McCaffrey and McGee

I saw a post regarding Edward Turner who married Margaret (McGee) from Garryowen, requesting information on Edward’s origins.  Their son, John Turner was murdered and when I found an article on that, it stated that John’s cousin was Owen McCaffrey.  I had done some research on McCaffrey’s origins, so started trying to find their connection.  This led me to Patrick (pfturner)’s Turner-Faber online genealogy which included both men and their ancestors.  Turns out that Owen’s mother, Elizabeth (McGee) was a sister to Margaret (McGee).  Turner-Faber also had more information on Owen’s grandmother, Bridget, who raised him and his sister after their parents died in a cholera epidemic.  This led me to a post by Patrick regarding Owen’s first wife, Bridget McCaffrey.  Her obituary in a Maquoketa newspaper said she was buried in Deep Creek cemetery and he wanted to know if that cemetery still existed.  Suspecting that it was in Clinton Co., I checked their genweb.  On a listing for Assumption Cemetery, I found an entry for “Brogeta McCaffreu” whose death date closely matched that of Bridget McCaffrey.  So Assumption Cemetery was apparently known as Deep Creek Cemetery at one time.  I still cannot find Owen in census records between 1856 & 1880.  © 2011 LuAnn Goeke