Person:Mary Mahoney (24)

This stone , miraculously ,is still standing in it's original location in Holy Cross Cemetery in Lackawanna, New York. DENNIS MAHONEY died at the age of fifty-two on June 9th 1850 .Written on the same stone written and buried in the same plot is his daughter , MARY MAHONEY , who died at the age of nine on 8 July 1853 . Her epitaph on the bottom quotes " This little flower on Earth so fair has gone to Heaven to flourish there " .

Image:Tombstone of Dennis Mahoney and daughter, Mary Mahoney.Lackawanna,NY.jpg

1. ↑ Holy Cross Cemetery (Lackawanna, New York). Cemetery records. (Buffalo [New York]: Biels Microfilm Corp., 1965, 1976)
   Lot 108 , Section A.

   AGE AT DEATH : Nine years old ( tombstone )
   Something undecipherable above her name in three sentences MARY Ae. 9 yrs . Epitaph on bottom " This little flower on Earth so far Has gone to Heaven to flourish there "

   On same stone as her father , Dennis Mahoney .

2. ↑ Holy Cross Cemetery (Lackawanna, New York). Cemetery records. (Buffalo [New York]: Biels Microfilm Corp., 1965, 1976)
   Lot #108 A.

   PLACE OF BIRTH : Probably in Ireland as they immigrated in 1845 to either Canada or directly to Buffalo .

3. ↑ Holy Cross Cemetery (Lackawanna, New York). Cemetery records. (Buffalo [New York]: Biels Microfilm Corp., 1965, 1976)
   Page 108.
4. ↑ CEMETERY : Holy Cross , Lackawanna , NY .