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Sammon Family Line
Austin Sammon B: 1765
W: Bridget
James Sammon B: 21 Apr 1789
Galway, Ireland
D: 03 May 1860
Wilmington, OH W: Marcella O'Brien
Items
in italics
need verification.
Thomas
Sammon
B:
01 Jun 1818 Galway, Ireland
D:15
Jan 1887
Bayard, IA
M: 15
Nov 1847
W: Julia
Ann McKenna*
B: 12
Oct 1827
New Jersey
D: 29 Sep 1891
Edwin F.
Sammon
B: 1868
Laona
Thownship,
Ill
D: 16 Aug
1955
Bayard, IA
M: 1895
W: Emma
Duffy
B: 22 Apr
1872
Janesville, WI
D: 14 Sep 1955
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Howard
(Bud) Sammon
B: 31 Aug
1897
Bayard, IA
D: 26 Feb
1965
Palm
Desert, CA
M: 01 Sep
1924
Chicago,
Ill
W: Marion
Ruth Haggerty B: 05 Mar 1902
Chicago,
Ill
D: 18 Nov
1995 Lake Forest, Ill
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Patricia
Anne Sammon B: 31 Jul 1925 River Forest, Ill
D: 20 Mar
1982 Aptos, CA
M: 05 Sep
1949
River
Forest, Ill
H: Walter
Barber LaBerge B: 29 Mar 1924
Chicago,
Ill
D: 16 Jul
2004 Aptos, CA
*
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Philip Charles LaBerge
B: 2 Sept 1957
Palo Alto, California
W: Lois Elaine Foster
B: 23 June 1959
Midland, TX
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Name: Philip Charles LaBerge
Father: Walter Barber LaBerge
Mother: Patricia Anne
Sammon LaBerge
![](FamilyHistory/Images/Thomas%20Sammon.jpg)
Thomas Sammon
Thomas Sammon was the son of James Sammon and Marcella (O'Brien)
Sammon. He emigrated to the United States in 1836, settling in
Philadelphia,
where he learned the tailor trade. He
remained there five years. He then
moved to Cincinnati and
then to St. Louis, working at his trade in both
those cities
about one year. He then went to Galena, Ill where he lived
12
years and married Julia McKenna in 1847. He then moved to the Laona Township, Illinois
where his brother owned 162 acres of farmland. He farmed
there until 1875. He then moved to Bayard, Iowa
where he purchase 160
acres that he farmed.
Here is a brief history of the family that
he wrote:
Sammon_Family_History.htm
Family Timeline With Historical Events for Context
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1649 - 1683: The conquest of Ireland by the forces of the
English
Parliament was led by Oliver Cromwell. The name Ó Bradáin was
anglicized to Salmon. Sammon is a variant of Salmon.
1765: Austin Sammon is born (per the Shaw family tree on
Ancestry.com)
1789: James Sammon is born in Gallway, Ireland. (per
the Shaw family
tree on Ancestry.com)
It is believed that James Sammon had three sons.
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Timothy (1807-1878) |
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Thomas (1818-1887) |
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John (1825-1870) |
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Austin (1830-1908) |
1807: On April 10th, Timothy Sammon is born. Timothy is
believed to
be Thomas Sammon's older brother.
1818: On June 1st, Thomas Sammon was born in Galway,
Ireland per his gravestone in Willow Cemetery.
Catherine
Dunn, the wife of Timothy Sammon (Thomas' older brother), was
born in Westmeath, Ireland which is not far
from Garbally where Thomas is
believed to have been born. Here is
a
map showing the county of
Westmeath and Ballinasloe (Garbally).
Map of Westmeath
1820: On March 6th, the Missouri Compromise was signed and
admitted
Maine
as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It maintained the
balance of power between the North and South and prohibited slavery
above the 36°30' parallel,excluding Missouri.
1827: On October 12th, Julia McKenna is born in New Jersey.
1835: On June 25th, Timothy Sammon's son William is born in PA.
William
served in the
Civil War and died in Durand (Laona Township), Ill.,
which helps confirm
that Thomas and Timothy must have been brothers.
William Sammon Info
1836: Thomas Sammon immigrates to the United
States
and becomes a tailor in Philadelphia. It is not clear if his port
of entry was
Philadelphia or New York.
Important: This places both
Timothy and Thomas in Pennsylvania at
the same time around 1835/36.
Here are some possible passenger ship list
matches:
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | Thomas Salmon: arrival: 16 May 1836, line
102, age 20, male, Liverpool - New York, ship name:
Katherine. He is listed as a
currier. Curriers work and finish leather after it is
tanned. That skill could have led him to becoming a
tailor.
