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My great grandmother Alice Louise Donahue was born Feb. 14, 1884, the oldest of at least eight children. Alice would grow up to marry, and divorce, Edgar Louis Braunlin. The granddaughter of Irish immigrants who moved to the United States around the time of the Potato Famine died in 1966 near Dayton, Ohio. Patrick Donahoe was born in 1830 in Ireland. (The name’s spelling changed several times.) It is possible that he is the Patt Donahue who was aboard the Marathon that departed from Liverpool and arrived in New York City on November 20, 1850 although later census records indicate Patrick moved to America in 1853. Patrick moved to Ohio, and he became a naturalized U.S. citizen on October 12, 1865. He met and married Alice Welsh in the 1850. Alice was born in County Limerick, Ireland in 1838 and immigrated to the United States in 1851, according to her obituary in the Madison County Democrat. (I don’t know whether her father, Thomas Welsh or her mother – who had been a Conway – remained in Ireland.) Alice moved to South Charleston, Ohio (Clark County) where she married Patrick. The couple had a daughter who died as a child. Patrick and Alice had seven boys who lived to adulthood: Charles, Joseph, Edward, Henry, and William who lived in the Madison/Clark County area and Thomas and James who moved to Chicago. Patrick Donahoe died between 1900 and 1910. His wife, the former Alice Welsh, died on December 15, 1910 while living with her son William. Patrick and Alice’s oldest son appears to be Charles Donahoe, who was born in July 1858 in Madison County, Ohio. Charles married Mary Hickey and the couple had at least eight children, including my great grandmother. Mary Hickey - born in April 1860 in Clark County, Ohio - was the daughter of John Hickey and Mary Lanahan, both born in Ireland. John was naturalized as an American citizen on October 30, 1860. He isn’t listed with his wife in the 1870 Census. Mary Lanahan was apparently born about 1835. She had three children in 1870 – Mary, born April 15, 1860; John, 8; and Margarette, 5. By 1883 the younger Mary Hickey was 22 and marrying Charles Donahoe. The couple were married April 24, 1883 by The Reverend John S. Singleton, a Catholic priest. Charles, a farmer, and Mary settled in Madison County where they had at least eight children: Alice, Mary, Maggie, William, John, Bessie, Paul, and Leonard. Charles Donahoe died June 5, 1927 in Montgomery County. Mary (Hickey) Donahoe died April 10, 1934 of pneumonia. The couple had six children, including Alice, living in 1934.