Patrick Riley

RILEY, SWIFT

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/12/2004 at 19:43:59

Patrick Riley, Crawford twp., farmer, Sec. 11; P.O. Bevington; born in the west of Ireland in the year 1818, and lived there until about thirty-one years of age, when he emigrated to America, and remained about eight years, then went to Canada for about three years, and came from there to this county; he married Miss Ann Swift, a native of Ireland, in the year 1839; has a farm of 240 acres of land; has a family of three sons and two daughters: Mary A., Thomas, Patrick H., John and Margaret.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 598