Person:Mary Hannigan (2)

1976 res Birmingham, Oakland co, MI.

Aunt Belle was a classy career lady. She worked for the electric company for years. She was a good cook and did food demonstrations (with electric stoves) all around the Detroit, MI area for a long time...was single. She used to drive to the Upper Peninsula every summer on her vacations in her car...and visit with Francis CANNON and his family but stayed with her half-sister, "Aunt Lizzie" (Elizabeth HANNIGAN). She used to bring up light bulbs as gifts. Francis said she must have married late in life. He remembers her visits around 1931-32.

I vaguely remember visiting her in Berkley when I was a young girl growing up in Royal Oak. Sghe gave each one of us kids a red-orange glow in the dark Freddie Kilowatt figure/doll. I don't remember what she looked like. I have an antique chair that looks like oak wood. It has a very straight upright back that has some carving on it. The seat is also very flat and small...perhaps it was a hall chair...not meant for sitting...but more for ornamentation or temporary perching white waiting in a foyer/entry. It was in the possession of Mavis Pearl CUNNINGHAM, whose sister Carol was , briefly, the common law wife of Charles Daniel HANNIGAN. I was told by Mavis, when she gave it to me, that this chair belonged to Aunt Belle. Mavis started stripping the finish off it but never completed refinishing it. I wish Aunt Belle was still alive to tell me something, anything about the chair. I hope that someday it's history may contain a clue to the Irish whereabouts...or even where in NY or Massachusetts Hugh Foy HANNIGAN lived/originated...or lead to names for the brother & sister he is reputed to have come to America with.