Posted on 08/17/2010 8:28:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
My gggrandfather was a member of the Molly Maguires and so was my ggrandfather. My ggrandfather who was 10 when he arrived in PA served in the Union Army in San Francisco during the Civil War and eventually died of Black Lung from working in the mines around Houtzville and Centerville, PA. He had 13 children — 11 lived to maturity. One of his sons died in a Christmas Eve mine collapse in the Centerville area.
“No Irish need apply ...”
My Hispanic co-workers were shocked, shocked I say, to learn about such history.
Also learned at recent family reunion that one of my aunt’s great=aunt’s fabricated a huge amount of family history relating them to English gentry. Instead they were a mixture of English and Irish working stiffs.
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