{"id":1094,"date":"2017-06-12T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2017-06-12T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:03:33","slug":"flynns-and-draddys-and-donohues-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/flynns-and-draddys-and-donohues-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Flynns and Draddys and Donohues, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a follow up to this post<\/a> and this post<\/a>, I finally received the first of the grave records from Calvary Cemetery in Queens. This took just over two months, which seems a bit long, especially for the amount of “research” that went into this and the cost.<\/p>\n

Anyway, let’s look at the meat of the matter.<\/p>\n

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Grave record for Flynn-Draddy-Donohue<\/p><\/div>\n

As you may recall, there were two unknown people in this grave. These people are Catherine Draddy-Donohue, who I am very happy to have finally found, and her 15 year old son, James. I am unsure how he died, but I am sure it was painfully tragic for all involved.<\/p>\n

Let’s run through the history of this grave. It was originally purchased by Mary ___-Flynn, mother of John Flynn and Mary Flynn-Draddy, for John. John was married at the time of his death, but I have not been able to find any records for who his bride was. Mother Mary would soon join him, after dying a not so peaceful death (let’s just leave it that she caught one of the various tenement diseases).<\/p>\n

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William P. Donohue<\/p><\/div>\n

The grave seems to have been left untouched for 35 years, when Catherine Draddy-Donohue, daughter of John Draddy and Mary Flynn-Draddy, needed a place to bury her husband, William P. Donohue. William was a bridge-tender and died of pneumonia.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Donohue<\/p><\/div>\n

Six years later, William and Catherine’s 21 year old son, Thomas, who had been enrolled in seminary school, died. I do not have his death record yet, but the lore is that he died of some type of flu. 1921 was too late, I think, for Spanish Flu, but most forms of flu were not as treatable as they are now.<\/p>\n

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Calvary 8-61-T-13<\/p><\/div>\n

I think it would have been at this point that Catherine put up the headstone on what had been previously, I suspect, an unmarked grave. Notice there is no mention of James, who would die in 1923.<\/p>\n

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Catherine Mary Draddy-Donohue<\/p><\/div>\n

Then the grave was left alone for about 17 years before Catherine herself was buried there. She died of “Peritonitis post appendectomy, ileostomy”. I think that means her appendix burst.<\/p>\n

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Responsible Party<\/p><\/div>\n

It has now been 77 years since this grave was last disturbed. Now I am listed as the “Responsible Party”…who owes $1801 in back maintenance fees. Good luck collecting that, Calvary!<\/p>\n

But, seriously, did I just inherit a grave in Queens?!?!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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