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Aengus Kelly was Born
I was born on September 16, 1863. My family was very proor and I lived on a land lords land. I was the oldest Son of six. Because I was the oldest son My parents exspected me to uphold the faimaly farm so I could continue to pay the rent to the land lord. My family were potato growers and had almost lost there land durring the potato famin. -
Bad Crop
This year was exstreemly rainy. It rained for 63 days strait. Because of all of the rain the potato crop died so they could not be sold in the market. I had no money to pay the land lord so i was in debit. soon after i left with all my belonings and a little money. -
Ellis Island
I arived in Ellis Island dirty and tired. I slowly moved through the long curving line heading to the health cheeck. when i reached the cheeck a man exsamined me and then escorted me to a nother room where I saw manny people in beds sick. I fugured since I was sick I would stay here untill i was better than be relesed into the US. I edded up staying at Ellis Island for three weeks. -
Working in New York
Once I was in New York I started serching for a job and housing. I foung housing in a tenements in the middle of the slum. but finding a job took me a wile longer because not many people would hire "Dirty Irish." But in the end I found a job in a Sweatshop. The work in the sweatshop was very hot, corouded, and Dangerous. -
Moving West
I had finally made enough money to move wes and suport myself untill I had a substainibal 160 farm. I packed all of my things like My broun hat, my three pairs of clothes, the pickture of my family, and my boots. I asked around to see when the next wagon train was leaving. I found out the it woulb be leaving in on days time. the next day I met up with the wagon train and joined them. this was a very large wagon train. -
Sikness while travling
I had been traling for almost a year and I am very tired. Many people that are in my waggon train are gettin sick with sicknesses like cholera and malaria. I eventualy got cholera. I was puking and had watery diarrhea. I felt really bad and was woried because many people died from this disease. But evenculy I got better. -
Running For Land
Finaly after walking for what felt like a life time we made it to the west. When I arived I singed up to be in the race for the land. Afrer that I went to buy my self a horse. I bought a real fine horse, realy fast and beautiful. The nexed day lined up on the starting line and when the race started my horse and I shot out and planted our flag into the ground to clame my land. Finaly I had made it, i had my land. -
Farming
I had made A small log caben on my proporty. Also I had started my farm growing Corn, potatoes, lettuce, and tomatoes. I would Trade with the Indians or other Setlers the food that I did not need. Every thing had been going great until one year that had very a lot of snow in the winter, floods from snow melt and rain in the spring ,and then the summer was two hot; so that year the plats did not grow very well. Because of this 4/5 of my crops died. -
Nothing to Trade
Because of the bad wheather i had nothing to trade. 3/4 of my crop died. So I had to just eat what I had and get by. most other farmers had the same problume. Even thought it was hard I'm very glad I decided to come to America.
