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From: Randi Richardson <>
Subject: [INMONROE] John and Sarah Fitzpatrick
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 07:40:11 -0500

Bloomington (IN) Telephone, Mar 1, 1907, p. 1.

FITZPATRICKS LEAVE

Uncle John and Aunt Sarah Fitzpatrick left Bloomington this morning perhaps
never to return. They have gone to the Soldiers' Home at Lafayette to
spend the few remaining years of their lives before starting on the long
journey from which there is no returning. The old couple, both broken in
health, left Bloomington with many sad misgivings in their hearts, for to
them the old home is as dear as to anyone.

The departure of the Fitzpatricks is the loss of another connecting link
between the old and the new Bloomington. For years they have been local
characters. Uncle John was a soldier and after the war drink gradually
dragged him and his wife down to the ranks of the submerged tenth. They
became habitual drunkards, spending a great deal of their time in the
county jail. Finally old age overtaking them, the good ladies of the city
secured their admission to the Soldiers' Home where they have gone and
where they can forget their years of degradation, and Uncle John can fight
over the old battle with soldier comrades.

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