Descendants of Jeremiah HAGGERTY:

 1   Jeremiah HAGGERTY b: Abt. 1826 in Pennsylvania  d: November 06, 1881 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA Burial: St. Mary's R.C., Crown, Clarion Co., PA
..  +Magdalena "Lena" BOSTAPH b: October 10, 1835 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA m: Abt. 1855 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA d: 1901 in Kane, McKean Co., PA Burial: St. Mary's R.C., Crown, Clarion Co., PA
..... 2   Catherine "Kate" HAGGERTY b: 1856 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., Pennsylvania  d: Aft. 1931 in Brooklyn, Kings Co. NY
.........  +P. GRAHAM b: Abt. 1855 m: Abt. 1878 d: in Brooklyn, Kings Co. NY
..... 2   Mary Ann HAGGERTY b: 1858 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., Pennsylvania  d: Bef. 1931
.........  +James KELLY b: January 1857 in PA m: Abt. 1887
..... 2   Elizabeth Jane HAGGERTY b: 1861 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA  d: February 09, 1931 in Hornell, Steuben Co., NY Burial: St. Ann's Cem., Hornell, NY
.........  +William Henry CLARK b: July 18, 1857 in Venango Co., PA m: May 12, 1886 in Warren, Warren Co., PA d: October 21, 1920 in Hornell, Steuben Co., NY Burial: St. Ann's Cem., Hornell, Steuben Co., NY
..... 2   Rebecca A. "Becky" HAGGERTY b: 1865 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., Pennsylvania  d: Abt. 1952 in Jeffersonville, Sullivan Co., NY
..... 2   Magdalena "Lena" HAGGERTY b: 1867 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., Pennsylvania  d: Aft. 1931
.........  +Horace FORTNEY b: August 1862 in PA m: Abt. 1900
..... 2   Jeremiah "Jerry" HAGGERTY b: 1871 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., Pennsylvania
.........  +Margrath b: 1867 m: Abt. 1896
..... 2   Jane C. HAGGERTY b: 1873 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., Pennsylvania  d: Bef. 1901
..... 2   Fanny HAGGERTY b: March 1876 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., Pennsylvania
.........  +Frank RITTER b: August 1872 in PA m: Abt. 1901
..... 2   Thomas L. HAGGERTY b: 1879 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., Pennsylvania  d: Bef. 1901
..... 2   Frederick HAGGERTY b: 1882 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA  d: 1882 in Farmington Twp., Clarion Co., PA Burial: St. Marys Cem., Crown, Clarion Co., PA

Notes on Jeremiah Haggerty:
Jeremiah Haggerty owned 147 acres in the extreme northern section of Farmington Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania near the towns of Crown and Vowinkle.  Nothing is known yet about his parents other than that his father was born in Ireland and his mother in Virginia according to census information.  Also according to the census he was probably born in 1826 although his gravestone at St. Mary's Cemetery in Crown gives his longevity as 1829-1881.  There is a huge gray granite marker with the name Haggerty and two smaller stones saying merely Father and Mother with the dates.  In 1997 Bernie Clark had their full names sand blasted into their stones.  To the left of Jeremiah's grave is another stone for Frederick born and died in 1882 after his father's death.  Jeremiah died intestate and with minor children. His only surviving son, Jerry, Jr., was only ten and not able to carry on the farming and timber cutting.  It was necessary to sell the farm at auction to pay the family debts.

Benjamin P. Norris says, "My great-grandfather James Hagerty ( 1843-1908) buried Jerry Haggerty and his children. They died during a diphtheria epidemic. "  Except for Frederick, who was born and died in 1882 there are no markers for the other children.  Two or three of them must have died during the epidemic.  James Hagerty was probably a cousin of Jeremiah Haggerty, but they spelled their names differently.  The original Irish name was Hegarty.

406     January Term 1883
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B.J & A.B. Reid          In the matter of the Estate  23 of  Jeremiah Haggerty Dec'd.
                                 Petition of sale of Real Estate
Clerk Burgoon $3.50
                       Paid

At an Orphans Court held at Clarion in and for the County of Clarion the 27" day of January A.D. 1883 was presented the petition of Michael McDonald administrator of Jeremiah Haggerty late of the Township of Farmington in said County of Clarion, deceased, respectfully represents: That the said Jeremiah Haggerty died on or about the ___day of ___ A.D. 18__ intestate leaving to survive him a widow Lena Haggerty, and children as follows: Catherine Graham, Mary Haggerty, and Elizabeth Haggerty who are of full age, and Rebecca Hagerty, Lena Haggerty, Jeremiah Haggerty and Fanny Hagerty, who are minors having no guardian of their estate, that the personal estate of said decedent is insufficient for the payment of his debts as will appear by a true and perfect inventory and conscionable appraisement of all the estate whatsoever of the said decedent and a just and true account of all the debts of said decedent which have come to the knowledge of the petitioner, said inventory and account being hereto annexed, and marked respectively Schedule "A" and "B".  The petitioner further represents that the said Jeremiah Haggerty died seized in his demesne as of for, of and in certain Real Estate situated in the Township of Farmington, particularly described in a statement hereto annexed, marked Schedule "C". The petitioner therefore prays the Court to order the mortgaging or sale of so much or such part of the said real estate as to the Court shall appear necessary for the payment of said debts and he will ever pray etc.

Order of Court-- And now Jan'y 27" on reading the within petition and after due consideration the Court order and decree that the petitioner raise the sum of three hundred dollars by a sale of so much of the timber of the Real Estate within mentioned as may be necessary to raise said sum and that the petitioner give bond in the sum of six hundred dollars with surety to be approved by the Court conditioned according to the Act of Assembly.
By the Court
Order of Sale issued Jan'y 29" 1883
Amount of schedule attached $278.38
     Schedule "C"
That certain tract of land situated in Farmington Township Clarion County Pennsylvania bounded on the North by Isaac Long, on the East by land of John Toomy and Michael McDonald and on the West by land of Thomas Wally, containing one hundred and thirty acres (130) more or less, said land being part farm and part timber land. [They had sold some of the 147 acres.]

Research done at Clarion Co. PA Court House 23 Oct 1995

Jeremiah Haggerty date of death 6 Nov 1881 at his home

Widow's Appraisment    Book F p 309 1882
Settlement  Book F p 142
Petition for Sale  Book F p 406 1883

Farmington Township Map

After the demise of Jeremiah Haggerty and the sale of the homestead Magdalena lived with her daughter Mary Ann Haggerty Kelly, son-in-law James Kelly and the Kelly children  in Kane, McKean County, PA until her death in 1901.  She was listed with them on the 1900 census as Lena Haggerty, M-in-Law, W [white], F [female], [birth] Oct 1835, [age] 64, W [widowed] S [single], mother of 13 children 7 living.  Three of the children's names were never on a census.  Thomas and Jane probably died young.  The informant mistakenly told the census enumerator that her father was born in Germany.  Her father, Andrew Bostaph, was born October 01, 1805 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  Her grandfather was born in Prussia and came to Pennsylvania in 1794.