Thomas Daily and some descendents

A brief genealogy from my mother's side of the family....

Thomas Daily came to American sometime around the beginning of the revolutionary war. He is married in the 1790 census and found in the Fawn, York County, Pennsylvania. Although not listed in this census, he is married to Margaret Laycock (Laycox). By 1810 they are in Avon, Ontario County, New York.

By 1820 Thomas daughter Nancy is married to Luman Keyes. They had several children and moved to the Mishawaka/South Bend, Indiana area around 1836. They had a daughter, Mary Ann who married John Alsop Stiles.

John and Mary Ann were married in 1841 and had several children. This was John's second marriage, his first wife having died not many years after arriving in the Mishawaka area. He had one surviving son from his first marriage.

By 1850 John and Mary Ann had 5 children and within a week after the last son was born, Mary Ann died, on July 3, 1850. Their daughter, Frances Jane Stiles, was born in 1845 and was left orphaned, along with her siblings in November of that year when their father died also, from organic disease of the brain. (I'm not really sure what that would have been.)

The St. Joseph County archives has an incredible folder that is filled with all kinds of receipts for the estate of John Stiles. There are also the guardianship papers for the children. Frances (Fannie) and her older brother, Chester Leander Stiles, who went by Lee, were the only children from that marriage to live to adulthood.  (The signature by May in the document above was one of Lee's daughter's who married Schyler Colfax Rose.)

Fannie married Byron O'Connor and I have already posted a newspaper article marking their marriage in 1868. Fannie and Byron were the parents of my great-grandmother, Eugenia Maude O'Connor, born June 29, 1872.