AGED DAUGHTER OF PIONEER CAIROITE DIES AT DUPO, ILL.

Telegrams received yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Baird and others announced the death at Dupo Saturday of Mrs. Kate Hamilton, 88 years old, for many years a resident of Cairo.

The body will be taken to Mounds for interment in Beech Grove Cemetery at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, and relatives and friends will go to Mounds at 2 o'clock on the interurban car to attend the funeral.

Arrangements had been made for an earlier services but announcement was made last night by Undertaker G. A. James, who will direct the funeral of the change in time. Services will be conducted at St. Raphael's Church at Mounds by Fr. Feeney.

Mrs. Hamilton was a daughter of Bryan Shaughnessy. She was two years old when he came here in 1838 as one of the contractors for the first Illinois Central embankment between Cairo and Mounds.

He remained in Cairo and became one of the most prominent citizens, being connected with many improvement projects.

Her husband, John Hamilton, was in the mercantile business her and later erected the building at 602 Commercial Ave., where he opened a furniture and carpet store in the '80's.   He was fatally injured in a fall at the store and died a few days later. Mrs. Hamilton left here soon afterward and lived in Cape Girardeau for a time but returned to Cairo and made her home her until about seven years ago when she went to live with her son, John W. Hamilton, a railroad man running between East St. Louis and Dupo.

Her son is her only near relative but she has several others living her among them Edward and Jesse Shaughnessy, sons of her brother. Mr. Baird and Mrs. E. A. Carkuff.

I would like to make some addition to this. Her husband had to have opened his store, Hamilton Bros. Furniture inthe 1860's as he died in 1869. Her father, Bryan Shannessy, was a postmaster twice and a circuit court judge as well as police magistrate. I have also been told by my late Grandmother and her sister that he owned and ran a boarding house or hotel around the time of the Civil War.  

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The following are the obits for Sarah Shannessy

Sarah Shannessy, w/o Bryan Shannessy; Ellen Shannessy, d/o Bryan Shannessy & his 1st wife & Bryan Shannessy. Cairo Daily Bulletin - 13 August 1871 Funeral Notice - The funeral service of the late Mrs. Shannessy will take place at the Church of the Redeemer today at 1 o'clock, pm. The remains will be conveyed to Villa Ridge for interment, on a special train at 2 o'clock. The friends of the deceased are respectfully invited to attend. Cairo Daily Bulletin - Tuesday - 3 July 1877 Miss Ellen Shaunessy, daughter of 'Squire Bryan Shaunessy, died on Sunday last and was burried ( sic ) from the family residence at the corner of Twelfth and Poplar streets yesterday afternoon.

Cairo Evening Sun - 6 November 1878 Dead Bryan Shannessy, Esq., aged 73 years, died at his residence in this city yesterday morning. He was one of our oldest and most honored inhabitants. The editor of the Bulletin, who has known him 30 years, says: " 'Squire Shannessy had been a resident of the State of Illinois for a period of over forty-two years, over forty years of which time he lived in Cairo. Hence, at the time of his death he was indeed and in verity, "the oldest inhabitant." During that long period of time he had served the people in different capacities, having filled the offices of justice of the peace, county commissioner, overseer of the poor, alderman, postmaster and police magistrate; and if in any man lives who can say that in an official capacity 'Squire Shannessy wronged him out of one dollar or one cent, we have no personal knowledge of that man and never heard of him. Few citizens of Cairo are more widely known that 'Squire Shannessy, most especially among the old residents of Southern Illinois, Southeast Missouri and Western Kentucky. Everywhere in those sections of the country the intelligence of his death will be received with evidences of sorrow, for wherever you find an acquaintance of the old man you will be very apt to find a friend". The funeral services were held at the residence of to-day and the remains taken to Villa Ridge for burial on a special train at 2 1/2 o'clock this afternoon.

