was identified were sent back to ireland. >> when it was time to take john back i gave them money to take him back. >> reporter: back to his home of don 93-gallon the ancestral home of kathy's familiarly. >> actually put the remains of somebody died over here in the ground in their home is probably the most important thing he ever did. >> bill watson and his brother frank led the duffy's cut efforts. >> kathy helped us to move on with the dig. >> now kathy is doing it again. paying for the remains of another victim the only woman to go home. >> catherine burns is ready to go back to ire land. lately felt this great pull to the one woman one woman and her name happens to be catherine burns. mine is kathleen burns. but what a coincidence. >> reporter: in gratitude she's been given a nail from catherine burns coffin like the one she has from the other immigrants she sent home john rudd dee. it's just so wonderful to touch them. there's like a magic that comes out of them. report roar connections to the past that kathy mcgee burns will treasure forever. >>> chris may, cbs3 "eyewitness ne