Greenwood Colliery, Minooka

Greenwood Colliery, Minooka

Friday, February 10, 2012

Funeral Notice for Patrick Gallagher

Scranton Tribune - May 10, 1900

The funeral of the late Patrick Gallagher took place yesterday morning from his late home on Stafford street at 9:30 o'clock. For some time before the funeral started a very large number of friends and relatives assembled at the home of the deceased to pay their respects to the remains which reposed in a beautiful couch casket in the front parlor of the house surrounded by the sorrowful mother and her five fatherless children, the oldest a girl of 11 years. At 9:15 the casket was closed and the funeral cortege moved to St. Joseph's church where a high mass was celebrated by Rev. W. A. Gorman. Interment was made in Minooka Catholic cemetery. The Young Man's Institute of the South Side, Division No. 9, Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the Knights of Maccabee. of which organizations the deceased was a member, attended in a body. The pallbearers were: W.J. Burke, M.P. Judge, James O'Donnell, William Daniels, Ed Hammer and John Courtney.

Widow: Ellen
Children: Lucy 11, James 10, Patrick 8, Mary 5, Helen 1

Lived on Stafford Street (Cedar Avenue) between Bridgit and Richard Walsh and Owen Kanavy.

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