​Timeline

 

Great Grandparents - Paternal

 

1878 - March 12 Horace Woodruff Kelley Sr is born in Philadelphia to Catherine Ayres & Richard Kelley

1881 - May Matilda Jane White is born to James White & Matilda Clark in Philadelphia

1886 - April 14th Pietro DiBenedetto is born to Camillo DiBenedetto & Filomena Appoglisi in Vastogirardi, Isernia, Molise, Italy

1898 - Horace W Kelley Sr & Matilda J White marry in Philadelphia

1898 - June 20 Horace W Kelley Sr a 5' 5", blue eyed, brown haired, ruddy complexioned file cutter from Philadelphia enlists in the Army

between 1901 to 1907 - Pietro DiBenedetto immigrates from Italy

1904 - August 24th Horace Woodruff Kelley Jr 3rd child of Horace W Kelley Sr & Matilda Jane White is born in Philadelphia

1908 - Pietro DiBenedetto & Teresa Teti marry in Philadelphia

1914 - my grandmother Filomena DiBenedetto/aka/Mary Bennett is born to Pietro DiBenedetto/aka/Peter Bennett & Teresa Teti in Philadelphia

1915 - Horace W Kelley Sr enters a tuberculosis sanatorium in Windsor, Pennsylvania

1917 - August 15th Horace Woodruff Kelley Sr dies in Windsor, PA

1918 - December 9th Matilda Jane White Kelley marries Clyde Shuster in Philadelphia

bef 1955 - Peter Bennett/aka/Pietro DiBenedetto marries Dorothy Scaramella in Reading, PA

1955 - April 30th Peter Bennett/aka/Pietro DiBenedetto dies in Reading, PA 

 

 

Great Grandparents - Maternal

 

1867 - February 20th John J O'Donnell Sr is born to Daniel O'Donnell & Bridget McDevitt in Frankford, Philadelphia

1870 - September 6th John Bayless is born in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania to Edward & Mary

1877 - Mary Valerius is born in Shenandoah, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, the 3rd child of Mary Woll & Michael Valerius

1883 - January 23rd Margaret Mary Dearnley is born in Providence, RI to Samuel Dearnley & Mary Philomena Nugent

1906 - John Bayless & Mary Valerius marry in Pennsylvania

1906 - June 20th John J O'Donnell Sr & Margaret Mary Dearnley marry in Philadelphia

1909 - July 11th William John O'Donnell, my grandfather, is the 2nd child born to John J O'Donnell & Margaret Mary Dearnley in Philadelphia

1913 - April 6th Florence Irene Bayless, my grandmother, the 4th child of John Bayless & Mary Valerius is born in Philadelphia

1925 - April 25th John J O'Donnell Sr dies at home in Kensington 

1939 - August 3rd John Bayless dies in Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia 

1947 - August 4th Mary Valerius Bayless dies on Hazzard Street in Philadelphia

1973 - February 21st - Margaret Mary Dearnley O'Donnell dies on Waterloo Street in Philadelphia

 

 

 

 

 

 

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