Noonan, Julia (Lynch) – Oldest Person in Iowa

NOONAN, LYNCH

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 8/9/2018 at 13:35:22

Source: Twice-A-Week Plain Dealer Feb. 4, 1902, LP, C7

Mrs, Noonan of Chester, Heads the List of Aged People the{{sic} This State.
Lime Springs, Ia., Jan. 28.—About two miles southwest of Chester, la., lives Mrs. Noonan, believed to be the oldest person in Iowa, and perhaps in the northwest.
Mrs. Noonan was born in Woodford county, Galway, Ireland, August 14, 1794, and is therefore, 108 years of age, and has lived in three centuries. Her maiden name was Julia Lynch.
Eighty-one years ago next March she was married to Michael Noonan, supervisor of government roads in her native country. In the fall of 1854 they came to America and established their home at Gewark, Ohio. Three years afterwards they moved to Warnersville, Wis., and again, in 1872 to Chester, Iowa.