Listing ,
Document
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![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | Thomas Salmon: arrival 03 May 1837, age
20, male, Liverpool - New York, ship: William Brown,
His is listed as a laborer.
Listing,
Document |
Note:
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Passenger lists started being kept in the
U.S. in 1820. |
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Port of departure passenger lists were not kept in
Ireland prior to 1890. |
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In the early 1800's, Liverpool acted as a stage point
for immigrants going to America. |
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From 1848 to 1850, over 6 million people emigrated from
Ireland of which 2.5 million departed from Cobh, County
Cork, Ireland, making it the second most port of
debarkation. |
1841: Thomas moves to Cincinnatti where
he owned his own tailor establishment. It is believed that
Thomas' father James died on 03 May 1860 in Wilmington, OH
located 50 miles north east of Cincinnati. References to
Thomas living in Cincinnati may have been Wilmington.
1842: Thomas moves to St. Louis and
continues working as a tailor.
1843 : Thomas moves to Galena,
Ill. where the Sammon Family Album states that he became a farmer
and stayed there 12 years. Galena directories. however, listed
him as a tailor in 1847/48 and 1854.
1845 - 1852: The Great Famine in
Ireland was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration. It is also
referred to as the Irish Potato Famine, because about two-fifths
of the population was solely reliant on this cheap crop.
During the famine, approximately one million people died and a
million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's
population do fall by between 20% and 25%.
1846: On January 9th, Timothy Sammon
acquires 40 acres of land in Winnebago County, Illinois.
1846: On November 26th, Timothy
acquires 40 more acres of land.
1847: on 15 Nov 1847, Thomas Sammon
marries Julia McKenna* in Galena, Jo Daviess County, Illinois. Julia was a native of New Jersey. They would have seven
children--John, William, Thomas J., Timothy, Edwin, Margaret and
Julia*.
Illinois Mariage Index
* Note: Thomas Sammon's wife
Julia's maiden name was spelled a number of different ways.
It was written McKenna in the Sammon Family Album which we
believe to be most accurate.
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | 1847: McKenna - Illinois Marriage Index
1860-1920 |
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | 1847: Mckinna - Illinois County Marriage
Records 1800-1940 |
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | 1891: McKenna - Julia's grave information
at Willow Cemetery |
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | 1897: Kenney - son Timothy's wedding
register |
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | 1923: Kenney - son Timothy's grave info
at Willow Cemetery |
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | 1925: McKenna - daughter Julia Sammon
Gouger's grave info at St. Joseph Cemetery. |
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | 1925: Kinney - daughter Julia Sammon
Gouger's death certificate. |
![bullet](_themes/kbiz7_tem/bullet1.gif) | 1926: Kinney - daughter Margaret Theressa
Sammon Croak's death certificate. It incorrectly lists
Julia as from Virginia, not New Jersey. |
1847 - 1848: The
Galena Directory and Miner's Annual Register,
for 1847-8 Published by E. S. Seymour, Galena, 1847
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Sammon, Thomas, tailor, res T D Kelly's
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1848: On March 1st, Timothy acquires 40
more acres of land.
1849: On January 1st, Timothy acquires
52 more acres of land.
1849: On November 6th, Laona Township is established in
Winnebago County, Illinois.
1850: The Laona Township, Winnebago, Ill. census
lists Timothy(40), Catherine(40), William(12), Margaret(10),
Mary(7), John(6), Catherine(2), Elizabeth(3 mos.). Thomas Sammon is not listed.
1850 Census - p1 ,
1850 Census - p2 Surname spelled Sammons.
1854: The Galena City
Directory: 1854 lists
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Cavanaugh, Jas, tailor, bds T
Sammon's.
Sammon, Thomas, tailor, h Fourth. |
1854: Racine, Janesville & Mississippi
Rail Road
Map
1854: Mary Duffy is born in
Janesville, WI. Her daughter would Emma marry Edwin Sammon,
Howard Sammon's father.
![](FamilyHistory/Sammon%20Family%20History/1854%20-%20Mary%20Duffy.jpg)
Mary Duffy
1854: On May 30th, the
Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed with the goal of opening up new
lands to development and facilitating construction of a
transcontinental railroad. The Kansas–Nebraska Act is most
notable for effectively repealing the Missouri Compromise of
1820, stoking national tensions over slavery, and contributing
to a series of armed conflicts known as "Bleeding Kansas".
1855: Having moved to Galena from
St. Louis after 1842 and having stayed there 12 years, according
to the Sammon Family Album, Thomas would have left for Laona Township,
Winnebago, Ill. around 1855.
