"THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGLONES IN AMERICA" by Joe Wilson

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Joe Wilson - Apr 11, 2000   THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGLONES IN AMERICA

  James Maglone was born in County Monaghan, Ireland in the year of 1782.  This is known by the inscription on his headstone located in Shiloh # 2 Cemetery located between Olney   and Noble, Illinois.  There will be more about our great-great grandfather in days ahead.  Mae Wilson-granddaughter of Thomas Maglone left a very informative history of James Maglone and will be entered in days ahead.  This only the first of what will follow.  This is written by Jos Wilson-great-great grandson of James Maglone, great grandson of Thomas Maglone and grandson of Mary Ellen Maglone Wilson. Son of John Bernard Wilson and son of Mary Ellen Maglone -Wilson and Jefferson Tuttle Wilson.

Joe Wilson - Apr 12, 2000   THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGLONES IN AMERICA  
   

According to the Mae Wilson the following was written.  The James Maglones came West during the great Westward movement when the territory was opened and trade was being developed.  It was the age of canals and railroad construction.  Mary Landers Maglone told her grandchildren that they had lived in the canebreaks of Indiana and that she had washed their clothes in the Patoka River.   

James probably labored on the canals while in Indiana.  From Indiana they went to the prairie between Olney and Noble ,Illinois. He bought land and built a cabin for his family.  His boys were big enough to farm so he left his wife and family to care for the farm while he went to Kentucky to work.  He was a gardener and did landscape gardening for Henry Clay at Lexington, Kentucky.

When he had saved enough money to buy another forty acres he would return to Illinois and buy another piece of land.  He would then go back to Lexington and Frankfort for his gardening.

Great grandmother was a Catholic and is said to have walked seven miles to Olney on Saturday so she could attend Sunday morning services.  Her family did not go.

Felix Maglone lived at grandmothers (Isabel Maglone) and went to school sometimes, probably because the school was so near there.

There was an Elsie Maglone Tucker married to Abe Tucker and lived in Noble.  I'm not sure if she was mothers cousin or aunt.

Henry Dickey lived on a farm adjoining Grandma's.  His mother was a sister to Grandfather Maglone (Thomas Maglone).  He had a sister in Clay City,Illinois with whom he lived after he retired.  Henry was a bachelor.

Marion Maglone was a nephew who lived at Grandmother's sometimes.  He was about Gertrude's age.  Gertrude went to help Grandma during the summer for two or three years.  There was another Nancy Maglone, cousin, whom Uncle Rolla Richmond who he went to see when he went to California.  He said he introduced himself as saying "I married Nancy Maglone."  The fellow flared up, "I married Nancy Maglone myself."

Maglone seems to be a strange name around Noble so there are probably none left there
There are McGlones in Vincennes.  I have wondered if they were from the same clan.  I would like to trace them back to Ireland and see.
Sent by Mae Wilson
Patoka, Indiana   1977
More will follow.      
 
 
   Joe Wilson - Apr 12, 2000   The Maglones in America

    The land referred to by Mae Wilson is located on hiway 250 between Olney and Noble, Illinois and is across the hiway from Shiloh #2 cemetery where James Maglone is buried.  In the same cemetery is buried Thomas Maglone. It is felt that Mary Landers Maglone is also buried there but there is no proof of that.  Just West of the Maglone land is the land owned by Hugh Clark who was the father of Isabel Clark Maglone.  Isabel Maglone is buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Patoka, Indiana.  The children of Thomas Maglone and Isabel Clark Maglone are:
Bernard Maglone   Born on Feb. 18,1854  Died on Nov. 19,1928 buried in Oak Hill Cemetery,Patoka,Indiana
Hilliquist Maglone   Born on April 6,1856  Died on October 18,1856
Mary Ellen Maglone Wilson   Born September 6,1857  Died January 17,1943 Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Patoka, Indiana
John Maglone   Born November 1859  Died November 1859
Rebecca Isabel Maglone   Born March 26,1862 Died on March 8,1939
Hugh Langdon Maglone   Born April 17,1865   Died January 31, 1921 Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Patoka, Indiana
Elsa Catherine Maglone   Born April 5, 1869   Died September 25,1900
Nancy Frances Maglone   Born December 15,1870   Died on May 31, 1933   Buried in the Kelly Cemetery outside of Maupin, Oregon.