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Descendants of Unknown 1 Hanratty

Generation No. 4

14. PATRICK JAMES⁴ HENRETTA (BENARD³ HANRATTY, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹) was born August 07, 1832 in Ireland, and died August 12, 1902 in Summerhill, Crawford, PA. He married ANN MARGARET FORD. She died 1922.

More About PATRICK JAMES HENRETTA:
Burial: August 15, 1902, St. Ptters, Crawford, PA

Children of PATRICK HENRETTA and ANN FORD are:

	i.	ALPHONSE⁵ HENRETTA, b. 1862.
26.	ii.	JAMES E. HENRETTA, b. 1863.
	iii.	SADIE "SARAH" HENRETTA, b. January 18, 1866.
27.	iv.	BERNARD JOSEPH HENRETTA, b. 1864.
28.	v.	MARY HENRETTA, b. 1868.
29.	vi.	GEORGE HENRETTA, b. August 28, 1871; d. July 30, 1950.

15. HUGH⁴ HANRATTY (BENARD³, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹) was born May 22, 1845 in Crawford Co, PA, and died January 28, 1917 in Rew, McKean Co., PA. He married MAILDA JANE SWEENEY November 13, 1866 in Meadville, PA, daughter of EDWARD SWEENEY and JANE MCLAUGHLIN. She was born August 12, 1847, and died December 05, 1926.

Notes for HUGH HANRATTY:
Kathryn Marie Armstrong (b. 8/7/1902) recalled to Beth Hulse on 1/13/1978:

Grandfather Hugh actually died of starvation. He was accustomed to pouring cream inton hot water to drink instead of coffee. The rich cream gathered on top of the water and burned his tongue. He didn't know it was so hot because the cream covered the water and kept the stem in.

Hugh smoked a pipe and had what the doctor called a "nicotine tooth". This rough tooth cut into the burn and got nicotine into it and kept it irretated until the sore spread into his throat. Dr. said it was cancer. He couldn't swallow and therefore couldn't eat.

Information from marriage certificate: (spelling is interesting)

Hugh Henretty of Conneautiville, PA and Matilda Sweeney of Crossingville, PA, married according to the rite of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, at Meadville, PA on the 13th day of November in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty , 1866

Witnesses: John T or J Henretta, Ellen Bradley, Father Delerock

More About HUGH HANRATTY:
Burial: St. Bernard Cemetary, Bradford, PA

Children of HUGH HANRATTY and MAILDA SWEENEY are:

30.	i.	THOMAS HUGH⁵ HANRATTY, b. December 21, 1867, Crawford Co., PA; d. April 17, 1943, Crawford Co, PA.
	ii.	JOHN EDWARD HANRATTY, b. February 11, 1871; d. February 24, 1871.
31.	iii.	MARY HARRIET HANRATTY, b. January 14, 1869, Crossingville, Crawford Co., PA; d. February 25, 1951, Rew, McKean Co., PA.
32.	iv.	CLARENCE LEO HENRETTA, b. February 17, 1889; d. June 22, 1957, Bradford, PA/Bradford, McKean Co., PA.
33.	v.	GRACE ESTHER HANRATTY, b. August 28, 1886.
34.	vi.	FRANCIS LENARD HENRETTA, b. May 26, 1885; d. January 27, 1954.
35.	vii.	CHARLES WILLIAM HENRETTA, b. March 06, 1882, Crossingville, PA; d. December 05, 1942.
36.	viii.	JAMES BERNARD HENRETTA, b. November 17, 1876; d. November 22, 1883.
	ix.	AMELIA JANE HANRATTY, b. June 12, 1875; d. September 22, 1875.
37.	x.	MARGARET ELIZABETH HANRATTY, b. January 14, 1872, Crawford Co, PA; d. October 19, 1930, Erie, PA.
	xi.	EDWARD VINCENT HANRATTY, b. May 21, 1879; d. October 31, 1883.

16. JOHN⁴ HENRIETTA (BENARD³ HANRATTY, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹) was born March 27, 1847 in Conneatville, Crawford, PA, and died October 15, 1893 in Meadville, Crawford, PA. He married ELIZABETH O'RIELLEY. She died April 25, 1910 in Crawford Co., PA.

