Thomas P. Hanrahan (1920)

HANRAHAN, MCMAHON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 9/5/2011 at 10:47:44

The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 8, 1920

Bevington News Item

THOMAS HANRAHAN

The body of Thomas Hanrahan was found in the field where he had been husking corn Friday evening. Apoplexy was the cause of his death. He had eaten a hearty dinner and gone to the field. The wagon box contained about 20 bushels of corn. At dusk the team came to the house and search revealed the body lying face down between two rows of corn.

The funeral was held Monday with interment at St. Patrick's cemetery. Besides the widow he leaves four brothers and two sisters all living in this neighborhood.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 8, 1920
Page 1, Column 2

Death of Thos. Hanrahan

Our Bevington correspondent gives a brief account of the death of Thos. Hanrahan, who was stricken with apoplexy while at work on his farm near Cumming.

Mr. Hanrahan's untimely death calls to mind the fact that the Hanrahan family, one of the earliest in Lee township, is one that deserves a place in the history of that community. The two elder Hanrahan's, Andrew and James, located in section 34, Lee, in the early sixties. The same farm is now occupied by one of the sons.. The large family of sons and daughters have contributed their full share to the affairs of that prosperous Irish settlement and are worthy representatives of a worthy race of people.

The death of Thomas breaks a circle of six sons and two daughters, most of whom have reached middle age in life and still reside near the old homestead.

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