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The upper photo on the facing page shows the Harrington family, and was taken about 1890. The father, John Harrington, died in 1879, and one girl, Margaret, had died as an twelve year old child in 1872. The surviving members are as follows:

Seated, left to right - Mary Ann (Harrington) Lyons, born 1858, wife of Jer Lyons.

Mary (Horen) Harrington, mother of the family, born in1838 in .

Sarah (Harrington) Roche, wife of Phil Roche.

Annie (Harrington) Fleming, wife of Bernard Fleming.

Standing, left to right - Margaret (Harrington) Soelfohn, born 1873, wife of Louis Soelfohn. After Louis' death Margaret married John Walsh.

Maurice Harrington, born 1857. He married Kathryn Lyons.

Katie (Harrington) Walsh, first wife of John Walsh.

Missing from photo - Lizzie (Harrington) Mullaney, wife of John Mullaney.

The lower photo on the facing page shows four of the daughters of Jerry and Ellen (Whalen) Lyons. It was taken in Madison, South Dakota in 1890.

Starting at the top and proceeding clockwise they are as follows:

Ellen (Lyons) Coughlin, wife of James Coughlin. Ellen was born in in 1849

Bridget (Lyons) Rei, wife of John Rei. Bridget was born in Ireland in 1844.

Margaret (Lyons) Kane, wife of Timothy Kane. Margaret is the oldest child in the family and was born in Ireland in 1842.

Kathryn (Lyons) Harrington, wife of Maurice Harrington. Kate was born in Chicago in 1857.

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On the facing page the figure on the left is Johanna Lyons, second wife of Pat Lyons. This marriage produced three children; Pat, William, and Bridget (Lyons) Delaney. Johanna also had two daughters by previous marriages and Pat had three children by his first marriage so it was a case of "your kids, my kids, and our kids". They were married in Illinois, lived in the Irish community near Burr Oak, Iowa, while the kids were growing up, and then homesteaded in Dakota in the 1880s. Johanna is seated in front of their house on the farm that is now known as the Deragish place, in Nunda Township, she died there in 1900.

The figure on the right is Johanna's son, Pat, who was the principal farmer when they lived on that place. Pat never married, and came upon hard times in later life, he died in Sioux City in the 'thirties.

The couple pictured at the top of the facing page is Mary Ann and Jeremiah (Jer) Lyons. They were married In the Plymouth Rock Catholic Church near Burr Oak, Iowa, in 1882 and left to homestead In Dakota Territory a few days after the wedding. Mary Ann's maiden name was Harrington, she was born In New York in 1858, Jer was born in Chicago in 1855. The house of the place that they homesteaded is in the southeast quarter of section eight, In Nunda Township; Mary Ann continued to live there until her death in 1943, Jer had died in 1893 from pneumonia. Five children were born to this rnarrlage: Bessie (Lyons) Schuster, Richard Lyons, John Lyons, Nelle (Lyons) Mailand, and Mary (Lyons) McDonald.

Will Lyons, younger brother of Jer, is shown at lower left, Will was a young boy when the Lyons family moved from Chicago to Iowa. He came to Dakota In 1884 and farmed and managed a large operation In partnership with his brothers for a time, winning a lifetime nickname as "The Boss" in the process. He was married in 1887 to Kate Crossgrove, he and Miss Kitty raised a large family; eight of the thirteen survived to become adults, including Dennis, Ann, James, Jerry, Bill, Mary Robinson, Tom and Bob. After Will's father died In 1894, he and Miss Kitty moved onto his place, adjacent to the now widowed Mary Ann, and these two sets of cousins grew up as close neighbors until the Will Lyons family moved to Charles Mix County In 1901.

The three boys together are three of the Coughlin children, sons of Ellen (Lyons) Coughlin, who was a sister to Jer and Will. Her husband, James, and another brother, Richard Lyons, were partners In a Mercantile business In Carthage, S. Dak., and the Coughlin family of ten children grew up there. The boys shown In the photo are Will, Rich and John. The other children are Thomas ("Brick"), Carthage, Joseph, Margaret Weiland, Charlie, Mary Sheets, and Catherine.

