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I don't know who this condon belongs to but, I thought was worth mentioning.
Kansas and Kansans: Volume 5 (abt 1870's?)
Father Davern comes of an old family of County Limerick, where the name has been known for 360 years.
Through all these centuries there is an unbroken record of the family's participation in farming, while various
members have filled places in the professions. His father, Edmond Davern, was born in County Limerick in 1842
and is now living there a retired farmer. The name Edmond Davern is by no means unknown to remote parishes
and districts of Ireland. He has been a real leader of the people and has acted upon his convictions in spite of
long terms of imprisonment and frequent eviction from his property. A determined opponent of the institution
of landlordism, he deserves credit for the part which secured the abolition of that hated instrument of
oppression. He is a strong supporter of the United Irish League, and is a true Irish patriot. Edmond Davern
married Elizabeth Condon, who was born in County Tipperary in 1844. They had a family of nine children,
Father Davern being the seventh in order of birth. He was the only one who took the priestly orders. The
oldest of the children, Mrs. Kathleen Joyce, lives at Perth, Australia, where her husband is in business. The
daughter Mary died unmarried at the age of twenty-four. Nora, also living at Perth, Australia, is the widow of
John Whitlock, who was a sea captain. Elizabeth married Patrick Callanan, a farmer in County Limerick. Agnes
is a Catholic sister and is now acting as a nurse in France. Joseph is on the old homestead in County Limerick.
Edmond, who was the next younger after Father Davern, is a captain of artillery and for the past two years has
been battling the Germans on the western front. The youngest child, Theresa, is still at home with her parents.
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