 
                       |--------Phenton LAWLOR (Ireland - Ireland)
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           |---------John LAWLOR (1803, Ireland - 1883, Iowa)
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  |------Fenton William LAWLER (1845, Ireland - 1919, Iowa)
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  |        |---------Mary LALOR (1816, Ireland - 1860)
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Lillian Mary LAWLER (1890, Iowa - 1917)
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  |                   |--------John FARRELL (Ireland - )
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  |        |---------George FARRELL (1829, Ireland - 1882, Iowa)
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  |------Katherine ``Kate'' FARRELL (1856, Iowa - 1925, Iowa)
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           |---------Jane CULLEN (1826, Ireland - 1862, Iowa)
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Leo was a son of Edward and Mary (Reagan) Downey. His sister Ethel married Lillian's brother George Lawler.
At some point after his marriage to Lillian Lawler, maybe after she died, Leo homesteaded a farm in Oklahoma but later returned to Iowa.
Leo remarried to Agnes Margaret Maher of Arcadia in 1920. Agnes Maher was a sister of Tom Maher who married Veronica Lawler. Leo and Agnes had three children: Mary Marguerite who m. Joseph Dunn, and John and Thomas Downey.
Sources for this individual:  @S296@ @S544@