Anna P. Caveney Fahey was born in April of 1853 in Virginia. Anna is the eldest daughter according to the 1860 census of Patrick Caveney and Catherine Glennon. Her siblings are Patrick “PJ” and John F. Caveney.
On June 25th, 1877 Anna married Patrick Fahey in Taylor County, West Virginia. He was the son of Thomas and Mary Fahey.
Patrick died of consumption on May 17, 1879.
In the 1880 census Annie is listed as living with her parents. They used her maiden name.
Her parents died in 1892 & 1893 and her father included daughter, Annie Fahey in the inheritance according to his Will probated April 3rd, 1893.
In 1900 & 1910 the widow Annie Fahey is in Grafton owning a home on Boyd St .
Unable to locate Anna Caveney Fahey after 1910, I followed a path of a Sr. Thomasina. I thought perhaps Ann joined the order of nuns from WV who ran an orphanage in Arizona. Sr. Thomasina’s death certificate listed her secular name as Anna Fahey. Same age.
After working with many archivists in the order it was proven to be a different Anna Fahey.
In the 1920 census another Annie Fahey, a widow from West Virginia of the same age is in the census of Baltimore near where brother John F. Caveney family was residing at the time.
This Annie Fahey was in the Mt. Hope Retreat Insane Asylum (It later became the Seton Institute). More than likely it is the same Annie Caveney. Did she succumb to the same psychosis as her brother John in 1930 or was her insanity due to another issue?
I cannot find a death date or prove that this Annie Fahey at Mt. Hope is a Caveney yet.