My Uncle John Finnegan (1884-1950), one of my father’s older brothers, left Carrickmacross, Monaghan, Ireland, to work in the Montana Butte Copper Mines.  He married Elizabeth McNally (1881-1964) in Anaconda, Montana, in 1916, over a hundred years ago.  They had four children, my four Denver first cousins.  He later moved to Denver, Colorado, where his family lived for many years on Sherman Avenue, as he worked for a railroad company.  They had four children.  I think that I only met my Uncle John once when I was about 3 years old living in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.  He and his family came to visit my father by train during the Second World War.  I think that my Uncle John looked a lot like my father.  He died at the age of 66 in Denver, in 1950, but we did not go to the funeral.  Their oldest son was John Finnegan (1917-1990) who never married.  He was named after his father, although I do not think that he was called a junior.  He served in the USA Army in China and Burma during World War II.  I have a few photos of when he was there in China in his full uniform.  In fact, there were two photos of the great wall of China that were taken from the air in 1945, on a flight from Shanghai to Beijing.  He must have been a pilot or navigator.  Afterwards, he served in the Army Corp of Engineers in Casper, Wyoming, until he retired.  He went to the Colorado School of Mines, and was an engineer.  I met him a few times at funerals, since he came to the funeral of my mother and my father.  He died in Denver at the age of 73 in 1990, although we did not go to his funeral.  Their second son, my Denver first cousin, Jerome Finnegan (1918-1972) was captured by the Germans in World War II, after the D Day invasion.  After the war, he became a Benedictine priest, Father Simeon Finnegan, OSB, at the monastery of St. Benedict’s Abbey, in Atchison, Kansas.  He was ordained a priest in 1954 in Kansas City, but our family did not go to the ordination.  However, Father Simeon died relatively young at age 54 in 1972.  I went to his funeral, since he had presided at my father’s funeral earlier that year.  Frances Finnegan (1921-2014) was the only girl in this family.  She was a retired English Professor from the University of Colorado, Boulder, who also never married.  She and John had season tickets to the Denver Colorado Rockies baseball team when the team first joined the National League.  She had done some work on the Finnegan family genealogy after she retired, and was a great note writer.  Her Irish cousins always spoke highly of her and her letter writing.  After John’s death, she moved into an assisted living facility in Denver.  We visited her a couple of times in the last twenty years before she died in 2014 at age of 93.  She left her estate of over a million dollars to her 18 first cousins on both sides of her family.  I believe that she got most of this wealth from her brother when he died in 1990.  She had a unique will that was in fact hard to execute.  That is one of the reasons that I know so much about my first cousins on my father’s side, because there was a lot of investigation to find those nine first cousins and their descendants.  Five of the nine were still living.  Obviously, I was one of them, the only one living in the USA.  She had visited Ireland a few times and wanted to leave some money to her Irish relatives.  I ran into some people who knew her as their English teacher, Miss Finnegan.  Frances was a wonderful kind proper lady.  It is interesting to note that my Denver Finnegan cousins all had a college education.  Their youngest son Paul Finnegan (1923-1928) died tragically in 1928, at the age of 5 in a drowning accident.  Obviously, I never met him, since he died 11 years before I was born.  I always assumed that I only had three Denver first cousins, until Frances told me about her deceased younger brother.  Do you have cousins who do not live beside you?