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John J. Doyle died 1876

DOYLE, BYRNE, BRAY, CONSIDINE, BALDWIN, MCLAUGHLIN, CROEZEN, LINEHAN

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 5/14/2018 at 21:24:40

Dubuque Daily Times, Sunday, Jun 04, 1876, Dubuque, IA, Page: 4

Funeral of John J. Doyle

The funeral of John J. Doyle took place yesterday afternoon. At 2 o’clock a very large number of friends of the deceased, young and old, who admired him for the sterling character of manhood that marked his life assembled. At the appointed hour the funeral procession left the residence for the Cathedral, the following young gentlemen acting as pallbearers – Joe Linehan, Ed. McLaughlin, William Baldwin, Austin Considine, Vale Croezen, and John Byrne.

On arriving at the Cathedral they bore the remains of him who, but a short time ago, they met in the full glow of life and joyfulness, to the foot of the altar, where even in their boyhood they had knelt in religious devotion. The impressive services for the dead were read by Rev. Father Bray. The remains were then borne to the Third Street Cemetery, where they were laid in the earth near the ashes of a brother dear to him in life, and now near him in death. Around the fresh made grave a hundred persons were gathered to take a parting look at the wreath clad coffin that held the body of one dear to many, one for whom the sorrowing mother wept.

We often hear it said that it is well the young die. It may be so, but the sentiment, though garnished with the sanction of religion, finds no response in the hearts of those who lay their young ones away in the earth forever. It is hard to see death bear away its victims, though they be advanced into the winter of life but it is still harder to look unmoved upon the young stricken down in the warm sunshine of springtime existence – when the world is painted in golden tints - when hope is pregnant with promises of the future both for those who are called away, and for those who are bound to them by tender heart cords. Among the many who saw John Doyle laid away there are few who did not feel pained when the earth fell upon his coffin and closed it in.

The mother who looked upon him with confidence and affection as her life waned away, has the sympathy of all of all in the loss of a son worthy of her love, and who was possessed, when he departed, of the warm esteem of all who knew him.


 

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