FOUR The Heppner Gaiette-Tlmet, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, April 21, 194
Doherty line intermarries with
other Co. Pioneer families
By JUSTINE
WEATHERFORD
The oldest child of Francis
and Catherine (Grant) Doh
erty, Sarah, was born in Car
donagh, County Donegal in
1859. She married fellow
countryman Charles, Cun
ningham from County Galway
in Umatilla County in 1883. He
offered many young Irish
immigrants including his
brothers-in-law their first
employment in Oregon as he
established his vast sheep and
land empire headquartered on
Big Butter Creek.
The Cunninghams' daughter
Sarah was born on Febuary,
27, 1885, and her mother died
in childbirth and was buried at
Vinson. Little Sarah was car
ed for by her grandmother
Kate until her father remarri
ed. In time Sarah married
Matt Mooney and they lived in
Auburn, WA. with their four
daughters, one of whom is still
living in Idaho.
The two Doherty sons who
were teenagers when they left
County Donegal, Barney and
James G., worked for Cun
ningham until 1891 when they
and their mother moved to
Blackhorse Canyon to the land
they had purchased from the
Buchanans where they began
raising cattle and horses and
adding to their land holdings.
In the early 1900's the brothers
switched from livestock to
grain to become one of the
first Irish farming operations
in the area.
Bernard F. who did not
marry, deeded his share in the
partnership to his younger
brother and his wife in 1918,
bought a home in Heppner and
lived there alone until his
death in 1921.
James G. married Cather
ine (Doherty) Doherty, also
from Cardonagh, County Don
egal, on July 6, 1893. She had
arrived in Pendleton in 1888
and worked there for a year
before moving to Heppner
where she was employed for
four years. When their thir
teen children married the
Dohertys became tied to other
pioneer families.
James G. and Catherine's
first son, Francis, was born in
1905, and died January 12,
1981. This much-loved bach
elor's home in Heppner was a
gathering place for family and
friends. A second son, Eugene,
born in 1907, also a bachelor,
lived at Woodby Island, Wash
ington until after his retire
ment when be returned to
Heppner to stay with Francis
until his death in 1975. The
third son, Bernard, born in
1909, married Mary Jane
(Jerry) Casteel, and they had
nine children, and he had the
responsibility of carrying the
Blackhorse farm after his
father's death.
The four children younger
than Bernard were Gertrude,
born in 1911, who married
Ivan Applegate; they had four
children. Helel, born in 1913
married Martin Dyer; no
children were born to the
couple. Helen now live on
South Chase Street in Hep
pner. A youngest son, Paul,
was born in 1913. He married
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The thirteenth child, Eliza
beth (Betty) was born in 1918,
and married Edgar Thorsen,
they had two children. Betty is
living in Kelseyville, CA.
In addition to their own
large brood. Grandmother
Kate and Uncle Barney also
lived with James G. and
Caterine as did children of
Mike and Mary Kenny when
they attended the .Blackhorse
school. Because of a bumper
wheat crop in 1916, James G.
bought the first automobile in
Blackhorse Canyon. He and
Catherine struggled to keep
the farm intact during the
years of the depression.
James G. died in 1933 and his
widow ran the farm until she
deeded it over to their son
Bernard in 1938. In 1941 Cath
erine left the home where she
had come as a young bride and
moved to the house in town left
by Barney. She died in Hep
pner in 1952.
The fourth and youngest
child of Francis and Kate,
Mary was not long in Oregon
before she met Michael Kenny
who had come from Carri
gallen, County Leitrim with
his older cousin Mary Gaffney
in 1878 to the Little Butter
Creek ranch of Felix and Kate
Johnson. Kate was Mary Gaf
fney's sister and Mike's cous
in. Mary Doherty and Mike
Kenny were married in 1884 in
Pendleton and traveled two
days to their homestead in the
head of the most easterly
branch of Sand Hollow, also
known as Milk Canyon.
The Kenny's ranching op
eration expanded from meag
er beginnings by increased
livestock and real estate hold
ings. They became the parents
of eight-five sons and three
daughters.
Mike Kenny was one of a
very few sheepman who was
able to carry his operation
with his own finances during
this country's worst depress
ion. This accomplishment can
be attributed to the invest
ment in Liberty Bonds during
World War I. Thus the Kenny
ranching and livestock opera
tion survived unscathed. Now
the holdings put together by
Mike and Mary (Doherty)
Kenny remain intact and still
in family ownership.
