New discoveries about our ancestry as reported by my brother:

"William, another brother of Michael was just found on the 1880 census. You guessed it, another Irish Mexican. He worked for Samuel Linsley, another town magnate. William must have been pretty good at making horse shit disappear because he was left a plot of land when Linsley died. The land passed to his nephew Michael and then to Michael's daughter Grace and then, believe it or not, to Jerry who built his first ramshackle shit hole on it."