More About JOHN HENRIETTA:
Burial: St. Bridgit's, Meadville, Crawford Co., PA

More About ELIZABETH O'RIELLEY:
Burial: St. Bridgit's, Meadville, Crawford Co., PA

Children of JOHN HENRIETTA and ELIZABETH O'RIELLEY are:

38.	i.	JOHN FRANCIS⁵ HENRIETTA, b. 1876; d. 1926.
	ii.	THERESA HENRIETTA.
39.	iii.	CHARLES EDWARD HENRIETTA, b. 1869.
	iv.	WILLIAM HENRIETTA, b. 1885, Crawford Co., PA; d. 1918.
	v.	MARGARET HENRIETTA.
	vi.	ELIZABETH HENRIETTA.
	vii.	MARY HENRIETTA, b. 1871; d. 1871.

17. BERNARD⁴ WHITE (MARY ANN³ HANRATTY, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹)

Children of BERNARD WHITE are:

	i.		WILLIAM⁵ WHITE.
	ii.		MARY WHITE.
	iii.		JOHN WHITE.

18. ROSE⁴ WHITE (MARY ANN³ HANRATTY, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹) She married BRIGHT.

Child of ROSE WHITE and BRIGHT is:

40.

DAVID⁵ BRIGHT.

19. ELLEN⁴ HANRATTY (JAMES B.³, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹) She married STEPHEN BRADLEY.

Children of ELLEN HANRATTY and STEPHEN BRADLEY are:

	i.		ROSE⁵ BRADLEY.
	ii.		JAMES BRADLEY.
	iii.		THOMAS BRADLEY.
	iv.		ELLEN BRADLEY.

20. BERNARD B.⁴ HANRATTY (THOMAS DANIEL³, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹) was born June 21, 1874.

Children of BERNARD B. HANRATTY are:

	i.		GEROGE⁵ HANRATTY.
	ii.		ANN HANRATTY.
	iii.		CAROLINE HANRATTY.
	iv.		THOMAS HANRATTY.
	v.		NELLIE HANRATTY.
	vi.		IRENE HANRATTY.
	vii.		EUGENE HANRATTY.
	viii.		KATHRYN HANRATTY.
	ix.		MARY HANRATTY.
	x.		ADDIE HANRATTY.
	xi.		WILLIAM HANRATTY.

21. JOSEPH⁴ HANRATTY (THOMAS DANIEL³, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹)

Child of JOSEPH HANRATTY is:

LAWRENCE⁵ HANRATTY.

22. THOMAS DANIEL⁴ HANRATTY, JR. (THOMAS DANIEL³, UNKNOWN 1A², UNKNOWN 1¹) was born July 09, 1860 in Conneautville, Crawford County, PA, and died January 23, 1938. He married MARY ELLEN MCGRAW February 25, 1881 in St. Peters Church, Diocese of Erie, Conneautville, PA, daughter of DENNIS MCGRAW and BRIDGET DOWNEY. She was born March 25, 1863, and died January 23, 1926.

Notes for THOMAS DANIEL HANRATTY, JR.:
This account was retyped by Kathleen Marie Hanratty 1/12/2000 from original typing by Beth Iverson from a copy given to her from Dorothy Rathfon in 1979. The original transcript was written by Dorothy Henretty Rathfon taken from hand notes by her father Thomas Daniel Henretty, Jr.

Thomas Daniel Hanratty was born in Conneautville, Crawford County, Penna. on July 9th, 1860 to Dr. Thomas and Bridget McAneny Hanratty, who were married at Log City, Oneida Co., NY in 1842.

