Fitzpatrick, James 1835/39 -1926 & Mary Ellen Linnane Family

FITZPATRICK, LINNAN, LINNARE

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Date: 2/20/2022 at 14:40:27

Fitzpatrick, James 1835/1839-1926 and Mary Ellen Linnane 1852-1933/1936

This story was taken from pages 72-73 of the Rock Valley St. Mary’s Catholic Church Book written for the centennial of the church in about 1982(?). The story was transcribed for this BIOS by Beth De Leeuw of the Greater Sioux County Genealogical Society. Some research notes were added.

JAMES FITZPATRICK was born in Ireland in 1839 and came to America during the potato famine at the age of nineteen. He then went to Klondike in search of gold but returned and settled in Littleport, Iowa, where he married MARY ELLEN LINNAN. She was born in 1852.

They later came west to Maurice, Iowa with a team and wagon, looked for land and bought a quarter section northwest of Rock Valley where they farmed until moving to Madison, South Dakota in 1911.

They were the parents of twelve children – Mary Ellen, Bridget, Jennie, Kathryn, Margaret, Ann, John, James, Michael, Mary, Frances and Leo.

James Fitzpatrick died in 1926 and his wife, Mary Ellen, passed away in 1936.

MARY ELLEN FITZPATRICK was born in 1869 and died in 1880.

BRIDGET FITZPATRICK was born in 1871. Her entire life was spent with her parents. She retired in Madison, South Dakota and died in 1944.

JENNIE FITZPATRICK was born in 1873. She married Frank Hevern on February 12, 1901 and they were the parents of Edward Alhonsus, Leo Clement, Mary Loretta, James Gerald, Frances Ligouri and Boniface William (See Hevern). Jennie died in 1961.

KATHRYN FITZPATRICK was born in 1875. She married Ed Hevern and they farmed northwest of Rock Valley. To this union four children were born. Frances, the oldest, died in infancy and is buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery. The others were Frances, Joseph and James. Frances is deceased and buried in Hillsboro, South Dakota (See Hevern). Joseph and James are present members of St. Mary’s.

KATHRYN died in 1902.

MARGARET FITZPATRICK was born in 1877. She taught school for four years and then married John Solon in Rock Valley. They later moved to Winfred, South Dakota where they farmed for a number of years and they moved to a farm in Nunda, South Dakota until they retired. She died in 1946 and is buried there.

ANN FITZPATRICK was born in 1879 and died in 1880.

JOHN FITZPATRICK was born in 1881 and died in 1882.

JAMES FITZPATRICK, JR. was born in 1882. He moved to Madison with his parents. He married Irma Minnaert and they later moved to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where they lived until they retired. He died in 1968.

MICHAEL FITZPATRICK was born in 1887. He also moved to Madison with his parents in 1911. He died in 1920 and is buried there.

MARY FITZPATRICK was born in 1890. She kept house for a number of priests in the Madison and Sioux Falls area before her marriage to Charles Payette. They moved to Puerto Rico where her husband taught school, and then moved to Minneapolis. Her husband died there. Mae is currently living in Valley Manor.

FRANCES FITZPATRICK was born in 1894 and died the same year.

LEO FITZPATRICK was born in 1896 and went to the Catholic Grade School in Rock Valley until he moved with the family to Madison. After he finished school there he was a carpenter for most of his life although he worked as a mechanic and for the county. In later years he was a janitor for the Catholic Church and High School. He was a musician and played the violin. He died in 1979.

RESEARCH NOTES:
According to a family report on ancestry.com (by others family members) James Leo Fitzpatrick was born May 1839 in county Cork, Ireland and died 1926 Madison Lake SD, son of Matthew Fitzpatrick 1805-1880 and Bridget Fitzpatrick 1803-1893.
James married Mary Linnane 9 Oct 1869 at Elkader Clayton Co. IA. Mary Ellen Linnane was born abt 1852 in Ireland and died 4 Apr 1933 Madison Lake, SD. Her parents were Michael Linnane 1813-1899 and Ellen Linnane 1826-1916.

