Thomas Sullivan 1820-1903

SULLIVAN, DONOVAN, BULGER, BOLGER, DUFFY

Posted By: Ann Krumme (email)
Date: 2/13/2012 at 08:28:44

Thomas Sullivan, a pioneer of Taylor twp., died Sept. 29, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Thomas Bulger, at Deadwood, S. D., aged 83 years.

He was born in Ireland Aug. 17, 1820, and came to Canada in 1847, and to Boston in 1849, where he married Bridget Donovan in Sept. 1851, and came with his young bride to Taylor twp. in November of that year.

Eight children were born to them, the mother and four of them preceding him in death. Two sons, Own and John, and two daughters, Mrs. Duffy and Mrs. Bolger, survive.

~Allamakee Journal and Lansing Mirror, Looking Backward 25 Years column (1903),
October 3, 1928