Connell O'Donnell and Alice Dougan

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Husband Connell O'Donnell ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - County Donegal, Ireland
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           Died: 1813 or 1825 - Butler Co, PA 2 4
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         Father: [Father] O'Donnell (      -      )
         Mother: 

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       Marriage:  - County Donegal, Ireland

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Wife Alice Dougan ⁴

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            AKA: Mary [Unk] 2
           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: 1854 4
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Children

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1 M Hugh O'Donnell ^{3 5}

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           Born: 1 Jan 1796 - Westmoreland Co, PA 4
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           Died: 13 Jun 1879 6
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         Spouse: Esther Fagan (1809-      ) 4
           Marr: 28 Jan 1834 4

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2 M John O'Donnell ^{4 5}

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3 M Charles O'Donnell ^{4 5}

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4 M Dennis O'Donnell ^{4 5}

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           Died: Aft 1893
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5 M James O'Donnell ^{4 5}

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6 F Bridget O'Donnell ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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7 F Mary O'Donnell ^{2 4 5}

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           Died: Aft 1895
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         Spouse: Henry Slator (1816-1849) 2

         Spouse: [Unk] Callen (      -      ) 2

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8 F Ellen O'Donnell ^{4 5}

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         Spouse: [Unk] Henry (      -      ) 5

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9 F [Unk] O'Donnell

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           Born: Abt 1807
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           Died: Aft 1883
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         Spouse: [Unk] Reid (      -1852) 7

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General Notes: Husband - Connell O'Donnell

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Near the beginning of the 1800s, he emigrated from Ireland, and settled in Clearfield Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, on the farm later occupied by Joseph Lane. He was a tailor by trade, and made clothes for the settlers for miles around. Finding business dull at home, he sought work in Ohio, and there took the fever and ague, from which he died. He reared eight children. [HBC 1883, 296]

He was one of the first settlers of what is now Clearfield township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, where he located in 1798. He was a native of County Donegal, Ireland, was there married, and subsequently immigrated with his family to the United States. He erected his cabin in the midst of the primitive forest, his neighbors being principally natives of Ireland. The township in which he lived, upon the organization of Butler County, was named Donegal, because of the large number of its inhabitants who came from that county in their native land. Connell became quite a famous hunter, and supported his family from the fruits of the chase, together with what little he could raise on a small patch of ground which the family cleared the first few years of their settlement. He died in 1813, leaving to his wife the care of a family of eight children. She, however, was equal to the occasion, and with the assistance of her children, cleared and improved the farm, and resided thereon until her death. They were pioneer members of St. Patrick's Catholic church, at Sugar Creek. [HBC 1895, 950]

He came to the United States in the latter part of the seventeenth century. He settled first in Philadelphia, and when Ohio was made a state set out with a company for that then wild region, but, falling ill, was left behind in Westmoreland County. Thence he migrated in 1797 to Pittsburgh, hiring a house on the corner of Third and Market streets at an annual rent of twenty dollars. He was a tailor and followed his trade during the winters, going in the summers to Butler County, where he had previously purchased land from the government for fifty cents an acre, ten cents down and the remainder payable in twenty years, at no interest. He cultivated this land, spending his winters in Pittsburgh until 1801, when he settled permanently on his farm, where he had built a log cabin. It was there he passed the remaining years of his life, a period of more than twenty years, but was several times driven from his land by the Indians. He enlisted in the One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Regiment, Pennsylvania Militia, and served in the war with the Creek Indians on the Columbia river, David Boyle being the captain of his company and James Gillespie the first lieutenant. He was a Roman Catholic, and when living in Pittsburgh, where there was no church of that faith, mass was celebrated in his tailor shop. [PAHP iii, 205]

1 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 296.

2 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (R. C. Brown & Co. Publishers, 1895), Pg 950.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 205.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 206.

5 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 297.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 207.

7 —, History of Butler County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1883), Pg 323.