OBITUARY OF JAMES FITZPATRICK From the Rock Valley Bee, August 27, 1926:
FORMER RESIDENT DEAD James Fitzpatrick, a former pioneer resident of this vicinity, died at his home in Madison, S.D., last week Thursday at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. Mr. Fitzpatrick will be remembered by all the elder residents of this vicinity. He and his family lived on a farm northwest of Rock Valley for a number of years before moving to Madison some sixteen years ago.
Funeral services were held at Madison Monday. A number of friends of the family from Rock Valley attended the funeral services. The pall bearers were: Patrick O’Brien, Mike Moran and John Flynn, of Madison, and D. J. Scanlan, Thos. Higgins and Thos. Cullinin, of Rock Valley.
Relatives from a distance who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hevern and sons Gerald and Alfonse and daughter Loretta, Jos. Hevern, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Cullinan and sons Thomas and Martin and daughter Josephine, B. M. Doherty and daughters Ellen and Genevieve, Margaret and Walter McNamara of Rock Valley, John Maher and son Mike and daughter, and Alma Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Fitzpatrick and sons John and Martin, Mrs. Margaret Kaskie, Pat Cullinan and son George, Gary, S.D., and Miss Carrie Roberts, of Eden, S.D., Mrs. John Linnan, of Maurice, Iowa.
Friends from a distance who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Higgins and daughters Irene and Dorothy, Mrs. Kate Akin, Raymond Keegan, James Keegan, D. J. Scanlan, of Rock Valley; Father C. B. Hemel, Eden, S.D., and Thos. Solon, Winfred, S.D.
The Madison Leader gives the following account:
James Fitzpatrick, Sr., retired farmer and resident of Madison during the last 16 years, died at his home in the northwest part of the city about 9:15 o’clock last night, death being caused by gall stones and other complications, with which he had suffered for several months, the last three weeks of which he was bedfast. He was 87 years old.
Mr. Fitzpatrick was born and raised to young manhood in Ireland, coming to this country when about 26 years old. He landed in Canada, and subsequently went to Kansas City Mo., and then to Iowa, where he settled. He was married in Manchester, Iowa, to Mary Linnen, and came to Madison to live about 16 years ago. He is survived by his wife, two sons and four daughters. The sons are James Fitzpatrick, Jr., and Leo Fitzpatrick, both of this city. The daughters are Miss Bridget Fitzpatrick, who lives at home; Mrs. John Solon, of Junius; Mrs. Frank Hevern, of Rock Valley, Iowa and Mrs. C. T. Payette, of this city. He is also survived by 15 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be held from the St. Thomas church at 9 o’clock next Monday morning, Father Flynn officiating. Burial directed from the Holman & Kundert funeral home, will be made in the Catholic cemetery.
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The South Dakota Death Index 1879-1955 on Ancestry.com has James F. Fitzpatrick, died 20 Aug 1926 in Lake County, SD.
FindaGrave.com has James Leo Fitzpatrick Sr., born 1835 in County Cork, Ireland, died 1926 in Madison, Lake County, South Dakota, buried Saint Thomas Cemetery, Madison. It includes unattributed biographical data, saying that he came to America in 1854 at age 19 during the potato famine, went to the Klondike in search of gold [transcriber’s note: it seems very unlikely that he went to the Klondike, more likely to Montana] but returned and settled in Littleport, Clayton County, Iowa. Married Mary Ellen Linnane October 9, 1869 in St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Elkador, Clayton County, Iowa, when he was 34 and she was 16. She had immigrated from Ireland to Littleport with her parents in 1866. About 1885 James, Mary Ellen, and their four daughters – Bridget, Jane, Catherine, and Margaret – came west to Maurice, Iowa with a team and wagon and a cow, and bought a quarter section of land two miles west and four miles north of Rock Valley, where they farmed until moving to Madison, S.D. in 1910. It gives family names and ages from various censuses. Parents, Matthew Fitzpatrick (1805-unknown) and Bridget Fitzpatrick (1803-1893). Siblings, Patrick Fitzpatrick (1826-1910) and Dennis Fitzpatrick (1839-unknown). Spouse, Mary Ellen Linnane Fitzpatrick (1852-1933). Children: Mary Ellen Fitzpatrick (1869-1880), Bridget Ann Fitzpatrick (1871-1944), Jane Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Hevern (1873-1961), Catherine Theresa Fitzpatrick Hevern (1875-1902), Margaret Irene Fitzpatrick Solon (1877-1946), Ann Fitzpatrick (1879-1880), John Fitzpatrick (1881-1882), Michael J. Fitzpatrick (1887-1920), Mary Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Payette (1890-1984), James Leo Fitzpatrick (1892-1968), Francis Fitzpatrick (1894-1894), and Leo Francis Fitzpatrick (1896-1979).

OBITUARY OF MARY ELLEN FITZPATRICK was not found in local papers, due to dying in South Dakota. Find a Grave lists Mary Ellen Fitzpatrick as born 1852 County Cork, Ireland died 1933 Madison, Lake Co. SD, husband James Leo Fitzpatrick, parents Michael and Ellen Linnane. 12 children were listed.

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