Their oldest daughter,
Sarah (Sadie) was the first to
marr. She and James Farley,
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Where
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from County Longford, were
iiiuiied at St. Patrick's
Church in Heppner in 1907 and
became the parents of three
sons and three daughters.
In 1913, th first Kenny
child, John F. and Bridget
Mollahan from County Lei
trim were united in marriage
at St. Mary's Church in Pend
leton. They had seven child
ren. In 1916, Roseanne (Annie)
Kenny married John Healy at
St. Patrick's. John was from
County Longford and first
worked for Con and Jim Carty
then became a partner with
Pete Farley. About 1915 or
1916 he became partners with
James T. Kenny with the
leasing of Mike and Mary
Kenny's ranch and sheep. This
partnership continued until
the death of James in 1922 and
In 1924 John and Annie leased
the Ralph Thompson ranch on
Little Butter Creek and there
they spent the remainder of
their lives raising their family
of seven Healy s.
Cecilia Kenny and William
J. Bucknum married in 1929
and they had no children.
Cecilia Bucknam is living on
West Center Street in Hep
pner. A Kenny son Joseph B.
(Joe), who was born in 1898
and lived until 1962, farmed on
Little Butter Creek and died a
bachelor.
Helen (Doherty Dyer, a
daughter of James G. and
granddaughter of Catherine
(Grant) Doherty and her niece
Martha Doherty, a great-grand-daughter
of Catherine,
granddaughter of James G.
and the daughter of Bernard
and Jerry are the co-chairmen
of the large Doherty Family
committee that is arranging
the 1984 Pioneer Reunion.
Heppner
news bits
Deanne Kristin Maata of
Terry, Montana was crowned
Miss Southeastern Montana.
She won all four of the dif
ferent competition categories
on her way to the title, which
earned her scholarships and
the chance to compete for the
Miss Montana title June 23rd.
Fifteen other girls competed.
Deanne who was born in
Heppner is the daughter of
John and Ruth Maata former
ly of Heppner. John is pastor
of the Evangelical Church of
North American in Fallon,
Montana.
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Morrow County
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County woman attends state conference
Claudine Warren (left) with keynote speaker, Director
Staryl C. Austin, Jr. of the Oregon Department of Veterans'
Affairs.
City libraries
The Boardman City Library
has received a $8,300 federal
grant for audio-visual equip
ment. Grant funding is offered
under the Library Services and
Construction Act, a federal pro
gram initiated in the mid 50s to
help bring libraries to areas
which have none and to improve
libraries in need of funding for
special projects.
According to George Smith,
State Administrator of Library
Development, 87 Oregon libra
ries applied for LSCA funding.
Of the 29 asked to complete
grant application forms, 21 will
be funded with grants totaling
$625,000.
The accepted application was
a cooperative venture between
Boardman, Heppner and lone
libraries for video disk and
playback systems. The $8,300
will buy three video disk
players, throe 25 inch color
minitors, three stands for the
systems and approximately
$3,000 worth of video disks,
said Ann Sipe, Boardman city
librarian.
Each of the three libraries
will have their own play back
system, but will share the video
disks.
"As a joint venture we're
hoping to brinR the libraries
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closer together and the shared
disks allow more variety in
the kinds of disks we can
stock," Sipe said.
The video disks will be in
three different categories,
educational, cultural and enter
tainment. Sipe said the TV,
players and disks will be for
library viewing only. "Vie chose
laser disk format for the educa
tional possibilities," she said.
"They have many 'how to'
applications as well as games to
be played."
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Morrow County Veterans
Service Officer Claudine
Warren attended the semi
annual statewide County
Veterans Service Officer Con
ferenre held April 1820 in
Springfield,
The session, co-sponsored
by the Oregon Department of
Veterans' Affairs and the
County Service Officer As-'
sociation, provided officers
with updated information
necessary to assist Oregon
veterans, their widows or
widowers, and dependents in
applying for state and federal
veterans' benefits in ' such
areas as: housing, education,
counseling, claims, employ
ment, medical, and pension
assistance.
Sipe also mentioned that sur
vey forms will le available in
the library soon allowing li
brary users to help choose
which disks will be purchased.
At a State Library meeting
scheduled for Friday, April 6. in
Salem, which Sipe must attend,
a determination will be made as
to how soon the money will be
available. Since the Boardman
Library w as the orgmator of the
grant, Sipe will be overseeing
the program and designing the
forms, etc.
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