Dunn, John 1864-1919

DUNN, SHERIDAN

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/8/2017 at 22:03:54

Note: His mother's maiden name is Sheridan. Gravestone has year of birth 1864.

The joy of Christmas week was turned to gloom and sadness in the homes of Mrs. M. A. Agnes, Mrs. T. J. Redmond, Miss Maggie and P. H. Dunn by a message received Saturday evening from a government official at San Francisco, stating that their brother, John Dun, had died on board a U. S. man-of-war enroute to that part from the Philippines Islands.

There were no further particulars, but later word advises that the ship bearing his remains arrived at San Francisco today (Thursday).

The body will be forwarded from there to Akron for burial here beside his mother.

Mr. Dunn had been in the United States customs service in the Philippines for the past seventeen years, or practically ever since this country took control of the Islands. He was enoute to Akron for a holiday visit with relatives when stricken on board the ship on Pacific Ocean. The community tenders its deep sympathy to the sorrowing sisters and brother.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, December 26, 1918
Akron, Iowa

The remains of the late John Dun arrived here on New Year’s Day and in the afternoon interment was made in the Catholic cemetery, beside his mother.

Mr. Dun died on shipboard December 10, 1918, eight days out from Manila, Philippines Islands, where he had been in the U. S. customs service for seventeen years. He had been n failing health for some months and was on his way to Akron in the hope of benefitting his condition when he was stricken with his final illness. His last visit to relatives here was four years ago.

Besides the sisters and brother—Mrs. M. A. Agnes, Mrs. T. J. Redmond, Miss Maggie Dunn and P. H. Dunn, of this city—there survives another sister. Mrs. James McCarty of Sheldon, Ia., who with her husband, has been visiting relatives here this week.

The Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, January 2, 1919
Akron, Iowa