CONWAY FAMILY PHOTOS
Contributed to Jennings County INGenweb by Patrick Pearcey prp48@hotmail.com
Thomas Conway, born in Doohoma, Parish of Kilcommon, County Mayo, Ireland (seated) & his son James A. Conway (1887 - 1938). Thomas
was the son of James Conway & Margaret Keane who immigrated to the United States in 1861. Within a few weeks of their arrival they settled in North Vernon. Thomas lived here in Jennings
County until his parents deaths in 1883 when he moved to Franklin, Indiana.
Anna "Annie" Honora (Conway) Heston holding Margaret Owens.
Honoria Conway was baptized in June 1854 in Doohoma, Belmullet Parish, County Mayo, Ireland to James and Margaret (Keane) Conway. She married on September 12, 1871 in Jennings County, Indiana to Patrick Heston, born about 1848 in Indiana. She was baptized as Honoria Conway in Belmullet Parish, on June 11, 1854. Her sponsors were James Gerahty and Bridget Heston. She is listed as Honora Conway on the May 12, 1860 passenger manifest of the Brazil. She was not listed in the home of James and Margaret Conway three months later. During her life she was generally known as Annie or Anna Eleanora, diminutives of Honora.
Her first appearance in the official records comes in the 1870 census of Columbus city, in Bartholomew County, Indiana. It lists Anna Conway, age 20, born Ireland was working as a seamstress in the household of wealthy clothier Nathan Kanbrowitz of Prussia.
In 1871 Anna married Patrick Heston in Jennings County, Indiana. After the marriage they lived in Edinburgh, Bartholomew County, Indiana where her sister Margaret resided. They attended Holy Trinity Parish there. Between 1877-80 Anna and Margaret moved to Franklin, in Johnson County, Indiana. The Hestons lived on one of the town lots owned by her sister Margaret Carney. In the 1880 census of Franklin, Patrick Heston worked for the railroad. Anna his wife was 30 years old. The couple became faithful members of the St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church by 1881. Anna Hasting (sic) was a member of the Alter Society that year. The couple was frequently listed as Hasting or Hastings in parish records. Pat gave $5 for the building of a new room in 1885 and from 1885-96 was one of the main contributors to the parish, according to their records. On September 12, 1886 at St. Rose, "Patrick Heston and Anna Eleonora Conway" served as sponsors for the baptism of a nephew, Thomas Heston.
In August 1896 after a typhoid epidemic, they relocated to Indianapolis. In 1900, Patrick and Anna Heston resided at 407 N. Haugh St. in the Haughville area of Indianapolis. One door away was her brother Thomas. Anna told the census taker she was born in June of 1854. Anna's family attended St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Haughville. In 1920, Anna Heston was a widow, aged 65. She lived at 545 Goodlet Avenue with her children Jerry and Margaret Heston, who never married. Anna died on August 10, 1929 at her home. She and Patrick are buried in Section A-8, lot 806, in Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Indianapolis.