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Patrick Fitzsimmons was born about 1797, probably in Pennsylvania, and died in 1827 in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He married Elizabeth Failor about 1819.

Their son Patrick William Fitzsimmons was born in 1827 in Pennsylvania and is the one that I am descended from. He married Phebe Zell, in 1856 in Iowa and they headed slowly westward. She was his second wife. Two of their children made it to Walla Walla County, Washington in the early 1870's, others of the family joined them later. Their daughter, Ocy D. Fitzsimmons was born in 1872 in Jefferson County, Kansas.

Ocy married Martin F. Kelly in Walla Walla, Washington in 1891. I descend from their child, Martina Lorene Kelly.

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