Lanty McGraw came to the US sometime prior to 1850. His brother Edmond had arrived in New York City in November, 1848. Both brothers had left their wives and children behind in Ireland while they sought to establish themselves in their newly adopted country. On November 7, 1850 Lanty’s wife Catherine and their children arrived in New York City on the same ship as Edmond’s wife Mary and their two sons. The families first showed up in the 1855 census with Lanty living in the village of Fabius in the town of Fabius on the southern edge of Onondaga Co and Edmond and his family in Cuyler, then part of the town of Truxton in adjacent Cortland Co. Living in the town Pompey in 1855 were Michael McGrath, father of Lanty and Edmond, Michael’s son Thomas and Thomas’ wife Catherine Gleason McGrath, who had come to the US around 1852. Also living in Pompey was Michael’s daughter Margaret who had married Richard Long in Syracuse in 1852. The Longs and the McGraths had been neighbors on adjacent farms back in Ireland.
During the latter half of the 1850
decade the family was as geographically close as they would ever be
again. It has been assumed that Michael McGrath had died prior to 1860
due to his absence in the records although no documented proof has ever
been discovered. Towards the end of 1858 Thomas and Catherine McGrath
moved to Maple Ridge in Lewis Co. They would be followed by about a
dozen other individuals included his sister Margaret McGrath Long and
her family. Thomas and the others remained in Maple Ridge while his
sister Margaret and her family returned to Pompey after a few brutally
cold winters in Maple Ridge. Edmond remained on his farm in the town of
Cuyler which separated from the town of Truxton in 1858. In 1857 Lanty
had purchased a small farm in an area of the town of Fabius called
Kenyon Hollow, which is now part of Highland Forest State Park. Lanty
sold the farm to Seneca Smith in 1858 and the family moved west to
Ontario Co. ...
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1904 map of Clifton Springs, town of Manchester, Ontario Co., NY Alanson and Catherine McGraw's youngest daughter Mary married August Lindner and came into possession of the McGraw family farm. By 1904 the farm was referred to as the Lindner Farm. |
Mary McGraw Lindner 1871 - 1930 Courtesy of Susan Lindner McDonald |
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| Prisoon, Foilduff, Abington par, Co. Tipperary. 1880 Townland Map |
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| Looking north along the road into Prisoon. This is a sub-townland in the townland of Foilduff, Abington civil parish, Co. Tipperary. The William Ryan and Lanty McGraw families were both living here on this tiny sub-townland in the 1840s prior to leaving for the US. |
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