-29- St* L &ohoel's* though boasting only 3ix-iy families in the days of its first existence as a mission* increased rapidly in oiae and inpor* tenee* ftbea the first resident pastor oaaie in 1884* no less than 150 families were within its confines*2? T& 1962* the parish has reverted almost Ifcs original 3tatus* with but seventy families appearing on her rolls. Svery distriet in the area boars mate testimony to ita better days* but none 30 oilcntly as that of the Valley which today is virtu¬ ally abandoned*, five or six houses at best comprising its subois fcence. iaadly names which have disappeared from the parish since its heyday include* Farmer* Eto^ahon, Utack, Callagban* Cody, O 'Gonnoll, liaghos, iJallen* I^jGinnis* Slaven* i .olah* xterrell* ibiger* 0»iteara* Gunnip* Curran* LSartin* S &o&at and £hird* Ja the two great v;ars* several oons of the £>arish enlisted in i : i 3 iifejeoty's forcea. fit* ::iehael auot have been intoroeding loudly for his protegee* for out of the large numbers which went forth to battle only tv?o wore callod to sake the supreme oaerifiee* both in the second combat* Vincent Connolly* serving with the iiCAS** was killed in I^pt in June* 1941* and CTeorge Kelly of the RCA was drowned on the Rhine in 1945* only days before the cessation of hostilities. Sa athletic circles* notably oof tball and baseball, has held her own with the best in the field* Of her residents living today, there are few who have not donned the tanifora* sometimes not a vexy distinctive *no» end 7;\x\ to the field to help bring victory to the