Martin Gleason (1861 - 1892)

GLEASON, MANNING, BRENNAN

Posted By: M. J. Fitzgerald (email)
Date: 10/11/2009 at 18:07:47

Death notice and obituary of Martin Gleason were published in the Allamakee Journal of July 6, 1892:

At Wexford

The day’s doings (July 4) here were seriously marred by the death announced elsewhere, and although the festivities were moved from Gleason’s to Crowe’s and carried out, a tinge of sadness pervaded the affair even there. T. W. Brennan was to have been orator and Miss Maggie Brennan reader, but both being related to deceased the literary exercises were abandoned and those in attendance confined themselves to picnicking and its attendant pleasures.

Dropped Dead

The sad news of the sudden death of Martin Gleason, of Minden, Neb., reached Lafayette relatives Sunday last. The ashes arrived at Harper’s Ferry Monday afternoon where a large crowd of relatives and friends had gone to meet them. Deceased was the second son of Martin Gleason, of Lafayette, and a finer young man you would not care to know. He was 31 years of age and leaves a wife, a daughter of Thos. Manning, of the same township, and three children. For some time past Mr. Gleason has been deputy county treasurer and previous to that was in the mercantile business at Hartwell. He has been troubled with heart disease but was in his usual health for three months before the fatal attack, which overtook him on the street Saturday afternoon on his way home from the post-office. He fell to the sidewalk and when picked up the vital spark had flown. A very large funeral at Wexford yesterday morning attested the esteem in which deceased was held. The family have the heartfelt sympathy of all who know them.