ON OR ABOUT THIS DAY IN PHIL’S ARCHIVES
Blog Posts 2022-2024
On This Day….my grandparents were married.
Mary Ellen McGovern 1889-1946
born in Cornalon, Swanlinbar, County Cavan
Known as an “Eliza McGovern”….
Happy St. Patrick’s Day…Here in the USA, we say “we are Irish”. But I imagine my brethren in Ireland hear this and wonder, “What are those yanks thinking? They don’t know what they say. They are American”….
January 22, 1892. 130 Years ago. Today I celebrate my Grand Uncle Greg McGovern’s baptism. Yep, I missed his birthday on January 19….
40 years ago today. It was 40 years ago today, my Dad, Emmett Gregory McGovern (1925-1982) died of a heart attack….
Fr. Martin Patrick Fallon – 40 years. Born February 9, 1919 at 513 S. California Ave., Chicago, Illinois Died February 2, 1982….
