I thought it would be appropriate for St. Patrick's day to post a little information on our Irish roots. Our line is through Henry Thomas Cassidy. Henry was the ninth son of John and Jane Chestnut Cassidy and was in the last group of the family to come to America. He came with his parents and his brother James at the close of the Civil War. The family came from Glencolumbkille, County Donegal in Ireland, seen above. It is beautiful and wild, and was at the time a very poor area with little arable land. Henry's father, John was a tenant farmer there.
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