O'Connor, Margaret (Lennone) 1837 - 1918
OCONNOR, LENNONE, MCNAMARA
Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 3/15/2014 at 17:14:33
Edgewood, Iowa, Aug. 2 - Mrs. John O'Connor, an aged lady, died at her home north of here yesterday. She had been ailing for several years from the infirmities of age. She is survived by three sons, Michael, who resides at Garber, Iowa; Edward, who lives on the old homestead; Patrick, a physician of Amboy, Minn., and one daughter, Mrs. Michael McNamara, of Rock Valley, Iowa. Funeral services will be held at the Catholic church at Littleport and interment made in the Catholic cemetery at that place.
~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Saturday evening edition, August 3, 1918
~Note! The WPA record is incorrect for Mrs. O'Connor. A photo of her gravestone in the Littleport Sacred Heart cemetery can be found on Find-A-Grave. Both the WPA record & the text info. on Find-A-Grave give the wrong year of death, although the gravestone is clear that it was 1918.
Also: DOB should be confirmed. obit in Register & Argus (below) DOB=1837, gravestone DOB=1842, death cert.=1840
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Added by Reid R. Johnson, 11/23/2021
Elkader Register & Argus, Thur., 15 Aug. 1918. Elkport column.
Mrs. John O'Connor, a highly respected lady of Littleport, died at the home of her son Edward on Wednesday, July 31, at the age of 81 years.
Mrs. O'Connor's health had been failing, yet she was able to be about the house until a few days before her death. Being fortified by the last rites of the Catholic church and the presence of her loving children at her bedside, her death was very happy.
Margaret Lennone was born at Ballyvaughan in Clare county, Ireland, in 1837. In 1857 she emigrated to America, residing in Baltimore Maryland, during the four years of the Civil War.
In 1868 she was united in marriage to John O'Connor at St. Peter's Catholic church at Westernport, Md. They moved to Iowa in 1882, settling near Littleport, where Mr. O'Connor died in Feb. 1900. Since her husband's death she resided on the old homestead with her son Edward.
Mrs. O'Connor will be missed from the community, for her kindness, her honesty and her Christian spirit had endeared her to a wide circle of friends who will revere her memory for many years to come.
The surviving children are Edward, of Littleport; Dr. P. H. O'Connor, of Amboy, Minn.; Mrs. M. McNamara, of Rock Valley, Ia. and M. J. O'Connor, of Garber, Ia., besides several grandchildren who have the sympathy of all in their irreparable loss.
Funeral services were held from the Sacred Heart church on Friday morning, Rev. D. T. Minogue officiating. In high terms he praised the virtues of this noble hearted Christian woman, whom we now hope is enjoying the reward she spent her life to receive.
A large concourse of people followed the remains to the Catholic cemetery where she was laid to rest beside the remains of her husband.
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