1860: The census in Laona
Township, Ill.
lists Thomas (45), Julia (33), John (11), William (9), Margaret
(4) and Thomas (1). Note that land records do not show
that Thomas owned land, so it is assumed that he farmed
Timothy's land.
1860 Census - p1 ,
1860 Census - p2
Timothy and family, however, can't be found in
the 1860 census.
Timothy's daughter Mary is listed as a domestic worker in the
home of Lines L. Jones in Beloit.
Record ,
Census
1860: Thomas Sammon's father
James dies in Wilmington, OH
1861: On April 12, 1861, the Civil War
started.
1862: The Homestead Act is passed
after southern senators leave Congress before the Civil War.
1863: Railroad map with stop in Durand
and note showing Laona Township.
Railroad map
1863: Civil War draft record listing
William Sammon from Avon, WI,
age 27, white, farmer, single, born in PA.
Draft record
1865: The Civil War ends on May
9, 1865. The family memoirs stated that he enlisted in Captain Crow's company,
but is yet to be verified.
1868: Edwin F. Sammon is born in
1868 in Rockford (Laona), Illinois.
1869: Opening on May 10th of the
Transcontinental Railroad.
1870: The Laona Township, Winnebago, Ill.
census lists Thomas(55), Julia(40), John(21), William(19),
Margaret(12), Thomas Jr.(10), Julia(8), Timothy(6), Edward (3).
Thomas Sammon in 1870 Census
1870: The Avon, Rock, Wisconsin
census lists Timothy(60), Catherine(58), William(32), John(25),
Frnk(15), Kate(24), Elizabeth, Julia(18). Avon is located
10 miles north of Durand, Laona Township, Ill. Timothy
moving may have contributed to Thomas leaving five years later.
Timothy Sammon in 1870 Census
1870: Iowa Railroad Land Company
offers 1.7 million acres of Iowa land for sale.
1871: Iowa Railroad Land Company
advertisement map and
detail showing location of Bayard, Iowa.
1872: On April 22nd, Emma Duffy
is born in Janesville, WI.
1873: The property of both
Timothy and Thomas Sammon are shown
in Avon, WI.
Avon Land Map
Avon Land Map - zoom
1875: On November 8th, Sara
Sammon in born in Laona Township.
(James>Timothy>William>Sara)
![](FamilyHistory/Sammon%20Family%20History/1875%20-%20Sara%20Sammon%20Photo.jpg)
Sara Sammon
Between 1875 - 1880: Thomas Sammon along
with his wife and
seven children move to Bayard, Iowa
sometime between the 1870 census where he
is in Laona Township, ILL and the 1880 census
when he is in
Highland
Township, ILL.
1876: Both Timothy and Thomas are
listed as living on Sec. 33 in Avon, WI.
Avon Directory
1878: Timothy Sammon dies on 25
Mar 1878 and is buried in
Calvary Cemetery in Beloit, Rock County, WI. His wife
Catherine is listed on the tombstone with him.
Grave Info
Gravestone
Timothy's probate documents show that he owned
120 acres of land in Avon, WI and 54 acres of land in Laona
Township, Ill which was listed
as being in poor condition.
1880: the census in Highland, Guthrie County,
Iowa lists Thomas(63),
Julia(50), Julia A.(18), Timothy(15), Edward(12) followed by William(28)
& Ann(20), and John(30) & Mary(24), Emma(3), and Thomas P. They
are
listed as Simons rather than Sammon.
Census of 1880
1885: the census lists Thomas(65), Julia A.(58),
Timothy(20), Edward(18).
Census of 1885
The Sammon family settled on section 2, in Highland township. |
![](FamilyHistory/Sammon%20Family%20History/Sammon%20Home%20in%20Bayard.jpg)
The Sammon family home in Bayard, Iowa.
The house no longer exists.
Here is where the house used to stand:
41.849182, -94.537012
Edwin Sammon's farmhouse was a comfortable one.
It was built with the help of the town carpenter and local
character Old John Palmer, age 90 years plus or minus a few.
That John didn't tolerate "putting on airs" or "party manners"
is hinted at by another of Howard Sammon's endless anectdotal
stories from his early memories of life in Bayard. It was at
lunch with the farmhands one day that John became impatient for
a dish to be passed his way. He simply called down to the end of
the table, "Ed, pick the flies out of the gravy and pass it
around to the boys." Needless to say, that command quickly
became an "in" joke in our family.
Ed and Emma's family of four children, Howard
(Bud), Marie, Edwin (Ted), and Madeline, grew tall and prospered
as did the corn planted in the rich, cleared fields. The Sammon
farm numbered 400 acres, planted mostly in corn in those days
before the knowledge of the wonderful soya bean changed the
crops of Iowa.
