Wife of Richard Fahey. Daughter of Revolutionary War Patriot Robert Elliott of Pennsylvania.
DAR Real Daughter
From the 1912 book Real Daughters of the American Revolution, by Margaret B. Harvey, page 143:
Mrs. Marv Elliott Fahey, Fort Madison, Iowa. Jean Espy Chapter. Born in York County, Pa., July 10, 1818; died December 25, 1910. Wife of Richard Fahey. Daughter of Robert Elliott, of Pennsylvania, and Margaret Johnstone, his wife. Robert Elliott was Adjutant in the Seventh Pennsylvania Continental Line, which made a flying march from Harrisburg. Pa., across the country to Bunker Hill, and took part in that famous fight. He received the personal commendation of General Washington. Robert Elliott was a pensioner at the time of his death in 1823. His daughter Mary was educated in a Presbyterian Seminary, but later became a Roman Catholic. She lived for a time at Harrisburg. Pa., then removed to Williamsport, Md., where she was married to Richard Fahey. Her husband having contracted with an eastern railroad company to build roadbeds through Western Illinois, she journeyed with him in a flat boat down to the Ohio River to Cairo, Ill., thence to Warsaw, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Fahey settled at Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1839. Mrs. Fahey lived in this place sixty-five years. She died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Lowrey, in Chicago. One son, Mr. M.J. Fahey, resides in Fort Madison. [Contributed by Robert Fahey]
The New York Times, Dec. 28, 1910:
MRS. MARY A. FAHEY, a daughter of an officer who fought in the American Revolution, was buried at Fort Madison, Iowa, yesterday. Until her death in Chicago Sunday, Mrs. Fahey was one of three surviving original Daughters of the American Revolution.
DAR Real Daughter
From the 1912 book Real Daughters of the American Revolution, by Margaret B. Harvey, page 143:
Mrs. Marv Elliott Fahey, Fort Madison, Iowa. Jean Espy Chapter. Born in York County, Pa., July 10, 1818; died December 25, 1910. Wife of Richard Fahey. Daughter of Robert Elliott, of Pennsylvania, and Margaret Johnstone, his wife. Robert Elliott was Adjutant in the Seventh Pennsylvania Continental Line, which made a flying march from Harrisburg. Pa., across the country to Bunker Hill, and took part in that famous fight. He received the personal commendation of General Washington. Robert Elliott was a pensioner at the time of his death in 1823. His daughter Mary was educated in a Presbyterian Seminary, but later became a Roman Catholic. She lived for a time at Harrisburg. Pa., then removed to Williamsport, Md., where she was married to Richard Fahey. Her husband having contracted with an eastern railroad company to build roadbeds through Western Illinois, she journeyed with him in a flat boat down to the Ohio River to Cairo, Ill., thence to Warsaw, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Fahey settled at Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1839. Mrs. Fahey lived in this place sixty-five years. She died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Lowrey, in Chicago. One son, Mr. M.J. Fahey, resides in Fort Madison. [Contributed by Robert Fahey]
The New York Times, Dec. 28, 1910:
MRS. MARY A. FAHEY, a daughter of an officer who fought in the American Revolution, was buried at Fort Madison, Iowa, yesterday. Until her death in Chicago Sunday, Mrs. Fahey was one of three surviving original Daughters of the American Revolution.
Wife of Richard Fahey. Daughter of Revolutionary War Patriot Robert Elliott of Pennsylvania.
DAR Real Daughter
From the 1912 book Real Daughters of the American Revolution, by Margaret B. Harvey, page 143:
Mrs. Marv Elliott Fahey, Fort Madison, Iowa. Jean Espy Chapter. Born in York County, Pa., July 10, 1818; died December 25, 1910. Wife of Richard Fahey. Daughter of Robert Elliott, of Pennsylvania, and Margaret Johnstone, his wife. Robert Elliott was Adjutant in the Seventh Pennsylvania Continental Line, which made a flying march from Harrisburg. Pa., across the country to Bunker Hill, and took part in that famous fight. He received the personal commendation of General Washington. Robert Elliott was a pensioner at the time of his death in 1823. His daughter Mary was educated in a Presbyterian Seminary, but later became a Roman Catholic. She lived for a time at Harrisburg. Pa., then removed to Williamsport, Md., where she was married to Richard Fahey. Her husband having contracted with an eastern railroad company to build roadbeds through Western Illinois, she journeyed with him in a flat boat down to the Ohio River to Cairo, Ill., thence to Warsaw, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Fahey settled at Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1839. Mrs. Fahey lived in this place sixty-five years. She died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Lowrey, in Chicago. One son, Mr. M.J. Fahey, resides in Fort Madison. [Contributed by Robert Fahey]
The New York Times, Dec. 28, 1910:
MRS. MARY A. FAHEY, a daughter of an officer who fought in the American Revolution, was buried at Fort Madison, Iowa, yesterday. Until her death in Chicago Sunday, Mrs. Fahey was one of three surviving original Daughters of the American Revolution.
DAR Real Daughter
From the 1912 book Real Daughters of the American Revolution, by Margaret B. Harvey, page 143:
Mrs. Marv Elliott Fahey, Fort Madison, Iowa. Jean Espy Chapter. Born in York County, Pa., July 10, 1818; died December 25, 1910. Wife of Richard Fahey. Daughter of Robert Elliott, of Pennsylvania, and Margaret Johnstone, his wife. Robert Elliott was Adjutant in the Seventh Pennsylvania Continental Line, which made a flying march from Harrisburg. Pa., across the country to Bunker Hill, and took part in that famous fight. He received the personal commendation of General Washington. Robert Elliott was a pensioner at the time of his death in 1823. His daughter Mary was educated in a Presbyterian Seminary, but later became a Roman Catholic. She lived for a time at Harrisburg. Pa., then removed to Williamsport, Md., where she was married to Richard Fahey. Her husband having contracted with an eastern railroad company to build roadbeds through Western Illinois, she journeyed with him in a flat boat down to the Ohio River to Cairo, Ill., thence to Warsaw, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Fahey settled at Fort Madison, Iowa, in 1839. Mrs. Fahey lived in this place sixty-five years. She died at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Lowrey, in Chicago. One son, Mr. M.J. Fahey, resides in Fort Madison. [Contributed by Robert Fahey]
The New York Times, Dec. 28, 1910:
MRS. MARY A. FAHEY, a daughter of an officer who fought in the American Revolution, was buried at Fort Madison, Iowa, yesterday. Until her death in Chicago Sunday, Mrs. Fahey was one of three surviving original Daughters of the American Revolution.
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