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2 obits for John Hamilton

John Hamilton, husband of Catherine Hamilton, nee Shannessy. I've transcribed both of them for you. They are as follows: Cairo Daily Bulletin - 24 August 1869 The detail of the accident by which Mr. John Hamilton came so near losing his life, about a month ago are familiar to all our local residents. The recovery of Mr. H. was slow and being restless in confinement, ventured out before his condition warranted it. He was out in the city yesterday and attempted to return home during the extreme heat of the afternoon. He had gained a point on Fourteenth street between the Commercial avenue and Poplar street, when he fell utterly exhausted and rolling down the decline of the street ill ( ? ), was picked up in a state of insensibility and conveyed to his home. This morning he was still alive, but he breathed with great difficulty and gave out every evidence of approaching dissolution. By the time this paper falls into the hands of its local readers he will no doubt have entered on the realities of another world. The crushing assurance that his case was beyond all medical aid, was conveyed to his wife this morning. She had watched by his bedside every moment of the night and was, therefore scarcely unprepared for the mournful truth. In her great grief she has the warmest sympathies of the entire community. Mr. Hamilton has resided in Cairo many years, has shown himself a good citizen, and a kind husband and his loss will be long and deeply felt.

Cairo Daily Bulletin - 24 August 1869 Funeral of John Hamilton At 3 o'clock to-day the members of the Arab and Rough and Ready Fire Companies, with a large number of citizens, assembled in the Church of the Redeemer, where the Rev. J. W. Coe pronounced a funeral sermon over the body of John Hamilton. At 4 o'clock a train, consisting of two passenger coaches and a box car left the foot of sixth street, crowded to excess with citizens and firemen, for the Mounds City burying ground, where the remains were interred. The high esteem in which the deceased was held was manifested by the large number who attended the funeral services and participated in the last --- rites of burial. Mr. H. was a member of the Arab Fire Company. There are a few corrections & facts: John Hamilton was buried in Mounds not Mounds City at the Beech Grove Cemetery. The 3 dashes are for a 3 letter word that I can not make out. The articles on his death and funeral were very hard to read as ink had bleed through from the front pages and there were some black areas the could not be read. Most I could make out with a lot of studying, but not the one that has dashes. The Church of the Redeemer was an Episcopal Church in Cairo.

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This obit says he was from Mill Creek which is in Union Co, but he actually lived just south of the County line in Alexander Co.  Anna  

LEVI R. JORDAN

1835-1921   This obituary is from The Evening Citizen, Cairo, IL, November 22, 1921.   FATHER OF 20 CHILDREN LAID TO REST–The burial of Levi R. Jordan, who died at White Heath, Ill., last Friday, was held at Mill Creek Saturday.  Mr. Jordan was born at Saulsbury (Salisbury), N. C. February 10, 1835, the youngest of seven children.  His parents removed to Illinois when he was 3 years old, settling in the southern part of Union county where he lived until his marriage to Sarah Cauble in 1861.  They had nine children of who four survive.  His wife died in 1877 and he was again married in 1882 to Martha Kerr and nine children were the result of this union, five of them now living.  The children are Francis Atchison, Mill Creek, Ida Miller, Thebes; Chester Jordan, St. Louis, Lisa Lackey, Tamms, Harvey Jordan, Cairo, Dixie Spencer, White Heath, Clara Dillow, Mill Creek, Adeline Pollard, Charleston, MO and Leona Sheffer, Mill Creek.  Besides, there were 55 grandchildren and 76 great-grandchildren.  He was a good citizen, a devoted husband and father.  While he did not belong to any church, he professed religion when 22 years old.  For several years he has lived with his children.  He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dixie Spencer, at White Heath, there being three of his children at his bedside.  The remains, which were brought to Cairo and taken charge by Undertaker E. A. Burke, were taken to the home of his son, Harvey Jordan, here until they were taken to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frances Atchison.  His children wish to thank the many friends for their kindness during his sickness and at his death.

