Rooney Family Tree

Mary died at age 72 of some sort of embolism.

Originally published Tuesday, May 11, 1937, St. Cloud Times

Mrs. Dennis Egan

Mrs. Dennis Egan died May 6 at her home in Brooten, aged 72 years. Her husband died eight years ago.

Mrs. Egan is survived by two brothers, William Rooney, Padua; Hugh Rooney, Sedan; and one adopted son, George Egan, Minneapolis; and two adopted daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Eindlund, Glenwood; and Mrs. William E. Rooney, St. Cloud.

Funeral services were held Saturday morning at St. Donatus church in Brooten and interment was made in the Padua cemetery. Out-of-town relatives attending the services were Mr. and Mrs. Clive Egan, Mr. and Mrs. James Egan, Mr. and Mrs. George Egan, Miss Mary Egan, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Martin, all of Minneapolis; Miss Mabel Rooney, St. Paul; Mr. and Mrs. William Rooney, Emmet Rooney, St. Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Rooney, and son, Brainerd; Mrs. Mary Killeen, St. Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Wendlund, and Mrs. Lizabeth Egan, Padua.

Originally published August 1998, Padua Cemetry, by Ginny Walz Borgerding

Dennis Egan was born in Canada June 20, 1849. He came to the United States in 1864 when he was 15 years old. Dennis married Mary Ann Rooney, daughter of John and Mary (McCool) Rooney. They farmed in the Padua area until around 1920 when they moved to Brooten and purchased a home there. The farm today is owned by Jerome and Harold Ebensteiner.

Dennis and Mary had a child, Lavinia Egan, who died June 27, 1889. She was six weeks old.

Dennis and Mary adopted four children. One boy, Henry, and two girls, Mary Richards and Eleanor ?, were taken off the orphan train out of New York. The other child was George Egan, a nephew, the son of Elizabeth and Thomas Egan.

Dennis and Mary's daughter, Lavinia, and son, Henry, and wife, Elizabeth, are buried in Padua. Dennis' sister Annie Rooney, along with Mary's parents, brothers and sisters, Catherine Martin, Michael J., James, Thomas T., William, and Elizabeth (Eliza) Egan, are also buried in Padua.