The parents had come to Conneautiville in 1844 where they built a home. Thomas Hanratty, Sr. was a cooper by trade and was known as Dr. Hanratty. He built a cooper shop where he made butter firkins and pork barrels. His wife Bridget died about 1874 at the age of fifty. He married Johanne Shea in 1878, who survived him at his death. He worked at the cooper trade until five months before his death which occurred April 27th, 1891, at the age of seventy-seven. Other children of the first union were Mary, Ellen, Edward, Bernard, Elizabeth, Joseph and William. Mary, Ellen and Edward died young of typhoid fever. Elizabeth died in 1874. At this time (1931) Bernard is still living at Parkers' Landing, PA. and Joseph is living with his son Lawrence at the old home in Conneautville. William is buried at Bradford while Thomas Sr., Bridget, Ellen, Edward, and Elizabeth are buried at Summit Cemetery, Crawford Co., PA. Johanne was living at St. Mary's Catholic Home in Erie, PA. at the time of her death Jan. 3rd, 1926. She was buried at Erie.

In the early days there were no school laws whereby parents were compelled to send their children to school. I (Tom Daniel) went to school part of the time when I was eleven and twelve years old. We lived on a small farm and we boys had to exchange work with the farmers to get our heavier work done as we owned but one horse. The farmers had us three boys work for them for one week in exchange for one day with their team. They took advantage of us at hoeing time, furnishing us with worn out hoes and expecting us to keep up with the men. who worked fast with new hoes, and only by unceasing labor were we able to do so. The hours were from 6 AM to 7 PM.

From 1870 to '72 (age 11-12) I took care of Dr. O'Neil's horse and watched his office when he was out. I also slept in the office so as to be on hand to hitch up the horse when the doctor was called out so that he might not dirty his hands. Wash basins were not so handy those days as now. From 1874 to '75 I worked in a livery stable taking care of eight horses. I slept in the office at the barn and had to be ready to hitch up day or night. In 1875 Bernard or Barney as we called him, who was living at Parker's Landing wrote for me to come to him for work. He had charge of some oil wells at that time. I was paid a dollar a day and my board while Barney was paid three dollars a day. I went down the first of June 1875. He pumped twelve wells on the Black farm and one well on his own which was kept pumping all the time. I was not getting enough to eat so I chipped in with another pumper who was shantying. I would get up from the table and go to the shanty to finish my meal.

I wrote about this to my father and when Barney received an answer from him, his wife watched me go to the shanty and followed me there. She said plenty to the man for allowing me to eat there. After that I could do nothing to suit my brother.

On the well which Barney owned there was a light on the walking beam and almost enough gas to keep up steam. About three times a night I would have to use coal. Barney could see the light from his house and would come down and start it and give me a scolding. The last time he came down he was very mad. It was about 6 AM and I told him that the well had not stopped at four; that I had been up at three. He called me a liar and I grabbed him and started for the door. But he hung back as he was afraid we would be seen. In the struggle I pushed him onto my cot. Just then his wife came in and parted us. She too was afraid of the neighbors seeing us. I went to the shanty for my breakfast and was heartened when the pumper told me I had done perfectly right to stand up for myself. Just as we finished eating Barney's wife came in and begged me to talk it all over with Barney. She said he wanted me to pump that day as he had to go away. I insisted that Barney ask me himself, which he did. The next day I left for home with about fifty collars for three months work, a fourteen dollar suit of clothes and a ten dollar pair of boots which Barney had given me as they were too small for himself.

I arrived home the last of August and that day three men had work for me. The first one to find me was Hud Lawrence who had a mail route between Meadville and Conneautville. He wanted me to drive the hack for him. Altho I was only fifteen I looked eighteen, so I went to work for him in Sept 1875, and worked up until Dec 1877. It was a long drive when the roads were bad. It was sixteen miles going one day and eighteen coming back. I would go one way done day and the other the next. I had lots of friends on the route and in fruit season there would be baskets of fruit and flowers at the gates for me. In the summer of '76 or '77 there was a rain storm in the night. The next day the boss said he did not believe I could get through as some of the bridges were washed out but I would have to try it on horseback. I took old "Bill Right" the best swimmer and started. The bridge was gone at the first creek I came to and there were men, women and children standing around. I was told by the farmers that it was not safe to cross but I knew the driveway below the bridge and Bill and I started. Halfway across, Bill lost his footing. We were headed upstream so downstream we sailed and landed in a pile of flood wood and trees. Bill was not excited. He looked around and so did I. I found that we were in a field about two or three hundred feet from the bed of the creek and we were soon on our way again. We crossed three streams where the bridges were out besides several small sluice bridges. Some were four to six feet across. I would ride Bill up to take a look, then go back, give him a start and we would fly over. He cleared all of the four foot ones but at one of the wider ones the ground gave way under him and we landed apart on the further bank. While Bill cropped grass a girl ran down from a farm house to see if I was hurt. She told me her father had gone down to the woods for poles to put up a warning sign and she was posted there to prevent anyone from trying to cross. I was the only one who carried mail by wagon road for three days. The railroad tracks were washed out and there were no trains for two days.

