The Patch

                            Janesville





In 1943, my family moved from Shenandoah to Ellengowen. My grandparents

FOGARTY, had been ordered out of their house which was across from the mine

 office in order for the P&RC&I to strip mine where the main patch was

 located.



 We moved into the big house next to St. Aidan's Church. It was formerly the

 mine superintendent's house.  On the east side of the rectory and heading 

for  Maple Hill stood the homes occupied by the Hales, John Carroll, Newcomer and

 Griffith. The church and rectory are gone but the homes are still standing

 and occupied.



 Across the highway from our house stood three tiny homes occupied by the

 Conways, Maleys and Traceys. There was a "hollow" behind these homes but I

 recall only two houses there near the tracks from Maple Hill to Ellengowen.

 My uncle Tom Fogarty lived in one for a few years. The other was a little

 farm; the name of the people escapes me. I think it may have been Tregaskis

 but I am not certain. If you crossed the tracks and the lumber yard you 

found  another big house which was occupied by the Downey/McCool families.



 How interesting to see the names of the people trying to locate Janesville.

 My grandmother Fogarty was a Purcell; Tracey and Fowler were families in the

 patch.