Michael Hickey’s Death in Iowa.Folklore has it that Michael arrived in Iowa driving a mixed team of an oxen and a horse pulling a wagon, possibly through Iowa City. He died in 1867 and was buried at Great Oak on the banks of the Des Moines, along with two of his grandchildren. At ...
Paddy Murphy, a descendant of the Murphys onboard that ship, recalled from family accounts: “On theHannahthey had four of their children and the two eldest were lost. The children went into the water and John went in after them. The story in our family is that his hands were so badly...