Mulvihill, Edmund 1828-1903

MULVIHILL, WOLFE, CAVEY, MURRAY

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Date: 5/23/2021 at 17:43:29

Oxford Mirror July 30, 1903
Edmund Mulvihill, an Aged Pioneer, Passed Away Last Friday
After an illness covering a period of about two weeks, during which time the patient suffered almost constant pain, Edmund Mulvihill, a pioneer of this vicinity and a man highly respected by the entire community, passed to his spiritual reward last Friday the 24th, at 11:45 a.m. The cause of Mr. Mulvihill's death was cancer of the stomach and during his illness he suffered untold agony, but bore all in silence. Emund Mulvihill was born in Newtown, Kerry county, Ireland, in December 1828
and came to America in 1848, locating at Ottawa, Illinois. In 1852 he went overland to California, remaining two years. In 1854 he returned to Illinois, where he was married to Miss Ellen Wolfe. In October of the
same year, he moved with his bride to Iowa, settling in Liberty township, Clinton county, where he remained for some time, then located on a farm about three miles east of town where he lived with his family until 1895, when he purchased a home in this city and moved here with
his family, where in his declining years he could be free from care and enjoy life in the association of his family and friends. He was father of ten children, eight of whom, together with his aged wife survive him and mourn his death. James died in infancy and Thomas in 1898, the surviving children being as follows: Jerry, Maurice of Monmouth; Ed, John and William of this city; Mrs. P.H. Cavey of Toronto, Mrs. M. Murray, of Hale and Ellen of this city. The funeral was held at St. Mary's church Sunday forenoon at 10 o'clock and interment was made in
the Toronto cemetery. Those who attended the funeral from a distance were Wm. Mulvihill, Mrs. Ed Stack and son Leroy, Ed Walsh, Patrick Nolan, Miss Nellie Mulvihill of Chicago; Judge Wolfe, Clinton, R.C. Wolfe, Misses Mame and Nellie Wolfe, R. B. Wolfe, Dr. M. Scanlan and Maurice Wolfe of DeWitt and T.W. Welsh of Marshalltown.