Joseph Sheehy was born in Massachusetts in 1842. He lived at Postville, Iowa, until in 1880, when he came to Fargo and in 1882 to the Bordulac area and homesteaded on the Southwest 1/4 of Section 28.
On March 5, 1886 he married Ellen Garvey. Ellen was born in Ohio on March 17, 1854, and had also lived in Missouri before moving to Iowa with her parents.
The couple had two sons: Eill and Park.
Mr. Sheehy assisted in building the first Catholic Church in Foster County in 1888, which is now at Bordulac.
Mr. Sheehy died in April 1910. Mrs. Sheehy died in December 1934. They are buried in Iowa.
Source: A History of Foster County 1983 Page 11B