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Sikeston Standard Democrat: Obituaries Column

STANDARD----DEMOCRAT

Thomas J. Neal

CHARLESTON - Thomas J. "Juby" Neal, 73, died at 3:20 a.m. Feb. 20, 1999, at the Charleston Manor.

Born Aug. 27, 1925, in Morehouse to the late Matthew and Elsie Bailey Neal, he had lived for 23 years in Ste. Genevieve, where he was a member of the Ste. Genevieve Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus and was employed with the Alton and Southern Railroad until he retired in 1986. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army serving in World War II and was a member of VFW Post 2649 in Cairo, IL. In November 1997 he moved to Charleston, MO

On Nov. 1, 1997, he married Jo Elma Carter, who survives of the home.

Other survivors are: one daughter, Tommie Jean Morris of Lake St. Louis; one stepson, Bill Grenier of St. Charles; three stepdaughters, Barbara Reeves of Spring, Texas, Mari Jo Sutter of Monmouth, Ore., and Janis Merideth of Charleston; and 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

One brother, James Neal, preceded him in death.

Friends may call from 5-8 p.m. today at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston where services will be at I p.m. Monday. His son-in-law, Don Merideth of Charleston, will officiate.

Burial will follow in the Oak Grove Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Rick Morris, Jody Merideth, Jeff Chambliss, Alan Chambliss, Tony Chambliss and Chris Mossengren.

Memorials may be made to Southeast Hospice 760 S. Kingshighway Cape Girardeau, Mo. 63703

OLD RESIDENT OF CAIRO DIED THIS MORNING  

Mrs. Catherine Smith, Mother of E. A. Smith Passed Away.   Mrs. Catherine Frances Smith died this morning at 11 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. A. M. Guion, who resides with her daughter Mrs. George Farrin at 722 Twenty-fifth street.  Mrs. Smith was taken with an attack of grip a week ago Tuesday which developed into bronchitis resulting in her death.  Mrs. Smith who was nearly 79 years old was born in Brantford, Canada and has lived in Cairo since 1859. She was married twice, her first husband being George Smith, after whose death she married Louis Lincoln who is also deceased.  She was the mother of thirteen children, of whom four are living, Mrs. A. M. Guion, Messrs. E. A. Smith and Cyrus Smith of Cairo and William Smith of Denver, Colo.  She also leaves surviving her a sister Mrs. Eliza Workman of Brantford, Canada, a brother Robert Turner of Toronto, Canada and a brother Frank Turner who lives in California.  The average ages of these three is something over 69 years. The funeral will probably be held from the house Sunday afternoon, although definite arrangements have not been made as yet.  

From the Cairo Evening Citizen, Saturday, April 15, 1911  

FUNERAL SUNDAY  

LINCOLN--Died, at 11 a.m. Friday April 14, 1911, after a brief illness, Mrs. Catherine Frances Lincoln, aged 79 years. Funeral services will be held at the residence of her daughter Mrs. Geo. M. Farrin, 722 Twenty-fifth street at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, April 16, Rev. E. A. deRosset of the Church of the Redeemer officiating.  Special train from Fourteenth street at 2:45 p.m.  Interment at Villa Ridge Cemetery.   Submitted by:   Karima Allison

From The Cairo Evening Citizen, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1971

Mrs. Edna McKee

Mrs. Edna McKee, 71, died at 6:25 p.m., Friday at Cape LaCroix
Mansion Nursing Home.
Mrs. McKee was born in Charleston.  
She is survived by her husband, Fred McKee, Thebes; two sons, Vernon
F. McKee, and Leland L. McKee, both of Thebes; one daughter, Mrs. Vera
Dover, Anna; one brother, Otis Light, California; seven grandchildren,
and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were conducted Monday at 2 p.m. at Alexander Free
Will Baptist Church near Olive Branch, with Rev. Billy Heady
officiating, and assisted by Dale Billingsly.
Interment was made in Rosehill Cemetery in Thebes.  Farnsworth
Funeral Home in Tamms was in charge of arrangements.

