Alice Skelly

Notes by Terri Vance on 5/2/2012:

I found a letter that my grandmother, Florence Elizabeth (nee Williams) Vance and her cousin, Dr. Henry Clyde Werts, typed up on August 20, 1950 in Los Angeles. The letter was titled Quinlans. It was the key to discovering my Quinlan roots.

The letter begins...

"Jeremiah Quinlan and his wife and family left Ireland and settled in Canada near Walkerton about 1853. Then left Canada and settled in Kansas U.S.A, near St. Mary's, about 1867. Leaving part of the Family in Canada."

In the Quinlan letter the following are listed as Jeremiah and Bridget Quinlan's children:

Tom, Patrick, Bridget, Katie, William, Ellen, Julia, Mary

Paragraph of Florence Vance's letter pertaining to Bridget Quinlan:

Bridget Quinlan married Martin Skelly. They had four boys and several girls. Pat and Will never married - both dead. Katie never married. She also is dead. Julia, married Godlib Bower. They had several children. Alice married Pat Holleran. They had several children. Mrs. Graybill and her husband had several children. I do not know her first name. Tom married and lives on a farm near Delia, Kansas. Jim Skelly married too late to have children. His wife's name is Stella. Maggie married Hugh Trainer. He died and she married a farmer near Delia, Kansas. She is dead. Alice and Mrs. Graybill, Jim and Tom are living.''