Ed Sammon can best be described as a gentle,
kind, and very verbal man. Not only did he communicate
abundantly in the verbal mode, but his written communication was
enormous. He did like to talk, but he wasn't too good at
listening and frequently was caught with his hearing aid turned
down in the midst of an ardent discussion - one sided, of
course. When Patricia Sammon was thirteen, she sat on the porch
with Grandpa Sammon at their Des Moines home (where they moved
later in life). After about a half hour or so, he'd always say,
"Well Patty, I think I'll just saunter down to the poultry
market (Ted Sammon owned the local poultry market) and have a
talk with the boys." These talks always lasted until dinner time
and Patricia often wondered whether there was that much to talk
about. Grandpa had opinions on politics (Democratic) and
religion (Catholic, of course) and just about anything else
including the weather, which was the farmers constant concern
(it was always bad). |
![](FamilyHistory/Sammon%20Family%20History/Thomas%20Sammon%20Grave%20Marker.JPG)
1887: On 15 Jan 1887, Thomas Sammon died. He was burried at
Willow
Cemetery in Greene County, Iowa just north of Bayard.
Last Will of Thomas Sammon Note that Thomas signed his
name with a
mark indicating that he was illiterate.
1890: On April 5th, Thomas J. Sammon (Thomas' son) died at
the age
of 31 years old and was buried in
Willow Cemetery.
(James>Thomas>Thomas J.)
Tombstone
1891: On September 28th, Julia McKenna died and was buried in
Willow
Cemetery next to Thomas.
1895: On Jan 30th, Edwin Sammon and Emma Duffy are married in
Bayard, Iowa.
![](FamilyHistory/Sammon%20Family%20History/Edwin%20Sammon%20and%20Emma%20Duffy%20Wedding.jpg)
1897: On August 31st, Howard (Bud) Sammon is born in
Bayard, Iowa.
![](FamilyHistory/Sammon%20Family%20History/HowardSammon-VictorianPose.jpg)
1905: Census in Rock, WI showing
William(70), Julia(52) & Frank(50).
Record ,
Census (James>Timothy>William, Julia & Frank) 1910: On 26 Dec, birth of John Patrick
Paul Sammons. Parents: Timothy Francis Sammons and Ella
McHugh (vs Mccuen per 1885 census).
(James>Thomas>Timothy>John P.)
Birth Record
1910: Census
- Illinois, Winnebago, Rockford Ward 4, District 0171.
Timothy's son John-Head(61), Mary-Wife(55), Anna(32),
Bertha(24), John(22), Lloyd(20), Frank(17), Jay(15).
(James>Timothy>John)
Record ,
Census
1911: On Jan 25th, William Sammon died
at 75 years old.
He was buried in Irish Grove Cemetery in Rock, WI. (James>Timothy>William)
Record
1920: Census with Thomas' son William
J.
living in Roger Mills, Streeter (Crawford), OK. Census -
1920 (James>Thomas>William J.)
Record ,
Census
Census with Thomas' son Timothy's family in
Bayard. Timothy F(58), Ella M(48), Winfred T(22), Clarance
V(17), Ralph L(15), Jewell K(14), Marjory(12), John P.(9), Mary
A(7), Sarah L(7).
(James>Thomas>Timothy) Name written as Sammons.
Census 1920 - p1 ,
Census 1920 - p2
1924: Howard Sammon meets Marion (Garrity)
Haggerty on Valentines Day. They were married on Septemer
1st.
Howard
Francis Sammon, born 1897, the first son of Ed and Emma must
have been born with a determination to succeed in this world as
his story is pure "Horatio Alger" almost from the beginning.
Bud, as he was called on the farm, must have been about ten
years old when he was sent out on the farm to round up Grandma's
geese (she raised them and plucked the down for feather beds).
It was cold and starting to rain as Bud was chasing the elusive
fowl, a train (the Rock Island Line) came whistling along the
track that bisected the family farmland. As Bud stopped to
watch, it slowed slightly and as the last car, a posh pullman,
moved past, the cold, wet ten year old boy could see robust
gentlemen and their elegant ladies dining under chandeliers and
served by black porters in white uniforms. That did it! Bud
vowed he would grow up and go to Chicago and become a banker -
and he did eventually, but that's getting ahead of the story.