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The three figures on the upper left of the facing page show Sarah (Donlon) Lyons flanked by two of her children, Josephine (Lyons) Peisch and Thomas Lyons. Sarah was a school teacher in and around Burr Oak, Iowa, around 1880, one of her pupils there became famous in later life as Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of The Little House on the Prairie, and other books of that series. Sarah married Richard Lyons after his first wife died, they raised a large family while living in Carthage, and later in Vermillion, South Dakota. Jo married Arch Peisch, a professor at Dartmouth University, they had three boys, Francis, Mark and Dan. Tom, like several of his brothers, became an attorney, and eventually served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. Other children of this family were Jeremiah, Richard, Sarah, Alice, James, Margaret, Robert Donlon, William and Dennis.

The fourth figure in the top row is Joe Flynn. Joe's parents, Tom and Ellen (Whalen) Flynn came from Iowa and homesteaded in Nunda Twp. Their children were John, Joe, Mame Kehrwaid, and Julia McCabe, all except Julia were childless. John and Joe farmed the home place as partners until their deaths in 1964, and were leading citizens in the area. Joe, who was a veteran of WWI, was married to Matilda Schnell.

On the left In the bottom row is Nan Rei, later Nan Coffey, who was the only child of John and Bridget (Lyons) Rei, Rei's homesteaded what is now known as the Demarey place in Nunda Twp. Nan and Ed Coffey had one child, an adopted son, Joe Coffey, who later farmed the same place. Joe's daughter, Patty, and her brother were cared for by the Bill McGinty family In Nunda after Joe and his wife were divorced.

Next to Nan is John Harrington, the only child of Maurice and Kathryn (Lyons) Harrington, who lived near Nunda briefly and farmed south of Madison for many years. John's three children, Marlfrances, Peggy and John were frequent visitors to the Madison and Nunda areas In the 1930s.

The remaining two are Angela (Lyons) Haney, and her brother, Dennis Lyons, who are two of the children of Dennis A. and Catherine (Fitzgerald) Lyons, of Cresco, Iowa. Other children of that family include Mame McHugh, Jeremiah, John, Joseph, Gerald and Leonard. '" On the facing page we again Introduce The Boss and Miss Kitty, taking their ease on the car's running board, along with Will's sister, Kate (Lyons) Harrington.

Beside them, Nan and Ed Coffey pose in a portrait that shows why they were thought to be one of the most handsome couples In the community.

One summer day in 1934, part of the Richard and Sarah (Donlon) Lyons family were standing around on the lawn, visiting, so somebody gathered them together Into a bunch and took a snapshot. Sarah Is at the left, fifty years have passed since we saw her earlier photo as the teacher of Laura Ingalls, she has weathered them well. Archibald and Josephine (Lyons) Peisch stand next, then Sarah, Jo's older sister, with her arms on the shoulders of her nephews, Francis and Mark Peisch. Sarah's brother James stands behind her while another brother, Jerry, and a sister, Margaret, complete the scene.

We also have here a third photo opportunity to meet Mary Ann (Harrington) Lyons, nearing eighty now, and still busy with the farm that she and Jer built. Here she rests for a moment from the day's toil, In the company of her grandson, Dick McDonald, and her dog, Rusty. '"

The facing page shows us an 1899 portrait of two young cousins who were also neighbors, Mary Lyons (later to be Mrs. John McDonald), youngest daughter of Jer and Mary Ann, and Jerry Lyons, 4th child of The Boss and Miss Kitty. Jerry was to become an Omaha dentist in later life.

Thirty years later, Mary was at home on the McDonald farm when her sister Nelle Mailand came to visit, driving the 1929 Nash automobile that their brother, John Lyons, had recently purchased. It seemed like a good day for some pictures, so Mary posed, first with sister Nelle, and then with her five children; Genevieve, Dick, Billy, Dean and Jerry. About that same time, a small, noisy biplane came droning around the area, taking pictures of farms, and hoping to sell the result to the farmers. It worked out in this case, so that the farm where John and Mary McDonald were raising their young family, and where The Boss and Miss Kitty had lived when Mary and Jerry sat for that portrait, was duly pictured for posterity.

