Winnifred M. (Nicholson) Flattery (1824 - 1901)

NICHOLSON, FLATTERY, LAHART, GAULE, WELSH, WALSH, MCCOY

Posted By: DJ Scieszinski
Date: 4/30/2016 at 16:14:59

THE FRIDAY UNION
Friday, January 25, 1901

WEST END ECHOES

The death of Mrs. Flattery, mother of James and John Flattery and Mrs. William Lahart, took place at the home of her son John, two miles east of Georgetown. She was an aged lady and came with her husband to Monroe county in the early days of settlement. She leaves a host of friends to mourn her demise which was the result of old age and the prevailing wave of la grippe. She was buried Thursday in the Catholic cemetery at Georgetown, Father Gaule conducting the funeral rites.
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MONROE COUNTY NEWS
Friday, January 25, 1901

An Old Settler Gone

Mrs. James Flattery died at her home in Guilford township, this county, at 6 o'clock a. m. Wednesday, January 23, 1901, being about 80 years old. In company with her husband they came to Iowa soon after marriage and settled on the land where he died some years ago, and where she has continued to reside till her death. They settled on their home land in the year of 1850, where their family of seven children were born and raised to manhood and womanhood, save one, who died in infancy. She was born in county Connaught, Ros Common, Ireland, and came to America when young living in the east until coming to this county where she helped to hew their home out of nature and build for the generations that follow her.

She was one of the noble women who leaves the many who knew her to mourn the loss of a good women and the children to mourn the loss and counsel of a mother.

She leaves two sons, James of Franklin township, and John who resides at the old home, four daughters, Mrs. Sarah Welsh, of Georgetown, Mrs. Maggie Lahart, of Melrose, Mrs. Mary McCoy of St. Louis, Missouri, and Miss Lizzie, who has lived with her mother since the death of the father. Being of strong constitution and of active habits, though ailing for some weeks, she was only dangerously sick three days before her death.

Interment took place today the Catholic cemetery at Georgetown attended by her relatives and many friends.

NOTE: Wife of James Flattery (1807 - 1877)