John L. MULLIGAN

MULLIGAN, HANIFY, WELCH, CUMMINGS, PLUNKET, PLUNKETT, GARRITY, BURNES

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/17/2016 at 15:19:01

September 7, 1892 --- April 8, 1898

Death, the invidious, relentless foe of mankind, is no respecter of persons. It claims the rich, the poor, the young, the old, the plain, the fair, the weak, the strong. It has entered this community again and took from a happy home a promising tad of tender years.

Little Johnny Mulligan, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Mulligan, whose serious sickness we have chronicled, died on Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock, after a month of very painful suffering. The skill of the physician and the tender nursing of father and mother were unavailing, and by his death one of the pleasantest and brightest households in Eagle Grove is shrouded in gloom.

Johnny was five years old the 7th day of last September, a little lad with a bright intellect, a loving and affectionate disposition, and the joy of the parental home. He had been attending the public schools, and although young in years, learned rapidly and was a favorite with his teacher. A few weeks ago he complained of severe physical pains, immediately lost his appetite and seemed gradually going into a decline. Then he had the measles, but recovered nicely, but the other trouble seemed to stay with the little fellow. A month ago he was confined to the bed and continued to grow weaker and more debilitated, the real trouble proving to be kidney disease that battled all medicines.

Johnny was an only child and the parents feel the affliction most keenly; the more so perhaps because they have already buried three children—another son and two daughters. This last death leaves them childless, and in their sore affliction the hearts of all go out to them.

At 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon funeral services were held at the Catholic church, conducted by Father Garland, and the interment took place in the family grounds at Rose Hill. The funeral was one of the largest ever held in the city, showing how highly the family is esteemed. More than seventy five teams were in the procession to the cemetery. The pall bearers were Robert and Oliver Lynch, Johnnie Welch, and Hugh Laird,

The friends from abroad who attended Johnny's funeral were his grandfather, James Hanify, his uncle, Patrick Welch, and aunt, Miss Winnie Hanify, of Toledo; his aunts, Miss Mary Mulligan and Mrs. Wm. Cummings, and his three cousins, Miss Sadie, James and John Cummings, all of Tama; his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Plunket, of Lake City; Mrs. Frank Garrity, of Bradgate; and Mrs. John Burnes, of Tama.

BOONE VALLEY GAZETTE - Eagle Grove, Iowa
April 14, 1898

source -- Paul Wilde