History: Mrs. Maurice Casey/Johanna Hackett, Tullaroon (Calhoun County, Michigan)

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HISTORY: MRS. MAURICE CASEY/JOHANNA HACKETT, TULLAROON
	Historical Collections, Volume 21 By Michigan Pioneer and Historical
	Society, Michigan State Historical Soc. Memorial Report Calhoun County

Mrs. MAURICE CASEY.- JOHANNA HACKETT was born in Tullaroon, County
Kilkinney, Ireland, and came to America in 1839, settling in
Vermont, where her brother, the late TOBIAS HACKETT, followed her
the next year. Soon after she married THOS. CALLAN, and to them were
born four daughters and three sons. Mr. CALLAN died in 1858, and some
years after she married Mr. CASEY, they removing here in 1886. Mr.
CASEY died in Marshall about two years ago. Mrs CASEY was a kind
and loving wife, mother, sister, and made friends with everyone whom
She met. She was a zealous member of St. Mary's Catholic church of
Marshall, and after her death, Dec. 15, 1891, her remains were buried
in St. Mary's cemetery. One sister, Mrs. Patrick CONROY, of Marshall,
and three sons, JAMES B. CALLAN, of Bloomington, Ill., JOHN P. CALLAN,
of Aurora, Ill., and THOS F. CALLAN, of Joliet, Ill., and one daughter,
Mrs. ROSE McGREGOR, on Minneapolis, Minn., survive her.