MCGINN, James, Sr. 1816-1900

MCGINN, HARDMAN, EGAN, CARLON

Posted By: Bruce Kuennen (email)
Date: 11/13/2018 at 00:42:10

Obituary.

James McGinn, Sr., aged eighty-tour years, died at his home in Utica township, Sunday, September 16, 1900, of heart failure.

James McGinn was born in Ireland, County Monahan, in the year 1816. At an early age he bade adieu to his friends and the home of his birth and set sail for America, landing in New York where he at once commenced the struggle of life in his adopted country.

In 1824 he was united in marriage to Bridget Hardman. To this union were born eight children, six of whom still survive to help the sorrowing mother to bear the loss of a kind and loving husband and father.

He resided on Staten Island for three years and then moved to Ogle county, Illinois, where he resided on a farm for eight years. Strong and ambitious as was one of his characteristics and desirous of obtaining a home for wife and family he emigrated to Iowa, settling in Chickasaw county, Utica township, on the farm where he resided until the time of his death.

His sudden calling away was a great shock to his family and the community in which he lives. His health had been apparently good until within a few days of his death when he complained of a distressing pain over the lungs. He possessed all the qualities of a kind, affectionate husband and father. One of his greatest aims in life was for the comfort and happiness of others. He was a kind neighbor, generous to a fault, charitable to the poor, possessing a strong character and was honest and upright in all his dealings. He loved the right and was frank in his aversion to that which was wrong. By energy and perseverance be had won in the battle of life. He was successful in accumulating generous store of the world's goods and with his wife was about to retire from the farm to spend the last days of their declining years in rest in the beautiful home which they had recently purchased in New Hampton when death claimed him as his own.

He was a practical and devoted member of the Catholic church and though suddenly summoned it is a consolation to know that be was not unprepared, for a week prior to his death he received Holy Communion.

The funeral services were held at the church on Reilly Ridge were conducted by Rev. Father Wrenn, who spoke in high terms of the deceased. Reverends Fitzpatrick and Slattery were also in attendance. A large concourse of sympathizing friends followed the remains to their last resting place, which went to show the high esteem in which they held their honored friend.

The sorrowing wife, bereft of her. life-long companion, is the one who will feel his loss most. Beesides the wife the surviving children are, Mrs. W. H. Egan of Sumner; Mrs. P. J. Carlon, of New Hampton; Mrs. James L. Carlon, of Armour, S. D.; James McGinn, of Jerico; and Frank and Peter McGinn, of Saude.

A home is saddened, a cheerfuL voice is hushed, a place is vacant never to be filled. Though parted from each other on earth we hope to meet again in the bright hereafter.

Sleep on dear father,
Take thy rest
In Jesus arms
Forever blest.

May thy soul rest in peace.

Source: New Hampton Tribune, September 25, 1900 accessed at New Hampton Public Library Digital Archives

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