Looking for ancestors (i.e. parents, siblings) of Maria BRANIGAN. Born March 15, 1846 in Racine, Wisconsin. She married Capt. George B. BARTLEY of Manitowoc on March 27, 1861 and moved there May 1883. Mother of twelve. She died Feb 17, 1885 at her sister's home in Chicago and buried at St. Joseph's (Catholic) Church Parish cemetery in Manitowoc.

(information taken from the Iron Post, Sat. Feb. 21, 1885)