Thomas Dillon

DILLON, RENIHAN, MCKENZIE

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 7/20/2014 at 19:00:51

Obituary.

DILLON.

At the family residence, 1136 east Locust street at 3:15 o'clock this morning occurred the death of Thomas Dillon, a retired Yorktown, Illinois, farmer, in the seventy-ninth year of his life. The deceased was a native of County Tipperary, Ireland, and came to this country sixty-two years ago locating at Providence, Rhode Island, where he remained until 1859 when he removed to a farm at Yorktown, Illinois, where he resided until a short time ago when he came to Davenport to spend the years of his retirement. The deceased is survived by his wife, Mary, and five children, three daughters-Katie, now Mrs. Mathew Renihan, Mrs. John McKenzie of Yorktown, Ill., and Miss Isabella, at home, and two sons-Thomas F. of Tampico, Ill., and J.P., of ?. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning at 8:30 from his late residence on east Locust street with services at Sacred Heart Cathedral at 8 o'clock with interment at St. Marguerite's cemetery.

Source: Daily Times, Davenport, Scott, Iowa, 17 May 1897.