THE FAMILY OF
DOMINICK JOSEPH EGAN AND MARIAH HURST EGAN

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DOMINICK JOSEPH EGAN Click on the photo to see it in full size

MARIAH HURST EGAN Click on the photo to see it in full size

A great deal of information has been handed down about this couple and their family by way of both tradition and documentation.  The most fascinating source was the 1898 publication: HISTORY OF CATHOLICITY IN INDIANA.
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Click on the photo to see it full size The photo above shows the bell in the belltower of St. Mary's Church (Officially the Church of the Immaculate Conception) in Rushville.  With a little effort, the reader will see that the bell is inscribed with the Latin words: "AVE, GRATIA PLENA."  ("Hail, full of grace") and the names Jas. Scanlon and D.J. Egan, both of whom had long served the parish with donations of both time and money.  D.J. Egan's contribution is documented in the "History of Catholicity in Indiana" (1898) where it is asserted that the parish had thus honored D.J. Egan.  In spite of a credible "tradition" about this bell, and the discovery of the historical document, Andy Weidekamp and I (both great grandsons of D.J.) were still skeptical enought to climb the bell tower in September of 2001 to obtain this photo.