The following story was written by Catherine (Dineen) Greaser about her father....

These dates are based on the estimates from her last baby being born Abt 1894, if she was 40 in 1894 giving birth, that would bring it around 1854. Also, Ellen’s Mother’s maiden name was Lynch.

A lot of Irish emigrated over because of the potato famine in Ireland. Dad mentioned County Clare. My father also mentioned his mother coming from across the border in Quebec. Had relative that was a mayor. (?)

They lived in Mineville, NY up near Lake Placid. It was a mining town. They had 9 children.  Ellen (O'Connor) Dineen died when the youngest one was about 4 or 5 years. My father (John P. Dineen) said he was 9 years at the time.  That would be about 1899.   She was brought to a hospital in Boston, MA. Dad said she had cancer in stomach (Fell on a broom, ha).  Anyway, she told her sister Catherine (Kate) she did not want the children to go back. Kate took about 3 of the children.   I know she had Joe and my father.  She was single and never married, very religious.  His mother Ellen O'Connor) had another sister Agnes (O’Connor) O’Malley. She was married to O’Malley who built homes in Waltham, MA area after World War I. They had at least 2 children, I remember seeing her when I was about 5 years old, and she was in a wheelchair. Aunt Kate was crippled with arthritis when I was a teenager and had to be carried from the bed to a chair. She then lived with my father’s sister, May Glode, in Allston, MA. One of Agnes O’Connor O’Malley’s children was Joe. He married and had one boy and one girl. The boy went to Holy Cross College. I heard he died later, he was about 10 years older than me. They had a beautiful house (do-re-me)  cause the old man built houses, so his son Joe probably inherited the business.

Anyway, Aunt Kate O’Connor worked in the same house as my mother. Aunt Kate was a laundress. She kept telling Mom (Elizabeth Gillis) she had two nephews home she wanted her to meet, Joe and John. Well, that is how she met my father. My mother   said he (my father)  used to leave her on the street corner and chased fire engines!