From The Cairo Evening Citizen, Wednesday, March 1, 1972

Fred McKee

Fred McKee 73, died at 5:50 p.m., Tuesday, after a lengthy illness
at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
He was a retired farmer and a member of the United Methodist Church
of Olive Branch.  He was preceded in death by his wife on October 8,
1971.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Vera Dover of Anna; two sons,
Vernon T. and Leland L., both of Thebes; two sisters, Mrs. Iva Campbell
of Lakeland Fla., and Mrs. Lela Walters of Battle Creek, Mich.; one
brother Clarence McKee of Olive Branch; one half-brother, Floyd Sutton
of Thebes; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Friends may call after 3 p.m., Thursday at the Farnsworth Funeral
Home in Tamms.  The body will be moved at noon Friday to the United
Methodist Church at Olive Branch.
Funeral will be at 2 p.m., Friday, with the Rev. Billy Heady, pastor
of the Assembly of God Church at Olive Branch, assisted by the Rev.
William Rucker, pastor of the United Methodist Church officiating.
Interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery at Thebes.

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This was found in the Cairo newspaper.  

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Fred D. Paff, 52, of Mounds, died at the Veteran's Hospital in Marion, IL, after a prolonged illness.
He leaves one daughter, Mrs. C. F. Hammond of New Albany, Ind., two sons, Ralph and Olen of Olmsted: two grandchildren, and one half-sister of Alton, IL.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed, awaiting the arrival of his daughter.  Ryan Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

From The Cairo Evening Citizen,

June 9, 1939, Friday

W. L. DANIEL W. L. Daniel, age 74, passed away at his home in Mounds Thursday night at 8:30 o'clock after a short illness. Besides his widow, he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. F. E. Dycus, of East St. Louis, Mrs. Verne Moore, of Center Point, Ind., and Mrs. John P. Licos, of Carbondale; three sons, Elmer, of Portageville, Mo., Lawrence and Richard, of Cairo. Two brothers, Charles, of Pulaski, and James, of Mounds; two sisters, Mrs. Emma Bernard, of San Fransisco, and Mrs. Sarah Arrington, of San Francisco, also survive. Mr. Daniel had lived in Mounds for the past fifty years. Funeral services will be held in the Methodist church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with Rev. J. Rue Reid officiating. Interment will be made in Beech Grove cemetery. J. T. Ryan Funeral Service will be in charge.

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From The Cairo Evening Citizen,

Friday, March 27, 1953

PENECIA MAE McCONNELL

Penecia Mae McConnell, age 44 of Mound City, died today at 2:45 a.m. at St. Mary's Hospital after an illness of three months. She was born in Barlow, Ky., and had been a resident of Mound City for 12 years. Mrs. McConnell was a member of the Lake Milligan Baptist Church at Miller City. She is survived by her husband, Leon; seven sons, Harold of Mounds; Andy and George of Mound City; William Eugene of the U. S. Army; Roy Earl, Donald Raymond and Charles Edward at home; two daughters, Shirley Ann and Mary Elizabeth, at home; her father, Ralph Burns, her mother, Della Burns of Mound City; six brothers, one sister and three grandchildren. Friends may call at the Alstat Funeral Home in Mound City after 7 p.m. tonight. > Funeral arrangements are incomplete but will be announced later. Alstat Funeral Home in charge.From The Cairo Evening Citizen, Saturday, March 28, 1953 PENECIA MAE McCONNELL Funeral services for Penecia Mae McConnell, age 44, of Mound City who died Friday at St. Mary's Hospital, will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Baptist Church in Mound City with Rev. Silas Morgan officiating. Interment will be made in Spencer Heights Cemetery in Mounds. Alstat Funeral Home of Mound City in charge of arrangements.

Spencer Heights Cemetery, Mounds, IL

Penecia A. MConnell 07 Jul 1906 - 27 Mar 1953

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