Corinne and Alice McCarville and Our Irish Roots

Thanks to cousin Corinne McCarville Lester, who wrote a nifty little book on the subject, "My Irish Roots", I can trace my McCarville roots back to John McCarval on one side and to Michael and Mary Lynch in the City of Monaghan and to John Logue and Isabelle Logue of Derry on the other side.

Well, you will hear more about my Irish roots later, but I wanted to say that Corinne reports that Alice McCarville, my aunt, or my father's brother Bill's wife, just celebrated her 100th birthday. She is living in a nursing home near Rhinelander and very alert. I have to admit that I lost track of them long ago, but we had a great conversation and caught up on so much.

What I didn't know (I was younger than Corinne) was that she played college basketball long before women's sports became popular, and scored fifty points one night for UW-Oshkosh.

I also understand from Harold McCarville, that Jim W. McCarville, not me, published a detailed family tree that has all of our branch in it. He had a CD on the entire McCarville family tree that I am trying to find out if he has any copies left.