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Family Subtree Diagram : Sheahan-Gorham

PLEASE NOTE: If you do not see a GRAPHIC IMAGE of a family tree here but are seeing this text instead then it is most probably because the web server is not correctly configured to serve svg pages correctly. see http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/SVG:Server_Configuration for information on how to correctly configure a web server for svg files. ? Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Parent Parent Biological Child Biological Child Marriage m. 13 April 1873 (four children) (a child) (a child) (a child) (a child) (two children) (two children) Daniel Sheahan Mary McAuliffe 1848 1900 John S. Sheahan ? 52 52 1852 1904 Mary Mulcahy 52 52 Mary Ellen Sheahan William Baker 1913 2007 Margaret Peggy Baker 94 94 J. Regis Goulet Suzy Goulet 1835 1911 Mary Sheahan 76 76 John Charles Earnshaw Daniel Altkin James Altkin Daniel Sheahan Daniel  Earnshaw Atkin 7 Sep 1837 1909 John J. Gorham, Jr. 72 72 The following comments were provided by Suzy Goulet, Los Angeles, CA:

John J. Gorham served in the war between the States.   During the war he served as a Corporal in Massachusetts Company B.  He was captured, served a short time in Libby Prison and then  released in a prisoner exchange. 

Now for a little on the Gorham's.  Including John Jr., there were 9 brothers and sisters.
They lived in Billerica. Their house built in 1845 is still there. Owned by someone else but in great shape, listed on the Billerica Historical List. Not opened to the public. I was up there in October. Photo and more information on this next week.   So the two brothers John and George were both in MA 29th CO. B. They enlisted in 1861. And then re enlisted.  They were both at the siege of Petersburg.
In Aug 1864 at the second battle of Waldon RR, George is over come by the heat. It was said to have been 90/100 Degrees. They were told to take and hold the train, so as to cut off another supply line of General Lee.   George is sent to the hospital and then released and discharged because of disability in Jan 1865.  He never recovers, goes back to Billerica eventually is listed as insane and remains in the care of his family until he dies in 1875.  Things never change, it actually takes an act of congress to get him a pension.

John continues on. He's at Petersburg. On March 25, 1865, he's taken prisoner, his arm is slashed with a saber.  He's then released in a prisoner exchanged in April and then Lee surrenders a week or so later.  John eventually gets a partial disability pension.  

John Gorham and John Sheahan worked at the Jewell Belting Co. in Hartford CT for years.  John Shean was Ellen Sheahans' brother.


 1851 1916 Ellen Sheahan 65 65 John Gorham and Ellen Sheahan probably met  through her brother, John Sheahan.  Both John's worked at the Jewell Belting Co. in Hartford CT for years.  
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