In 1878 I went to work for W.W. Powers driving carriage horses which were for sale. I broke six pair for him which he sold. Powers would drive though the country and pick up the horses. Then he would match them up as closely as possible in color and pep. A man would come and pick out a team. I would hitch up and we start out for a drive. When out about a mile or so I would hand the reins to the man who was buying and they would drive as well for him as for me, as I used to drive them three or four different ways every day to accustom them to different hands. In June of 1878 the foreman at the farm left and I was placed in charge of the work on about three hundred acres of land besides taking care of three work teams. I fed the horses myself every morning and night, in the morning at 5AM I drove one of the teams myself and each night I would be told when the teams would work as they had a large wholesale store and sold to all the small stores in the country.

On Feb. 25th, 1881, I was married to Ellen McGraw, daughter of Dennis and Bridget Downey McGraw, who was then eighteen years old. She was born on Mar. 26th, 1863. We were married by the Rev. J. J. Ruddy, St. Peters Church, Diocese of Erie, Conneautiville, PA Miss Margaret Ruddy was a witness.

In June 1881 George Brown, a retired race-horse man, came to me and told me that he had told Mr. Powers he wanted me to work for him and that he would pay better wages. Mr. Powers was willing to let me go if I would stay until the hay was sin. That was done in Aug. I was to receive on dollar and a half a day and two rooms and board for myself and my wife. My wife as to take care of the two rooms. I had two horses, two cows, three hunting dogs and chickens to take care of. Every morning I would drive a farm horse and bring a woman to do the milking and then take her back again. In Sep. there was sickness and I could not get a woman to do the milking so I did it myself. Mrs. Brown had told me to give the milk to the hogs but after watching me milk she had it taken to the house where she looked it over. After that I was milk-maid too.

Mr. and Mrs. Brown were to go to FL for the winter. They left the 4th of Sep but came back in Oct. My wife did not like the place so she wrote to her sister, Mrs. Keefe, in Bradford, PA and asked if she thought I could get work there. On Oct 4th she got a letter back saying for us to come. I told Mr. Brown I wanted to leave for Bradford on Oct 11th. Mr Brown got mad and said he would not pay me what he owed me. I went ahead with my arrangements and on the night of Oct. 10th had a team and platform wagon sent out from the livery stable to take us to the train. When he saw it, Mr. Brown went to the barn where we were loading. I asked for my pay but he said nothing doing. He told me that I was the best man he had ever had working for him in thirty years and he wanted us to stay. He said that his wife liked mine very much as she was very pleasant and nice to get along with. This was proved when we were about a mile down the road as my wife told me that Mrs. Brown and given her my pay. Needless to say, the money came in handy.

We arrived in Bradford at 11PM. It snowed hard and in the morning our bed was covered with snow, where it had sifted in. As soon as I had my breakfast, I went to the B.B.$ K. shops. They told me the blacksmith's helper had left and I asked the Master Mechanic for the job. He asked if I'd ever helped a blacksmith and when I told him no, he asked if I could chop wood. I told him I could chop enough to keep warm anyway. He then took me to the blacksmith, who was my brother-in-law, Will Keefe, and told him to try me out. Will took a piece of steel 2" square and put it in the fire. When it was hot enough he put it on the anvil and told me to hit it. I pounded away for half and hour and was then told I had done a good job. In a month I was doing all the light blacksmithing and Will was my helper.

