James WHEALON

WHEALON, DUNN, MCCARRON, COATES, NICHOLSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/30/2009 at 09:24:18

Palo Alto Tribune, Emmetsburg, Iowa
May 3, 1905

DEATH OF JAMES WHEALON
Former Resident of Palo Alto County Passes Away at Sioux City

James Whealon, a former resident of this county lived in Vernon township for many years died at his home in Sioux City recently. From the Sioux City Journal we get the following.

James Whealon, aged 73 years, died at his home, 918 Iowa St., at 1155 o'clock Saturday night, as a result of kidney trouble. Mr. Whealon had been suffering from the disease for the past three years and his death was unexpected. His daughter, Mrs. J. S. Dunn, and son, Steve Whealon, both of St. Paul, had been called to this should city and were present with the other members of the family at the time of his death.

The deceased man was born in Inisdimond [sic-Ennistymon?], County Clare, Ireland, in 1832. In May, 1850, he went to Scotland, where he worked for four years in the iron foundries at Damfrice. In August, 1854, he came to America and worked in the eastern and southern states on steamboats and railroads.

In June 1, 1859, he was married in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Miss Elizabeth McCarron, who survives him. The same year he came to Dubuque and went farming. While they lived on a farm six boys and three girls were born to them. In 1879, Mr. Whealon went with his family to Davidson county, S. D., where he continued to farm. He took an active part in the first capitol fight there. He came to Sioux City in 1891.

All of the boys in Mr. Whealon's family took to railroading, two of them meeting their death in that vocation, John B. was killed on November 10, 1896, while he was yard master at Eagle Grove, Iowa, for the Northwestern, and Joseph was killed in 1892 at Charter Oak on the Milwaukee. Those who survive Mr. Whealon besides his wife are James, a fireman for the Milwaukee; Cornelius, a conductor for the Omaha; Frank, engineer for the Great Western; Steve, engineer for the Great Western; Mrs. Rose Dunn of St. Paul, Mrs. Kate Coates and Mrs. Mary Nicholson, both of Sioux City.