Sacramento County
Biographies
THOMAS McANALLY
THOMAS McANALLY, deceased. The subject of this sketch was born in the County of Armagh, Ireland, about 1840. He emigrated to America at eighteen, and came to California before he was twenty-one. Arriving in this county in 1851 or 1862, he worked for eight or nine years at general farming, dairying and fruit-raising in Franklin Township. He was known by his employers and their neighbors as an upright, industrious and kindly man, straightforward in his relations with all classes and condition of men, an excellent type of the better class of Irish workmen. Having saved his earnings for several years of steady work, he bought, in 1870, the fruit ranch of seventy-one acres about one mile above Courtland, where his family still resides. Mr. McAnally was married in April, 1876, to Miss Catherine O’Flaherty, also a native of Ireland, born in County of Galway in 1852, daughter of Patrick and Mary (Folan) O’Flaherty. She came to this county in 1875. By the early death of her husband, in May, 1887, she was left a widow with two children: Mary Agnes, born August 22, 1878, and Edward Thomas, born February 6, 1880.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 760. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.