| JOHNNY
MARY ANN FAMILY |
Johnny
and Mary Annwere
married, February 22, 1892, in Stephen, Minnesota, at her home, which was
upstairs over her father's drug store. Rev. Father John Walsh officiated.
Attendants were Johnny's sister, Maggie Whalen, and his friend, Will Russell.After
the wedding, the newly-weds and the groom's foster son, Rosslyn "Rossie"McCullough,
a boy of 12 years, lived first in the little house where Johnny and sister
Maggie had homesteaded. It was the NE 1/4 of section 8 in Sinnott Township,
Marshall County, Innester. Later that spring they moved to Johnny's other
land on the NW 1/4 of the same section. Rossie lived with them until he
was 18 years of age.
The Whalen's were parents
of 10 children; two of whom died ininfancy, John Edmund, in 1902: and Julian
in 1905.
The others were -
James,
born December 19, 1892:
Luke, born August
2, 1894: Catherine, born March 7, 1896: Lenora,born
November 13, 1897: Alice,
born 22, 1899:
Frances,
born August 11, 1901: Margaret:
born September 24, 1903: and William,born
March 19, 1907. In March 1919, they opened their hearts andhome to an adopted
daughter, Irene,
then about four years old. She had come from a foundling home in NewYork.
ADVENTURES
ON WHEELS
WHALEN
INDEX
MARY ANN
JAMES (UNCLE JIM
& AUNT SALLY?)
