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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: Patrick Brady Obit, 1899
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 07:15:13 -0500


Palo Alto Reporter
Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa
Friday, Feb 10, 1899

An Old Settler Gone.
On last Friday, February 3, occurred the death of Mr. Patrick Brady, at his
home in Great Oak township. The immediate cause of Mr. Brady's death was la
grippe, from which he suffered several weeks. The deceased was born in county
Cavan, Ireland, on April 13, 1816, consequently had he lived until April he
would have reached his eighty-third year. At the age of twenty-one he emigrated
from Ireland to this country and settled in Virginia. A few years later he moved
to Joliet, Ill., where on February 9, 1874 he was united in marriage to Miss
Mary Bannon. In 1882 he came to this county, and settled on a farm in Great Oak
township, where he continued to reside until his death. Mr. Brady was an upright
man, and was universally respected. He was well versed in the history of his
native country, and always took an active affairs of this country. He leaves a
wife, a son, Frank Brady, and a daughter, Miss Kittie Brady, to mourn his loss.
The funeral took place from Assumption church on Monday morning, at 10:30
o'clock It was held under the auspices of the A.O.H., of which he was a
prominent member. The services at the church were conducted by Rev. Father
Carroll of Ayrshire, to whose parish the deceased belonged. The remains were
interred in St. John's cemetery.

Cathy Joynt Labath
Irish in Iowa
http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/index.htm
Palo Alto Co, IA USGenWeb Project
http://www.celticcousins.net/paloalto/index.htm
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/
Ireland Old News
http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/


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