MICHAEL LANG was born about 1814 County Sligo and died in 1890 at age of 76. His first wife was a Miss Kerney who died before Michael left Ireland for the US in 1847. They had one child was often referred to as Little Ann to distinguish her from her aunt, Ann Lang, and a cousin Ann Lang who was about her own age. Michael, with his brothers, Patrick and Andrew and sister, Winifred, left Irelandin 1847 and settled near Fond du Lac, Wisconsin where he married his second wife, Brigid (McDonough) Noonan, whose husband (last name Noonan) died in Ireland and who had one son, Patrick Noonan. Brigid McDonough was the daughter of Michael McDonough and Mary Healy. From Michael's second marriage there were three children; Mary, Andrew, and John. This second wife was a sister of Mrs. Terrence McBride (Anna McDonough) who was the daughter of Michael and Mary Healy McDonough of Co. Roscommon. Cecelia McBride says that Patrick Lang left Wisconsin around 1864 for Minnesota to buy land for himself, his brother Michael and Terence McBride, and that the Langs and McBride left Wisconsin in late 1864 or early 1865 for Minnesota taking them three weeks to make the trip from Fond du Lac to Rochester where they stopped to work on a farm for Mr. Campion. It was during their stay south of Rochester that Michael lost his second wife whom they buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Simpson, near Rochester. After the burial of his wife, Michael Lang, with the children by his second wife, left Rochester for Waseca County where they arrived in 1865. Michael Lang and his family and Terrence and Anna McBride lived for a while with the Casey family while they prepared dwellings for their new homes. The Casey farm was located between the farms bought by Terrence McBride in Section 12 of Alton Township and Michael Lang in Section 1 of Alton Township. It might also be identified as the farm which Patrick Foley bought in 1878 and which was his home until he died in 1910. History of Steele and Waseca Counties (1887), Page 675, Union Publishing Company, Chicago.
Brother Bonaventure thinks that Patrick Lang did not buy a farm in Waseca County but in Steele County near Owatonna, where his son, Thomas Lang, lived and died. It may be added here that there is no indication of when Andrew Lang came to Minnesota and settled in Alton Township on the forty acres bordering on the west side of the farm bought by Nancy Crystal and her son, Robert Crystal. Michael Lang died September 13, 1890 at the age of about 76. At the time of his death he was living in a log cabin on what was known as the John Sullivan Farm which at the time was owned by his brother-in-law, Patrick Foley. This log cabin was across the road from the site where John and Ellen (Burke) Foley built their new home in 1898. No doubt Michael was living here for it was rather close to the home of his brother, Andrew. It is thought that Michael is buried in the St. Mary's Cemetery for the St. Ann’s Cemetery, near Janesville was not opened until 1892. The Janesville Argus (September 15, 1890) includes the following: Michael Lang, brother of Andrew Lang died Saturday last after a short illness. The funeral was held today (September 15, 1890) at St. Ann's Church, Janesville.
A. Ann (Little Ann) Lang; she was born about 1844, County Sligo. When she was 18 years of age she came to the United States with her aunt, Ann Lang and her cousin, John Lang, who at the time was 16 years old. They arrived at Boston on Easter Sunday, April 20, 1862, and went directly to Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. As Ann was only 2 or 3 years old and her cousin, John Lang, was only a year old when their parents and Aunt Winifred left Ireland for the United States, one would think in looking back that this must have been a great deal to ask of Ann (the aunt) to assume because the Potato Famine hit Ireland in 1846, and many, many people in West Ireland were dying of starvation. Nor do we have any record why Ann and her two charges remained in Ireland until 1862. Would it be possible that it took the parents this long a time to save up the necessary funds to bring their children and sister to America, or was their passage to America paid for by savings of the Aunt and a possible legacy of the grandparents who may have died shortly before 1862. It is said that Little Ann arrived in Wisconsin with her aunt and cousin John Lang, in 1862. We do not know what she did here and it is not clear that she accompanied her father and stepmother when they left for Minnesota in 1865 or if she went with her aunt in 1866 when it is said that the aunt, Ann Lang, left Wisconsin for Minnesota to keep house for her brother Michael, who had recently lost his wife. Records say that “Little
Ann” married Martin Gallagher in 1867, and that the marriage took place at the farm home of Thomas McHugo, northeast of Janesville and the witnesses were her aunt, Ann Lang, and her cousin, John Lang. She died at the family home in Alton Township on March 25,1901, and is buried in St. Ann's Cemetery, Janesville. The family of Ann Lang and Martin Gallagher included:
1. John Gallagher married Mary Ryan (d)
a. Eugene Gallagher, married Emma Mertens (2nd wife)
b. Viola Gallagher
2. Owen Gallagher; he married Jessie Davis but had no children.
3. Winifred Gallagher (Winnie). She never married.
4. Catherine Gallagher; never married.
3. Winifred Gallagher (Winnie). She never married.
E. Thomas Gallagher. Never married.
F. James Gallagher married Katherine Murphy. No children.
G. Mary Gallagher married James McBride of Montgomery.
She and her husband are buried at Shieldsville, Minn.
a. Joseph Gallagher McBride
b. Erin McBride. Married _______Gomulo of the Philippines.
