Biography of Patrick Cunningham, Woodland, Barry County, Michgian Copyright © 1998 by Debra Eddy. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. _____________________________________________________________________ PATRICK CUNNINGHAM [Pg 172, "The History of Woodland, Michigan, 1837-1987," edited and compiled by Catherine Mary Arnott] "CUNNINGHAM. Patrick Cunningham, born in 1825, came to the United States from Ireland around the year 1841, with three brothers and two sisters. In Ireland, the family name was O'Cunningham. In 1854, on their way to Michigan, coming through Pennsylvania, Patrick married Laura, the daughter of George and Polly Meyers [sic]. The Cunninghams came to Woodland Township and made their home in a log cabin on the land where Steve Price lives today. One Cunningham brother went to Canada, and the other two to Chicago. Pat and Laura, besides Pat's two sisters, who never married, stayed in Michigan. Pat and Laura had six children--Betsey, who married Dennis Haskel (sic); Edward, who married Iantha King; George, who never married; Arilla (sic), who married Herb Smith, after his death marrying his brother, John; Addie, who married Elmer Lear; and Seymour, who married Blanche Lovewell. Edward and Iantha had two children, Ernest and Valenta. Ernest married Ruth Wortley, and they had one son, Dean. Dean married Viola, the daughter of William and Inez Lind of Woodland. Dean and Viola Cunningham have operated a flower shop for the past 32 years, on the farm which has been in the family for 87 years. Valenta Cunningham married Charles King. They have three children--Divillo; Vilda, who married Laverne O'Connor; and Wilma, who married Franklin Townsend. The Townsends now live on Martin Road, on a lot off Pat Cunningham's original farm." dz