Mary (Lyons) McDonald appears again on the facing page, this time holding her first child, Genevieve, as a baby. John McDonald appears to their right, he came to the Nunda area from Stillwater, Minnesota as a young man In 1913, looking for work. They farmed in the Nunda area all of their married lives, John died In 1965 and Mary in 1971.

Shortly before the turn of the century, Margaret and Tim Kane In Chicago decided to give in to daughter Loretta, ("Etta"), and to let her have her picture taken In a studio in a grown up dress. Etta stretched and posed pensively in the best gay nineties style while the photographer and his camera hid beneath his shawl, opened his shutter, and fired off his flash powder, capturing this delightful Image for us. A few years later, Joe Coffey's mother, Nan, "dressed him to the nines" and took him off to the more modern new studio In Madison for the Hollywood- like result shown next to Etta.

This facing page is given over to pictures of the McDonald kids at tender ages. In 1926, Aunts and Uncles from Stillwater, Minnesota came visiting and put two- year-old Billy on the hood of their car for a snapshot. Earlier, Genevieve and Dickie had faced the studio camera in Madison, and, later, Billy had a turn there also. Still later, he was back again, this time with younger brothers Dean and Jerry.

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The upper half of the collage on the facing page relates to the Dahl School, which was in the southeast corner of section 27 in Nunda Township. Viola Overski, daughter of Olai Overski, was the teacher there in the school year 1930-31, and had this little souvenir booklet prepared for her students at the end of the year. The student body, shown against the backdrop of Vlola's new Plymouth, consists of Sylvia Dahl, Milo Stevenson, Dick McDonald, Carl Dahl, Bill McDonald, Jackie Hoidal and Kermit Alfson. The McDonald contingent had only just arrived a few months earlier, on moving day, March 1st, 1931. Six years later,iIn 1937, the Dahl School student body was photographed again - Bill McDonald (grade 8) and Jackie Hoidal (grade 7) were the only holdovers, Dean McDonald stands with them in the back row. Flanking Dean are Jerry McDonald and Ernest Dahl, these five had constituted the entire student body up until March 1st, when the three Schuler brothers and the Hagedorn boy moved in. Our teacher that year was Ann (Overski) Webster, a younger sister to Viola.

The lower section shows a barefoot Jerry McDonald feeding a pet lamb in 1933, and his sister Genevieve with the family pony, Teddy, In 1937. Her letter "E” represents Eastern Normal School In Madison, later renamed "General Beadle State Teacher's College" and now known as "Dakota State".

The remaining snapshot shows Mary Ann (Harrington) Lyons In 1938, assembled with her six granddaughters for her 80th birthday. Typically, the scene was moved outside for the picture, to get enough light for the camera. Starting on the left, the roll call of granddaughters Is shown below (married names are shown although all were single at the time).

Rita Schuster, Genevieve (McDonald) Olson, Eileen (Malland) Bearss, Mary Ann (Lyons) Bodensteiner, June (Schuster) Rounds and Mary (Schuster) Schnell 4.5.

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This final page of our family photo album gives a few glimpses into the McDonald family as time goes on. The scenes of John mowing hay with his favorite team were taken in 1939. The land where they work is the same land where David Molumby and his wife, Mary (Crossgrove) Molumby were raising their family when we looked in on them in 1887. Mary's cousin, Kate Crossgrove, was living with them then, teaching school, and Will Lyons was courting Kate.

As the nineteen forties came on many young men, including Jerry and Bill, were seen in uniform, as here, Much later still, in 1979, the surviving McDonalds were together on the occasion of the marriage of Maureen Olson, daughter of Harry and Genevieve (McDonald) Olson, to Dick Mumbleau. Dick had died in 1951, John in 1965 and Mary in 1971. Jerry, Dean, Genevieve and Bill are shown here, reading left to right.

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