Fitzpatrick, James, 1835-1926

FITZPATRICK, LINNAN, LINNANE

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Date: 6/13/2021 at 20:33:37

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).