This headstone located in the Drum Community Cemetery on the property of my Uncle Eugene & Aunt Ursula Vahey, represents generations of family history. Patrick and Ellen Killeen are my great-great-grandparents. Their daughter, Bridget, is my great-grandmother. Her husband, Patrick Collins, is my great-grandfather. Their daughter, Ellie Collins, is my grandmother. Ellie’s name got officially changed to Helen upon entering the US in 1925. She married James Daly in 1933 in NY. Helen and James had 3 children. Ann Bridget (my mother), James Jr. and Barbara Ellen.
And to be technically correct, Eugene is my mother’s first cousin…. So that would make him a cousin to me, but I always call them my aunt and uncle.
My Irish Farmhouse 