HISTORY OF CLAY COUNTY                              70

of Vermont and the mother was born in Ohio. John Heath and wife
were the parents of eight children, five of whom still live: Galvin,
deceased; Peter, deceased; Hannah, Mrs. McCullough, deceased; Jemima,
Susan; James; Ella; Delila, living, The father came to Indiana at an
early day and located in Owen county, where he taught school winters and
farmed in the summer. He held the office of county commissioner; was a
Democrat and belonged to the Presbyterian church. Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Cullough were the parents of three children, one of whom is now living—
Annie M., wife of Everett Elkin, residing in Oklahoma, and they have two
children—William L. and Hannah Maria.

    After the death of his first wife, Mr. McCullough married Maria
Dunahey, the date of their marriage being October 14, 1890. She was
born in Pennsvlvania, November 4, 1844, daughter of John and Agnes
(Davis) Dunahey, Her father was born in Pennsylvania and died in the
Union army, he being a member of an Ohio regiment and met death at
Portsmouth, Ohio. Mrs. McCullough’s mother was a native of Pennsvl-
vania, and died when her daughter, Mrs. McCullough, was but nine years
of age. Mr. and Mrs. John Dunahey were the parents of ten children:
Jane, Sarah, John, George, and Maria, Five others are deceased.

    THOMAS JOSEPH KEEGAN.—Dependent upon his own resources from
early manhood, whatever success in life Thomas Joseph Keegan has
enjoyed has come to him as the direct reward of his own labors. He
is now well known in Brazil and this part of Indiana as a contractor in
railroad, gravel road and street work and receives a liberal patronage.
A life of well directed activity has also gained for him the respect of his
fellow-men, making him one of the worthy and representative citizens
of the county. He was born in Owen county, Indiana, March 6, 1856,
his parents being John and Mary (McNamara) Keegan. As the name
indicates, the family is of Irish lineage, The father was born in county
Roscommon, Ireland, in 1825, and there resided through the period of
his boyhood and youth, after which he wedded Miss Mary McNamara.
whose birth occurred in county Roscommon August 18, 1830. They came
to America as passengers on a sailing vessel, leaving Ireland in November,
1850, and reached the harbor of New Orleans on the 12th of January,
1851. From the Crescent City they made their way northward to Indiana,
settling near New Albany, where Mr. Keegan engaged in teaching school
for several years. He next removed to a point between Gosport and
Quincy, Indiana, and was section foreman of a railroad. Later he took up
his abode in Monroe county, this state, where he had purchased a farm
to which he now gave his time and energies. During the period of the
Civil war he was agent at the depot in Louisville, Kentucky, for the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, although his family continued to live on
the Monroe county farm. At the close of hostilities between the north
and the south he returned to his farm in Indiana and from 1868 until
1875 was engaged in railroad construction. His labors were then termin-
ated by death, and his remains were interred in the cemetery at Monte-
zuma.  His life was a useful, active and honorable one and he left to his
family the priceless heritage of an untarnished name. He lived in har-
mony with his professions as a communicant of the Roman Catholic
church and gave his political allegiance to the Democracy. His wife, long
surviving him, passed away in Brazil, Indiana, March 16, 1906. They
were parents of three sons and five daughters, of whom six are now
living : Mary, the wife of James McGuire, a resident of Brazil; Thomas