Aunt Mary's Memoirs, Chapter 2: VI

Pop's oldest sister, Margaret, entered the Convent of the Good Shepherd. Fanny married Daniel Kelly, a twenty-year-older man who owned a saloon. The oldest brother, Jim, married early and kept a shoe store. Willie married and was a huckster. Henry went out west to seek his fortune and was lost track of.
My father was ten years old when his father died. Grandmother Byrne was a strong willed woman and reared her family well, along with her two nephews, the Dempseys who were orphaned in Ireland. It was in 1882 that she sold the farm on Stonehouse Lane, South Philadelphia to her oldest son, who now had a growing family. She started my father on a farm on Falls Road, Bala, Pa., with his sister Mary to keep house for him. Then she set up the youngest son, Joe, on a farm in Gladwyne and she lived with him until his marriage. Uncle Joe served milk to the people of Manayunk; my father's route was the Falls of Schuylkill.