![](FamilyHistory/Sammon%20Family%20History/HowardSammon-President.jpg)
Howard Sammon
As viewed from a later date in history, growing up in Bayard
must have had its hardships, but Howard's stories always dealt
with pleasant or whimsical anecdotes. To Patricia Sammon as a
child, these seemed endless. They detailed the bizarre goings on
at Halloween when outhouses were routinely upturned by
pranksters. There was for some time a racetrack near Bayard
where Howard and his versatile and inventive cousin Jack O'Brien
were reported to have ridden and wagered on occasion. There was
the Bayard town band featuring among others, Howard Sammon on
the clarinet. Culture was alive and well in Bayard during the
last part of the last century as the band played regularly in
the town square, most girls took piano lessons, live theater
occasionally came to town and of course, the highlight of every
season was the appearance of the Greatest Show on Earth - The
Barnum and Bailey Circus. After all of the excitement was over,
if you were a boy in your early teens, you could always relax
behind the barn with your dog. Howard had endless tales to tell
about the family pet known in the stories as "Ole Dog Judge".
This dog was so talented and intelligent that he must certainly
have been an ancestor of Hollywood's famous Lassie as he
performed all of those marvelous feats that Lassie movies are so
well known for portraying. Patricia Sammon remembers, as a
child, many a winter evening curled up in front of the huge
fireplace in the Lloyd Wright house as Howard Sammon recounted
in vivid detail these many grand adventure stories and
reminiscences of his youth in Bayard. |
![](FamilyHistory/Sammon%20Family%20History/MarionAndHowardSammon-1955.jpg)
Marion and Howard Sammon
1925: Patricia Anne Sammon was born on July 31st, 1925 in
River Forest, Illinois. She was the first child of Howard F. and Marion Haggerty Sammon.
1925: Census with Thomas' son Timothy's
family in Bayard.
Census 1925 Ella listed as head of household. Name written as
Sammons.
The census record lists Ella as Mccuen vs. McHugh.
Census record.
1929: Thomas' son William J. is buried at Willow
Cemetery (79 yo).
(James>Thomas>William)
Cemetery Record
1930: Census with Ralph L. Sammon-head(26),
Ella-mother(57),
Mary-sister(17), Lavonne-sister(12), John-brother(14).
(James>Thomas>Timothy>Ralph L.)
Census 1930
1940: John P. Sammon WWII draft card.
(James>Thomas>John>John P.)
Draft Card
1940: Census with Howard Sammon Family.
Record ,
Census
Patricia Sammon attended St. Mary's College. It was there that she met Walter
LaBerge who had returned from the Pacific in WWII and was working on his PhD
in
Physics at Notre Dame. The married in 1949, and had their first child,
Peter,
in 1950. It was that year that Walter accepted a position as physicist at the
Naval Weapons Testing Station in China Lake, California. They moved that
year.
1955: On September 14th, Emma Duffy, wife
of Edwin Sammon, died.
Pat concentrated on raising a family as Walt's career
advanced from being the project manger for the Sidewinder Missile project, his acceptance as
a manager of Philco-Ford's development labs in the San Francisco bay area, and then responsibility for managing the construction of NASA's Houston Mission Control Center.
1965: On February, 25th, Howard Sammon
passed away.
While the family lived in the San
Francisco Bay Area, Pat returned to school to get her teaching credentials in speech
pathology and was a professor at San Jose State University.
As the family continued to move around the country and
over to Europe following Walt's increasing responsibilities with the Department of
Defense, she accepted
positions as a speech
pathologist in the public school systems. She was relentlessly
dedicated to the children that she worked with and made a huge impact in their
lives. In early 1981 she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer
while she and
Walt were living in Alexandria, Virginia. They moved to Mountain
View, CA
and spent much of their time in Aptos, CA where they had an apartment by
the coast. On March 5th, 1982, they celebrated the 80th birthday
of her
mother, Marion Sammon, in Aptos, CA. She passed away two weeks
later on 20 Mar 1982.
Some Useful Info:
Garbally
Cemetery location
Tithe Applotment 1823 - 1837
Sammons & Salmons on the Tithe Applotment Map 1823-1837
Sammon Surname Map in Ireland: 1864 - 1913
Sammon Residential Phone Listing By County in 2010
Table showing distribution of Sammons in 2014
IrishGraveyards.ie Map of Graves after 1900
In Connacht Irish, Salmon is an anglicization, by
translation, of Ó Bradáin,
which retains the earlier form Bradden in Donegal and Leitrim. The
English
name Fisher is also occasionally so used. Sammon is the variant in use
in Co. Clare.
Salmon is also a name of English origin, and as such it is fairly
numerous in Co. Leix
and north Kilkenny, where it was established in the sixteenth century.
SIF 133
— A Guide to Irish Names (1964) by Edward MacLysaght
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