I worked for the Buffalo, Bradford & Kinzue, a narrow gage railroad on top the hills for tow years as all-round man on the road and in the shop. On Oct. 15, 1883, as my pay was two months behind, I resigned. The B.R.&P. (Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh) was at this time laying tracks through Bradford. I went to Master Mechanic Cooper and asked for work. He told me that they were not yet ready for shop men but if only I were larger he could use me as a fireman. I told him I could fire an engine. Cooper laughed and said a B.B.&K. engine could be put in one of their fires. I asked to try anyway so I was given a letter to an engineer to make a trip Oct. 15th. He said there would be a train leaving at 7PM and one at 10PM. I took the seven and fired from Bradford to Kinzue Bridge. The engineer ok'ed my letter and told me to get off at the bridge and go back and tell Cooper that he said I was a better man than his regular fireman. When I showed Cooper the letter he wanted to know how much I had paid the engineer of OK it.

After firing nine months Mr. Cooper asked me to work in the shops until things got going. He said my rights as fireman would be held while I worked in the shop. I asked to go back on the road several times but was put off. The master mechanic said he wanted me to stay there until the stationary engine was OK. I was in the engine room twelve years and was also boiler and stationary room engineer. I took care of the tool room and fired the boiler and did the water pump work at the shops and on the road, when they would put a man in my place in the shop.

In 1898 I asked to go to the Round House as a machinist. I worked there until 1898 when I was taken into the machine shops. Was there until 1903. She shops were then moved to East Salamanca and I was left in charge to load all the machinery and tools. I also had two engines on the drop pit which were to go to Salamanca. When everything was cleaned up I was appointed foreman in 1903. I was general foreman from 1918 until Nove 26, 1925 when I was taken sick of heart trouble and retired on a pension after forty-two years of service. On Jan 23, 1926, my wife died following an operation for gallstones at the Bradford Hospital at the hands of Dr. Benninghoff.

From until the present time, I have done all kinds of carpentering work for people in our neighborhood.

While we were living on High Street, my wife was hurrying to Mass one Sunday morning down Elm Street. There was a flight of steps with had rails leading to the tracks. Just as she was at the top she slipped and fell and he hoop-skirt caught at the uprights of the hand-rails and she hung there head down until I rescued her.

For the past eight years I have been attending the annual Family Reunion held on one of the farms near Meadville. Usually some of my family accompanies me.

In the spring of this year (1931) I went to Conneautiville and stayed over a month fixing up the old home, putting in a foundation, flooring and new windows.

Tom then gave an account of the children and grandchildren born to Ellen and him. This has been recorded into the Family Tree Program. His account included all birth dates, death dates, godparents, and witness names at the various weddings.

Children of THOMAS HANRATTY and MARY MCGRAW are:

41.	i.	WILLIAM EDWARD⁵ HENRETTY, b. January 21, 1900.
42.	ii.	ARTHUR J. HENRETTY, b. June 24, 1889; d. November 29, 1961.
43.	iii.	DOROTHY CLARE HENRETTY, b. January 21, 1903; d. March 05, 1986, Miami, FL.
	iv.	EDWARD LEON HENRETTY, b. November 24, 1893, Bradford, PA; d. February 22, 1978, Orlando, FL; m. IRENE LORETTA HUNTINGTON, June 30, 1918.

Notes for EDWARD LEON HENRETTY:
Godparents were Alice MaGee and Edward McGraw. Wedding attendants were Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hanratty

MARY HELENA CHARLOTTE HENRETTY, b. March 17, 1896; d. March 21, 1961; m. JOHN E. WARD, December 26, 1929.

Notes for MARY HELENA CHARLOTTE HENRETTY:
God Parents were Mary McGraw Shrin and James McGraw. Wedding attendants were Mr. and Mrs. Harold Newman.

	vi.	ANNA HENRETTY, b. December 24, 1881; d. September 03, 1882.
44.	vii.	THOMAS CLAUDE HENRETTY, b. August 06, 1883; d. March 13, 1944.
	viii.	JAMES PAUL HENRETTY, b. November 10, 1887; d. March 19, 1888.
45.	ix.	GERTRUDE THERESA HENRETTY, b. October 18, 1883; d. September 19, 1941.

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