Terence MCDERMOTT

MCDERMOTT, HERRON, FEELEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/6/2006 at 01:59:33

The Boone County Democrat, Friday, April 7th, 1911

TERENCE McDERMOTT
Dies at Advanced Age

Terence McDermott, for a number of years a resident of Angus, Iowa, died at the home of his son, Andrew, at Iroquois South Dakota, on Wednesday evening, March 29, [1911] at the advanced age of eighty-seven years. The deceased was born in County Mayo, Ireland. When a young man came to Canada and made that his home for a number of years. There he was united in marriage to Mary Herron. In 1850, who with seven sons and one daughter, survive. In 1865 they came to Iowa and settled in Tama County, where they resided for years. Early in the 80's they removed to Angus, this county, and made their home until the decline of that town. For the past eighteen or twenty years Eagle Grove has been his home with the exception of short visits to his children. The funeral was held on Saturday morning at 10 o'clock from the Catholic Church in Eagle Grove. Rev. Father O'Brien officiating, and the remains laid to rest in the cemetery at that place. All of the children and many other relatives were present at the funeral and six of the same acted as pall bearers. The children who survive are William J. of Eagle Grove, Mrs. Michael Feeley and T. W. of Des Moines, Matt of Minneapolis, John of Pierre, South Dakota, Thomas of Woodbine, Iowa. Andrew of Iroquois, South Dakota and Edmund of Ishpeming, Michigan. Two sons and one daughter, Richard, Patrick and Mary are dead. Besides the eight living children, he is survived by Forty-Seven grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. The deceased was a man of fine qualities of character and remained in strong mental and physical condition up to a short time before his death;