Joseph Motie 1820-1880

MOTIE, MOTIER, LYNCH, FAYLE

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Date: 2/13/2015 at 16:43:33

From The Davenport Daily Times, Monday, August 30, 1880

THE FUNERAL OF JOSEPH MOTIE

The funeral of Mr. Joseph Motie oc-
curred this forenoon, and was attended by
a large number of people. The Sodality
of St. Marguerite’s marched in a body to
the family residence, two miles north of
the city, at 8 o’clock — and then there was
a long procession to St. Marguerite’s
Church, where a requim (sic) mass was sung,
and Father Cosgrove delivered a feeling
address. The pall bearers were Harvey
Leonard, James Baker, Samuel Orendorff,
Thomas Hebert, Thomas Jones and James
Whitney. The internment was at St. Mar-
guerite's cemetery.

The deceased was born in Portage des
Sioux, Missouri, March 17, 1820. He
came to Davenport in 1839, and has lived
here ever since. He built a brick house
where the city elevator stands, and lived
there many years. He was a brick-layer
by trade — and here he became a brick
manufacturer and building contractor,
being for some time a partner of Harvey
Leonard and again of Mr. Hebert. He
was a very industrious, deserving, ener-
getic, business man in the years of his
strength — and was ever liberal-hearted,
and a good citizen. Long since he pur-
chased a tract of twenty or thirty acres
along Duck Creek, two miles north of the
city, and five or six years ago he built a
comfortable house there, and made it his
home — after having lived for twenty years
at the corner of LeClaire and Tenth
streets. He helped organize the Sodality
of which he was a member, in
1859, and was its music leader
for twenty-one years. His surviving
children are: Mrs. Michael B. Lynch, of
Odebolt, Sac county, Iowa; Mrs. Wm.
Fayle, of Muscatine; Frank, merchant at
Odebolt; Emily and Josie — the former
Sister Mary Henrietta and the latter Sister
Mary Isadore, of the Order of the Sisters of
Charity — one of Chicago, the other at Wa-
terloo; and Ella, George, Henry, Lillie and
Mary, who are minors and are at home
with their mother. The fatal ailment was
dropsy of the heart , with which Mr. Mo-
tie had suffered for many weeks.