From Dakota Territory Farmington 1878 Emery & Clayton 1884-1984 South Dakota Mary Ellen Burke and James Crowley were married in 1845 at County Cork, Ireland. In 1847 they emigrated to the U.S., spending two years at Long Island, New York, and several years in Burlington, Iowa, where their daughter Hannah was born. They moved to Lanesboro, Minn., in 1855, and their daughter, Mary Ellen, was born there in 1856, one of the first white children to be born there (according to the history of Fillmore county). Four other daughters were also born there: Susan, Julia, and twins Johanna and Catherine. James Crowley was a blacksmith and farmer at Lanesboro. He died there in 1876. In 1879, Mary Ellen Crowley came to Dakota with her daughter, Mary Ellen, and her husband, Patrick McDonald, with their daughters. She filed on a homestead on the northeast half of Section 26, in Pleasant Township, just west of the McDonald's homestead. On Oct. 3, 1884, Mary Ellen gave four acres (an exact square) on her homestead to St. Martin's parish, to be used as a cemetery (Book D, Hanson County records, page 180). She made her home on the homestead until 1904, when she moved to Alexandria, with her daughter, Katherine. Hannah Crowley married Patrick Redmond in 1871, and they established their home at Lanesboro. Two of their sons spent some time in Emery as carpenters. In 1899 Ed Redmond put up a building for a cafe and rooming house on Main Street, which is presently Dr. Frics'. In 1905, Dan Redmond worked on the new Catholic church there. Susan Crowley married James Kearney in 1877 at Lanesboro. They made their home on a farm near DeWitt, Iowa. Julia Crowley married Tom Wilson in 1883. He was a blacksmith at the Farmington way station. Johanna Crowley married Martin E. Conlan, in 1877 (1876?). They lived in Alexandria where their family was born and raised. He was in insurance and real estate, and served as a state senator for Hanson County in the first state legislature from 1889-1891. Catherine Crowley remained single and worked as a seamstress for many years. After her mother's death in 1907, Kate moved to Mitchell, where she died in 1936. They are both buried in St. Martin's Cemetery.