Annie Yeager Shamokin, PA area 1880s
I have a great grandmother that is hard to pin down. Her name was Anna Flanaghan (spelled in various ways). She was born around 1861 in County Lough, Ireland and via family info I learned that she married a Yeager in the Shamokin area of PA and had two children. I believe that they were boys, one called Jody. Her husband must have died because her life took a new direction. Annie visited a friend in Philadelphia, PA, where met her second husband, Patrick McLaughlin. They married and lived there. This would have all taken place prior to 1893. I am looking for the Yeager connection to shed light on her new life in America. Thank you.
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Re: Annie Yeager Shamokin, PA area 1880s
Hi. This may be a stretch, but my uncle's (husband of blood aunt) family came from Shamokin. His name was Clarence Yeager (b. 1903), but his father was (I believe) Ira Yeager (b. abt. 1876). I think that Ira married Jennie Weber (b. abt 1881). This is not an area of my research but stuff that I bumped into. Good luck.
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Re: Annie Yeager Shamokin, PA area 1880s
So many Annie's!!! I'll bet her middle initial was M., right? LOL That's what I am finding. I have a great-great grandmother who had a son (assuming unmarried). Her name was Annie M. Prim. Her son was John William Yeager, whose father was Albertus (Bert) Yeager. Annie Prim married later to Elmer Montgomery Shuman of Edenville or Horse Valley, PA. (Roxbury area) John William Yeager's first wife was Annie M. Ehrhart (German father - William Ehrhart). They lived in St. Thomas, Pennsylvania and were divorced (Big mix up of family members as a result). John William (William) Yeager and Annie M. Ehrhart had a son John Frederick (Fred) Yeager. John (Fred) Yeager (unmarried) lived many years in Harrisburg, PA. He did have a son, Roy William Yeager
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Re: Annie Yeager Shamokin, PA area 1880s
Thank you for your reply and for your information but I don't think it is the family connected to my great grandmother, Anna or Annie Flanaghan (sp. varies). When Annie came to Philadelphia she married Patrick and had three children with him, Bernard, Margaret, and my grandmother Helen. My grandmother was born in 1895. Thank you, again. P. S. The Yeager family owned a kind of import/export business in New York. That would have been in the 1880s or early 1890's. Does that ring a bell for anyone?
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Re: Annie Yeager Shamokin, PA area 1880s
Thank you for your reply. I think that her proper name may have been Anna and I have no clue whether she had a middle initial. Annie's maiden name was Flanaghan, or one of the various other spelling for the same name. I think that her husband may have died. She would have come to Philadelphia in the late 1880's or early 1900s. My grandmother, Helen, was born in 1895; she had an older brother, Bernard, and a older sister, Margaret. I don't think the two families are connected. Thank you, again.
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Re: Annie Yeager Shamokin, PA area 1880s
Thank you for your reply. I need to know if there is an Annie Flanigan who married a Yeager and then sometime after left for Philadelphia.
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Re: Annie Yeager Shamokin, PA area 1880s
I know very little about this relative. My mother (deceased now) told us that Annie was married to a Yeager in the Shamokin area. She said that Annie came from Ireland. This does not appear to be true. She appears to be originally from PA. We think that Annie's Yeager husband died and following that she moved to Philadelphia and married Patrick McLaughlin. I don't know how old her children were but she did not take them with her. We were told that they were left with the in-laws. I did find an Annie Flanigan, daughter of John Flanigan, in Mahanoy, Schuylkill. PA born in 1861. This could be a possibility if she lived near the place of her first marriage? I am just guessing, who knows?
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