These St. Louis children are decendents of William Ryan b. 1810 and Ellen Shelly b. 1835, of Ireland, married there in 1849. Jerimiah b. 1849, Michael b. 1852, William b. 1854, Daniel b.1858, Mary b. 1857, Josephine 1864, Catherine b.?, and Edward b.? had Census, obits, etc.

My line: Michael I/J Ryan married Ella Gorman b.1851 had grandfather, William b.1879, Helen b.1881, Richard b.1883, Gorman b.1885, Charles b.1887, George b.1890 & Russel b.1892 in St. Louis & Webster Groves.

William A Ryan married Tully M Manget b. 1882, Ferguson, Mo, 1906. My mother, Dorothy J Ryan married O.E./Gene Hickman in Tulsa, Ok, 1940.

Most have photos, marriages, dates/names, address, and obits include great, great aunts & uncles, but few biographic-details remain. Inter-related family date from the American Revolution, like the Cloptons, or Hickmans, but only the Manget, Morin and DuBouchet knew European births, like Verdun, or Lyons, France whereas the Thoroghmans, Lewis, Stricklands or Atkinsons decendents are known from Newnan, Marietta, or Atlanta, Georgia, like Hickmans who migrated there from North and South Carolina before the Civil War.