child hearing that when our Dad got out the service he was for a while an acting major, something along the lines of a Brevet Major. Having read this document it now makes sense as a Captain oversees a Company, that is, usually up to 250 soldiers. He was separated at Separation Point, Camp Haan, California. His permanent home address at the time was recorded as 50-01 47th Street, Woodside, Long Island, New York. This was Poppa and Nana McElroy’s house – our maternal grandparents (link with wife Ann Jane McElroy Cullen); front door faces 47th Street, side of house extends along 50th Avenue.
He was discharged from the Officers’ Reserve Corps and the army of the United States effective 22 December 1952, issued out of Headquarters First Army, Governors Island, New York 4, N.Y. (they didn’t have zip codes back then, just a simple postal code). This was 9 months and two days after the birth of our brother Kevin. Our address at the time was shown as 47-21 44th Street, Woodside, LI, New York. His discharge papers were finally processed on January 7, 1953 and were sent out of New York Military District, 90 Church Street, New York 7, N.Y., his Honorable Discharge Certificate was included with the transmittal.
His address was actually in Sunnyside, not Woodside, although they were both used interchangeably because we were near the borderline of each. In clockwise fashion, Sunnyside is bounded by the neighborhoods of Woodside, Maspeth, Laurel Hill, Blissville, Dutch Kills, Hunters Point and Astoria. Up until 1908, part of Sunnyside and all of these neighborhoods, with the exception of Woodside comprised Long Island City. This is the same address where our father’s brother Uncle Johnny had to scale the outside front of the building and walk along the edge to get into a couple of years earlier as my cradle was wedged against the door. From what I heard my older brothers Jimmy and Larry were playing around with me and my cradle fell, with me in it, against the door, closing it and preventing it from being opened. Jimmy and Larry would have been around nearly 3 and 2 years of age at the time.
Jim and Anne have five sons: Jas. Edwd. A. (II), Lawrence Vincent Eugene (09/11/1948 - 11/25/2012), Daniel Michael Jas., Kevin Francis Patrick (somewhat darker red hair than father) and Francis Jos. Jas. The three oldest were born in Manhattan, while the two youngest were born in Flushing Hospital, Queens County, NYC. They were all reared during childhood in the Sunnyside neighborhood of Queens County, NYC, NY, which borders 1st Calvary in the Long Island City neighborhood and 2nd and 3rd Calvary in the Woodside postal neighborhood, all in Queens County, NYC, NY. The boys attended St. Teresa's parochial grammar school (grades 1 through 8), which was taught by Sparkill Dominicans (Sisters of St. Dominic) in the 1950s. The pastor at the time was Father Geo. Morrow. According to church records the Dominicans left in 1974.
He is Grandfather to: (Jas. Edwd. A. II) Christine, Jacqueline and Jas. E. III; (Lawrence V.) Anya Sinead (strawberry red-blonde) and Patrick L. (somewhat darker red head, although not as dark as Sonny’s brother Frank) - a 2015 graduate of Xavier H.S. and Jr. ROTC; (Daniel Mich. Jas.) Daniel Mich. Jas. II, Natalie-Anne Sinead; (Kevin F. P.): Ann Marie, Kevin F. II; and (Francis Jos. Jas. Sr.) James, Frankie Jr., Terence M. Cullen.
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