1. Douglas Gomulo
2. Dwight Gomulo
3. Sharon Gomulo
H. Ellen Gallagher married Arthur Murphy
a. Robert Murphy married Dolores Herman
1. Vicky Murphy
2. Gene Murphy
I. Joseph Gallagher married Gertrude Anderson, they had 2 children.
a. Agnes Gallagher married George Penham
b. Marguerite Gallagher married _______Anderson
J. Agnes Gallagher married William R. Burke
a. Marguerite Burke married Raymond Collard.
Live at Granada Hills, Calif.
1. Mary Ann
b. Michael Burke married Mary Ellen Howe. No family.
c. Sister Noreen (Lucy) Burke; Rochester, Minn.
d. Cyril Burke married Dorothy Caven
1. Danny Burke married Jo Ellen________
1. Joseph
2. Brock
3. Kurth
h. Mark
2. Larry Burke married Karen Kopischke
3. Gary Burke
4. Marilynn Burke
5. Lorraine Burke
6. Lorraine Burke
7. Carol Burke
8. Rita Burke
9. Joseph Burke
10. Thomas Burke
e. Eugene Burke married Ann Barnhart
1. Patrick Burke
2. Kathleen Burke married Jay Murphy
3. Stephen Burke
h. Timothy Burke
f. Catherine Burke married Paul Pfeffer
1. Michael Pfeffer
2. Donald Pfeffer
3. Peggy Pfeffer
4. Robert Pfeffer
5. Francis Pfeffer
6. Jane Pfeffer
7. Noreen Pfeffer
8. Ronald Pfeffer
g. William Burke
K. Martin Gallagher married Hanna Convey
a. Lucille Gallagher married. Joseph Glynn
1. Gilbert Glynn married Dorothy Crouter
1. Lynda Glynn
2. Karen Glynn
3. Pattie Jo Glynn
4. Casey Glynn
5. Kelly Glynn
6. Katie Glynn
7. Jamie Glynn
2. Betty Glynn married. Elmer Fabian (deceased.)
Robert Kanz
1. Nancy Fabian
2. Michael Fabian
3. Colleen Kanz
4. Steve Kanz
5. Jackie Kanz
6. Patti Kanz
3. Robert Glynn married Charlotte Edmonson
1. Terry Glynn
2. Greg Glynn
4. Ronald Glynn married Mary Wenilandt
1. Ann Glynn
2. Mary Fran Glynn
3. Jon Glynn
4. Bobbie Glynn
5. Gayle Glynn
5. Sister Leon (Margaret Glynn), O.P.
6. Sister Liana (Patricia Glynn), G.P.
7. Joan Glynn married James Fleshmann
1. Shauna Fleshmann
2. Kimmy Fleshmann
8. Martin Glynn married Judy Kay Jacob son
9. Sharon Glynn married Dean Eckelberry
b. Leon Gallagher married Joseph Vaughan
1. Donald Vaughan married Marion __________
1. Kitty Vaughan
2. Tommy Vaughan
2. Kenneth Vaughan married ___________LaVoit
1.
3. Dale Vaughan married Nancy __________
4. Eileen Vaughan
MICHAEL LANG
Michael Lang and Bridgid (McDonough) Noonan
1. Mary Ellen Lang married Thomas Donelan
A. Gertrude Donelan married John Eustice
a. Donald Eustice married Alice Mae Perron
1. Ronald Francis Eustice
2. Robert James Eustice
3. Donald Joseph Eustice
4.Marjorie Ann Eustice Root
b.. Herbert Eustice married Eileen Connor
1. Edward John Eustice
2. Marilyn Eustice
3. James Eustice
4. Jack Eustice
Carol Eustice
c. Eugene Eustice married Leona Mathiowitz
1. Lynette Kay Eustice
2. Denise Eustice
3. Keith Eustice
B. Anna Donelan married Andrew Eustice
a. Dorothy Eustice married Paul Illg
1. Michael Illg
2. Jean Marie Illg
3. Mary Jo Illg
C. Sister Bede (Agnes) Donelan, O.S.F., Rochester, Minn. Taught Latin and Greek for forty years or more at the College of St. Teresa, Winona and during the summer of 1968 she was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. Died
D. Kathryn Donelan married John Cronin
E. Margaret Donelan married Arnold Dahl
a. Marilyn Dahl married Ronald Hensley
F. Thomas Donelan married Vera McGuire
a. Frances Donelan married Lyie Kunz
b. Gerald Donelan married Gert (Harguth
c. Raymond Donelan married Marcie Krenick
2. Andrew Lang. Married Genevieve Vaughan on Nov. 13, 1894
A. Mary (Mae) Lang married Michael Dardise
B. Ireen Lang married Sylvester Madden
C. Ester Lang married Emmett McGonagle
D. Margaret Lang married William Francis
E. Cecelia Lang married Leo Dardise (deceased)
A. H. Scholljereres
F. Helen (Nellie) Lang married Clarence Brussels
G. Genevive Lang married Raphael Parley
. H. Joseph Lang married Margaret Pfieffer
a. William James Lang married Mary Pete.
a. Mildred Jewison
1. Sister M. Astrid Jewison, O.S.F., Rochester
3- John Lang. No record of when or where he died. He died of Diphtheria at age 15.
4. Thomas Lang (deceased). He died of Diphtheria at age 17 and is buried at St. Ann’s Cemetery, Janesville.
5. Thomas Gallagher; never married. |
