The McKeone Family

The McKeone family represents a classic Irish immigration pattern through Hubbardston. Peter McKeone (b. ~1861, d. September 30, 1938) and Mary McKeone (b. ~1865, d. March 2, 1915) are buried at St. John the Baptist Cemetery; Peter's record lists 'New York' — a hallmark transit route for Irish immigrants through western New York before moving inland to Michigan. James McKeone (b. ~1892, d. 1972), likely Peter's son, is also interred at St. John's. Julia McKeone married Edgar Clarence Stoddard, producing one of Hubbardston's largest families with 13 or more children. The McKeone surname (Mac Eóin, 'son of John') is 96.97% Catholic in the 1911 Irish census and clusters in the Connacht province — County Sligo, Leitrim, and Roscommon — placing the family's origins squarely in the west of Ireland.