The Quigley's emigrated from Ireland during the infamous potato famine. This was John Quigley who married Lizzie Norton of Massachusetts.They had thirteen children, the youngest of whom was my grandfather, John Joseph Quigley, born in 1888 in Burlington, Iowa.Family stayed there and grandfather married Helen Anna Welch. Grandfather and family moved to Council Bluffs between 1920 and 1930. Dad (Donald Francis) met and married Maxyne K. Ballew in Council Bluffs, IA. They married shortly before Pearl Harbor.The distaff side of the family (Gilbert Earl Ballew/ Clayo Knutsen), we believe,have connections to Iowa and Missouri. The Griffiths connections are to Sioux City, Iowa, and Nebraska through Paul Eugene Griffiths (b 1910). My husband's parents (Paul Eugene Griffiths/Genevieve Marie Brown) were married on New Year's Eve during the depression in Pender, Nebraska. Eventually they moved to Maryland. Paul's parents were James Alfred Griffiths/Rose Girardot; her parents were John Ambrose Brown/Catherine Everett. Interesting Tidbits:Gerald Ambrose Griffiths (uncle) boxed professionallly as Tuffy Griffiths, aka the Pender(Nebraska) Pounder.He fought Braddock in Madison Square Garden in 1928; lost to Max Baer in 1932.I have copies of an article from when he was posthumously installed in the Greater Sioux City Athletic Asso.Hall of Fame and an article in a boxing magazine. There seem to be a lot of connections to farming through the Griffiths/Brown side in Clay County/Palo Alto County, Iowa and Nebraska.On the Quigley/Welch side there are a lot of connections to the railroads in Burlington, IA.
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