Mr. James Gillin 1821-1873

GILLIN, MCDONALD

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 5/5/2016 at 09:46:22

Dubuque Herald – Jan. 4, 1874

DEATH OF AN OLD SETTLER

From the Anamosa Journal we clip the following extract relative to the death of Mr. James Gillin, a cousin of Mr. Hugh Devlin, Esq., a prominent citizen of Cascade who died at Anamosa on the 17th of December.

James Gillin had gone to meet his reward. He departed this life Saturday, December 17th, 1873. Twenty years ago, when Anamosa was infancy and undeveloped, he emigrated from the east and made this place his home in life and death. He was born in the parish if Duncan, County Antrim, Ireland in the year 1821. He emigrated to the United Sates in the year 1852, where he worked at his trade, that of shoemaker, in one of the eastern states. He was a hard-working, industrious man, and wherever known was respected as such.

After some eight years residence in the county he married a young lady by the name of Miss Mary McDonald, who is now bereft of her only support in this world and whose loss she is left to mourn. Five children was the result of this marriage, and fatherless as they are today, their little hearts crushed …(the rest of the article is lost).