AHERN ANNEX
Wilbert Harrell Ahern Pedigree
(Start at generation 1, below.)
WORKING DRAFT
Last Change: 28 January 2023
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Origin of
the surname “Ahern:”
Generation
5
4 Garrett Hooper Ahern
1. Biographical notes:
Perhaps born about 1825 in Ireland (also seen: b. abt 1832). Died 15 August 1879 from complications of a
self-inflicted wound to his throat in Monmouth Township, Warren County,
Illinois; Illinois death records indicate he was single at the time.
1850 US Census: Of possible interest, a Garrett
Ahern, age 25 (b. Ireland) was a prisoner in St. Louis, Missouri.
1860 US Census: Of possible interest, a Garrit Ahern, age 25 (b. Ireland) and employed as a farmer,
resided in the household headed by Mike Gleason, age 27, at Springfield, Sangomon County, Illinois.
Garrit's personal property was valued at $300.
1870 US Census: No clear record found.
2. Wife: Ellen Mar
Chapin
Born 28 October 1836 in Granville Township, Washington County, New
York; daughter of Alvin (b. 3 Sep 1798 in Heath Twp, Franklin Co., MA, d. 29 Oct 1884) and Mary "Polly" (Brewster) Chapin (b. 22 Oct 1796 in CT/VT, d. 30 Jun 1882 in Waltham
Twp, LaSalle Co., IL). Died 13 February
1922 in Des Moines Township, Boone County, Iowa; interred Missouri. Married (1st) Garrett Hooper Ahern on 23
March 1869 at La Salle, La Salle Co., IL); perhaps divorced about 1869 (since
Ellen was referred to by her maiden name, Chapin, in 1870, while part of her
father's household, and at the same time her 8-month-old son, Frank, had
surname Ahern).
Ellen (Chapin) Ahern married (2nd) Edward Marshall Lennox (b. 11 Mar 1832
in Aughrim, Co. Londonderry, Ireland, d. 9 May 1910
in West Plains Twp, Howell Co., MO), who was employed as a farmer, and
apparently had 1 child, who died before 1900.
Edward and Ellen (Chapin)(Ahern) Lennox were
divorced before 1900.
1850 US Census: Alvin Chapin, age 52 (b. MA) and
employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Waltham Township, LaSalle
County, Illinois. His real estate was
valued at $1,000. The household also
included his wife, Mary Chapin, age 54 (b. ?, perhaps
PA or VT); son, Oscar Chapin, age 22 (b. NYS) and employed as a farmer;
daughter, Clarissa Chapin, age 21 (b. NYS); son, John Chapin, age 17 (b. NYS)
and employed as a farmer; daughter, Ellen Chapin, age 13 (b. NYS);
and son, Alvin Chapin, age 10 (b. NYS).
1860 US Census: Alvin Chapin age 61 (b. VT) and
employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Waltham Township, LaSalle
County, Illinois. His real estate was
valued at $6,000, and his personal property was valued at $1,500. The household also included his wife, Mary
Chapin, age 63 (b. VT); son, John Chapin, age 27 (b. NYS); daughter, Ellen Chapin, age 23 (b. NYS); son, Alvin Chapin, age 20 (b. NYS); John Hunt?, age 23 (b. OH) and employed as a farm laborer; and James Larnall?, age 17 (b. Ireland) and employed as a farm
laborer.
1870 US Census: Alvin Chapin, age 71 (b. MA) and
employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Waltham Township, LaSalle
County, Illinois. His real estate was
valued at $8,000 and his personal property was valued at $1,500. The household also included his wife, Mary
Chapin, age 73 (b. VT); daughter, Ellen Chapin, age 23 (b. NYS);
James Dougherty, age 19 (b. TN) and employed as a farm laborer; and Frank Ahern, age 8 months (b. Sep 1869 in IL). (enumerated
17 Aug 1870) Of interest, the households
headed by Alvin Chapin, Jr., age 30 (b. NYS) and Oscar Chapin, age 42 (b. NYS)
were enumerated next door.
1880 US Census: Ed M. Lennox, age 47 (b. Scotland;
parents b. Scotland) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household in Union
Township, Benton County, Indiana. The
household also included his wife, Ellen M. Lennox, age 41 (b.
NYS; father b. MA; mother b. VT); step-son, Frank N. Ahern, age 11 (b. IL;
father b. Ireland; mother b. NYS), in school and employed doing farm labor; and
hired man, Jacob W. Lonylond, age 39 (b. NYS; father
b. PA; mother b. Canada) and employed doing farm labor.
