Michael FITZPATRICK 1870-1895

FITZPATRICK, OBRIEN

Posted By: PETER R. O'BRIEN (email)
Date: 7/4/2007 at 22:40:56

Died of lung fever, at his home Booth township, at 9 o'clock p.m. Friday, May 3,1895, Michael
Fitzpatrick, age 24 years, 5 months and 28 days.
Deceased was the eldest son of J.P.and Honora (O'Brien)Fitzpatrick and was born in Allamakee county, Iowa, 5 Nov 1870. At the age of thirteen he came with the family to the farm in Booth township, where he has since resided.

His illness was of fourteen days duration, during which time all that medical skill and unremitting attention could do was done for his relief. Anticipating the possible approach of death three days before he died, he called the members of the family to his bedside, addressing to each words of councel and admonition. The end came Friday evening, and where all the members of the family could be summoned, the spirit of the Christian son, brother and friend had returned to God who gave it. The funeral took place at 9:39 a.m. Sunday when a procession of seventy teams attended his remains from his home to the Catholic church, in Ayrshire, where services were conducted by the Rev. L.J. Carroll, who spoke on
"Preparation for Death."the sermon was instructive
and highly appreciated by all, and very consoling to the members of the bereaved family. His
remains were laid to rest in the Ayrshire Catholic cemetary. "May his soul rest in peace."

printed in the Palo Alto Reporter on 10 May 1895
in Emmetsburg, Iowa