Born in Montana
The woman the world came to know as Nellie May Madison was initially known as Nellie May Mooney. She was born in Red Rock, Montana, on the 5th of April, 1895. Her parents were Edward Mooney and Catherine Doherty Mooney.
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The Mooneys were originally from Ireland and had moved to the United States in the 1880s to start a new life. They had benefited from the government’s homestead program and started their sheep ranch, not far from the city of Dillon, Montana.