3. Children: (order uncertain)
a. Child: Likely died before 1870, when it appears
this child's mother was separated from, if not divorced from, its father, and
this child's brother, Frank Ahern, was an 8-month old infant.
b. Frank Nelson Ahern: See generation 3,
below.
3 Frank Nelson Ahern
1. Biographical notes:
Born 21 October 1869 (1870 US Census record says b. Sep 1869) in Waltham
Township, La Salle County, Illinois.
Died 3 April 1951 in Douglas County, Missouri; interred Mount Tabor
Cemetery, Ava, Douglas County, Missouri.
Employed as a clergyman.
1900 US Census: (enumerated 2 Jun 1900) Frank Ahern,
age 30 (b. Oct 1869 in IL; father b. IL; mother b. NYS) and employed as a
clergyman, was heading a household in Marion Township, Mercer County,
Missouri. The household also included
his wife, Anna Ahern, age 24 (b. Dec 1875 in TN; parents b. TN), who had had no
children [but was pregnant, and died from complications of child birth about 2
weeks later]; and mother, Ellen
M. Lennox, age 62 (b. Oct 1837 in NYS;
father b. MA; mother b. VT) and divorced, who had had 2 children, 1 of whom was
still alive.
1910 US Census: Frank N. Ahern, age 40 (b. IL;
parents b. unknown) and employed as a Methodist clergyman, was heading a
household at 312 Sheridan Avenue, in the City of Shenandoah, Grant Township,
Page County, Iowa. He had been married
twice. The household also included his
wife of 10 years, Lena E. Ahern, age 26 (b. MO), who had been married once and
had had 4 children, all still alive; son, Robert N. Ahern, age 7 (b. MO); son,
Alvin A. Ahern, age 4 (b. IA); daughter, Anna L. Ahern, age 2 (b. IA); son, Benjiman T. Ahern, age 2 months (b. IA); and boarder,
Eunice L. Medlock, age 12 (b. MO; father b. MO; mother b. IN).
1920 US Census: Frank Ahern, age 50 (b. IL; father
b. NYS; mother b. KY) and employed as a farmer, was heading a household on Rock
Bridge Road in Burdine Township, Texas County,
Missouri. The household also included
his wife, Rena Ahern, age 35 (b. MO; parents b. MO); son, Albert Ahern, age 17
(b. MO) and single; son, Alvin Ahern, age 14 (b. IA); daughter, Anna Ahern, age
12 (b. IA); son, Dwaine Ahern, age 6 (b. IA); and daughter, Ellen Ahern, age 3
years and 10 months (b. IA).
1930 US Census: No clear record found.
1940 US Census: Frank N. Ahern, age 70 (b. IL) and
employed as a minister, was heading a household at 109 West Broadway Street in
El Dorado Springs, Box Township, Cedar County, Missouri. He had completed 8th grade. The household also included his wife, Lena
Ahern, age 56 (b. MO), who had completed 8th grade; son, Benton Ahern, age 18
(b. MO), single, and in school, who had completed 6th grade; and boarder, James
J. Overton, age 41 (b. Joplin, MO) and employed as a Minister of the Gospel,
who had completed 6th grade. On 15 April
1935 Frank, Lena, and Benton resided in the same house; James resided in the
same township.
2. Wife #1: Anna
Bartlett
a. Biographical notes:
Born December 1875 in Osgood Township, Sullivan
County, Missouri (also seen: b. TN). Died there 15 June 1900 from complications of child birth, about 3
days before. Married Frank N.
Ahern on 23 October 1898 in Holt County, Missouri and had the following son:
b. Child:
(1. Paul Bartlett Ahern: Born 12 June 1900 in Osgood
Township, Sullivan County, Missouri.
3. Wife #2: Lena Elna May (Phebus) Cleeton
a. Biographical notes:
Born 22 December 1884 in Sullivan County,
Missouri; daughter of John
Wilson and Lavonia (Cleeton)
Phebus. Died 24 November 1951 in Missouri. Married (1st) (?) Cleeton
and had the following daughter:
(1. Belva Lee Cleeton: Born 19 August 1897 in Missouri. Died 19 December 1953. Married (1st) John Karbach
(b. 12 Oct 1878 in Chillicothe Twp, Livingston Co., MO, d.
27 Sep 1960 at Brookfield, Linn Co., MO).
Belva (Cleeton) Karbach married (2nd), as his 2nd wife, Jesse Lewis Dale
(b. 1890, d. 1963), who had married (1st) Anna L. Hudgins (b. 1882 in KS).
Lena Elna Cleeton married (2nd) Frank N. Ahern on 1 January 1902 in
Sullivan County, Missouri and had the following children:
b.
Children:
(1. Robert N. Ahern: Born about 1903 in Missouri.
(2. Alvin A. Ahern: See generation 2,
below.
