Andrew Dempsey Jr. (1842 - 1901)

Born 1842 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 10 Oct 1901 at about age 59 in Danville, Illinois

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Biography

Andrew was born in Ireland in 1842, son of Andrew Dempsey and Anne Cuskley. He arrived in the United States in 1849 and lived in Rochester, New York. He served in the Civil War in Iowa. He married Sarah Peterson. They lived in Chicago, Illinois, and had five children. Sarah died in 1883. He later lived in Danville (Vermillion County), Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin (in 1900 in the National Home for Disabled Soldiers), and again Danville, where he died in 1901. He was buried in Danville National Cemetery.

Sources

U.S. Census, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 1870, 1880 (Andrew Dempsey) --Ancestry.com OR https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M67N-GXH

FindAGrave, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2564624

Hendrick Family Tree, http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/26649301/person/12447290753

James Neuhauser Family Tree, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/32049461/person/20356666989

Acknowledgment

Roger S. Peterson-2111 started this profile. This account is dependent on the Hendrick Family Tree for the Sarah of the 1880 census being our Sarah Peterson. Other than for that fact the Hendrick Family Tree appears to be carefully sourced.