Sacramento County Biographies DENIS MORONEY Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm DRY CREEK TOWNSHIP. Page 256 Post Office, Hicksville, lives six miles from that town and twenty-five miles from Sacramento; was born in Ireland in 1829, and lived there until 1848; emigrated to the United States in that year, and resided in the City of New York until 1858, engaged in draying; he then came to this State and county; owns five hundred and forty-six acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $12,000. Mr. Maroney was married in 1855 to Bridget Sexton, also a native of Ireland; they have four children---a son and three daughters. A view of his place may be seen on another page. Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by Thompson & West.