LEAHY, Daniel L. ¹

  General Notes:

Daniel L. Leahy ran a wholesale cigar business at S.E. Cor. 8th & Sansom Sts., Philadelphia, PA in 1930. In a newsletter dated Oct. 7, 1930 that he apparently published it describes where his infant daughter was recently removed to for burial and family members buried near her. (F-480) A copy of it's contents follows. BELL PHONE: WALNUT 4378 ESTABLISHED OVER FORTY YEARS DANIEL L. LEAHY WHOLESALE CIGARS S.E. COR. 8TH & SANSOM STS. HEADQUARTERS FOR IMPORTED MANILA CIGARS PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania Tuesday October 7, 1930 Moved remains of our baby Marie Isabel Leahy from New Cathedral Cemetery (second and Erie Ave) to Old Cathedral Cemetery (48 Lancaster Ave.). Placed her in the grave with her mother (Bella Leahy). Also in this grave is the body of Bella's mother. There in the one grave Grandma McGowan, Mrs. Daniel L. Leahy (Bella) and Bella's baby Marie Isabel Leahy (aged 2 years old-died April 14, 1896). This grave is now full except perhaps a baby's body could go in it. It is on the front row extreme left by the rail, when you stand facing the front of lot. Grave in New Cathedral, from which our baby was moved, is now empty. It is on the front row, extreme left when facing the lot. Other graves in lot on front row contain my mother, Henrietta Leahy, Father, Frank A. Leahy, Sr., and Mrs. J. Herbert Ashley (Jenne Leahy), my sister Signed,D. L. Leahy

Daniel married Isabel "Bella" McGOWAN, daughter of Martin Ignatius V McGOWAN and Isabella E. CONLEY, before 1894. (Isabel "Bella" McGOWAN was born in 1866 in , , PA, USA and died before Oct 7, 1930.)