(3. Anna Louvonia Ahern:
Born 2 December 1907 in Iowa. Died 15 February 1989 at San Diego, San Diego County, California. Married (?) Jenkins.
(4. Benjamin Titus Ahern: Born 19 January 1910 in
Grant Township, Page County, Iowa. Died before 1920.
(5. Frank Duane/Dwaine Ahern: Born 23 April 1913 in
Iowa. Died 22 May 1932
in Diagonal Township, Ringgold County, Iowa.
(6. Ellen Loretta Loraine Ahern: Born 27 March 1917
in Lincoln Township, Page County, Iowa. Died . Married (?) Adams.
(7. Benton Eugene Ahern: Born 1 July 1921 in College
Springs Township, Page County, Iowa. Died August 1985 at South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County, California.
2 Alvin A. Ahern, ThD
1. Biographical notes:
Born 19 August 1905 in Iowa. Died 28 December 1997 in Litchfield Township, Hartfield
County, Connecticut. Employed as Methodist Minister and Professor of Theology. Resided at Seattle,
Washington; New York City, and Long Island.
1930 US Census: There was an Alvin A. Ahern, age 24
(b. IA; father b. IL; mother b. MO), single, and employed as a public school
teacher, boarded in the household headed by Mary M. Bailey, age 62 (b. IA;
father b. OH; mother b. MA) and widowed, in Bennington Township, Ottawa County,
Kansas.
1940 US Census: Alvin Ahern, age 34 (b. IA) and
employed as head master and teacher, residing at the Home for Fundless and Female Guardian Society in Bronx County, New
York. He had completed 5 years of
college. His wife, Helen Ahern, age 30
(b. IA) and employed as a house mother, resided with him; she had completed 5
years of college. In April 1935 they
both resided in Manhattan, New York.
2. Wife: Helen A.
Green
Born February 1910 in Iowa; daughter of Orville John (b. 7 Mar 1872 in Palmyra Twp, Jefferson Co., WI, d, 1938) and Evaline (Dryer) Green (b. 10 Feb 1870 in WI, d. 10 Feb 1951 in McPherson
Co., KS). Died 2001.
3. Children:
a. Frank Ahern: Married Merete Taylor, daughter of
Clifton Bradley and Vera Elizabeth (Chisolm) Taylor.
b. William "Bill" Ahern: Married Sharon
(?).
c. Wilbert “Bert”
Harrell Ahern: See generation 1, below.
d. Thomas Robert "Bob" Ahern: Married Kathleen Agnes Berendt and had the following children:
(1. Patrick Joseph Ahern: Born 1947
in Minnesota.
(2. Colleen Mary Genace Ahern: Born 1951 in Minnesota.
(3. Bridget Kathleen Ahern: Born 1957
in Minnesota.
e. Helen Ahern: Married John (?).
1 Wilbert Harrell Ahern, PhD:
"Bert"
Born Sunday, 12 July 1942 at Greenville, Bond
County, Illinois.
Died Wednesday, 6 July 2000. Married Janet Louise Turbyne, descendant 3.2 of generation 13 of the
Ancestors of Louisa Mehitable (Drake) Cool on 28 December 1963.
See Janet's Page
for More Info
Other, still unidentified,
Ahern names:
1. (?) Ahern: Born in Ireland.
Married (?)
and perhaps had the following children:
a. John Ahern: Born about 1820 in Ireland. Married (?) and had the following son:
(1. John
Ahern, Jr.: Born about 1846 in Ireland.
b. David Ahern: Born about 1820 in Ireland.
1860 US
Census: Peter Gallagher, age 28 (b. Ireland) and employed as a laborer, was
heading a household in Dayton Township, LaSalle County, Illinois. His personal property was valued at $40. The household also included his wife, Julia
Gallagher, age 29 (b. Ireland); daughter, Ellen Gallagher, age 7 (b. IL);
daughter, Mary Ann Gallagher, age 9 months; servant, Johanna Roach, age 18 (b.
Ireland); David
Ahern, age 40 (b.
Ireland) and employed as a farmer, whose real estate was valued at $4,000 and
personal property was valued at $300; Patrick Ahern, age 4 (b. IL); Ellen Ahern, age 3 (b. IL); James Ahern, age 2 (b. IL); John Ahern, age 40 (b. Ireland) and employed as a laborer; and John Ahern, Jr., age 14 (b. Ireland) and employed
as a laborer.
David Ahern
married (?) and had the following children:
(1.
Patrick Ahern: Born about 1856 in Illinois.
(2.
Ellen Ahern: Born about 1857 in Illinois.
(3. James
Ahern: Born about 1858 in Illinois.
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