Neary, Patrick 1844-1930

NEARY, KNOCKTON

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SUDDEN CALL TO EARLY SETTLER OF UNION COUNTY

Patrick Neary, Resident of This Vicinity 50 Years, Dies Suddenly

Patrick Neary, a resident of Akron vicinity for more than fifty years and among the early settlers of eastern Union County, S. D., passed away at his farm home, southwest of town, at 3:20 a.m. Thursday morning, December 25, 1930, after a brief illness, of heart trouble, aged 86 years and 8 months.

Mr. Neary did not start to retire for the night until after his daughter, Mr. Wm. B. Ross, and family had returned from the midnight Christmas services at St. Patrick's Catholic Church. He was about to get into bed when his son-in-law, Mr. Ross, noticed that he was ill. A doctor was called, and also Rev. Fr. Roder, who administered the last rits of the church before the final summons came.

Patrick Neary, son of Martin and Margaret Knockton Neary, was born in April, 1844, in the town of Craigs, County Galway, Ireland. He was left an orphan at the age of fourteen years, at which time he assumed the responsibility of the home and three younger children.

At the age of twenty-seven years Mr. Neary came to American, in 1871, and located in New York, where he remained for six years, married and came west in 1877 to carve out a home in the new country. He took a homestead in Union County, then Dakota Territory, residing there a number of years. Later he and his family resided on farms at Parkston and Elk Point, S. D. In 1905 he moved to Akron, Ia., in and near which place he continued to live until the time of his death.

He was preceded in death by his wife and two children, William Neary and Anna Neary Ross.

Mr. Neary is survived by five children--M. W. Neary, of San Francisco, Calif.; Mrs. William B. Ross, of AKron, Ia.; J. A. and E. F. Neary, of Elk Point, S. D., and Joseph W. Neary, of Akron, Ia.

They have the sympathy of the community in the loss of a kind and devoted father. A man of quiet, unassuming nature, he was withal pleasant and friendly, of industrious habit and honorable and upright in all contacts with his fellow man. He will be missed and mourned by his family and a host of friends, after a long and useful life.

Funeral services were hled Saturday morning in St. Patrick's Catholic Church, of which he was a faithful member, conducted by Rev. Father J. A. Roder. Interment was in the local Catholic cemetery.

Mrs. Tom Maxwell and son, George, of Parkston, S. D., were relatives who came from a distance to attend the funeral.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, January 1, 1931
Akron, Iowa