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PASSING 0F Ml Oil CIVIL WARVETERAMMichael Mabon. well known in Oel-weinfor nmuv yew*, answered the last call Saturday afternoon at about 2 o’clock after a few houra illness at ni» boarding place, the Jamea Cannon residence on tbey ]coruw chint Avebae *uid ScOfld strwt Soatta. 1 e last services were held Monday forenoon at 9 o'clock from the Sacred Heart oharcb, Her, F. 8. O Uoonor earing nuw. aow interment was m the Oatnolic cemetery beside hia wife who departed this life sixteenyears ago, , n .Mchaei Mahon was born in Dublin,Ireland, about eighty years ago. lu his youth he came to this country, and when the civil war bioke out he was located in Illinois* auu enlisted in a regiment from that buau,.^ be was a brave soldier, and served early four years, during that time receiving a wound that caused the losei ot an eye. At the end of that conflict he was given an honorable discharge and fjr a number of year* bas received a pension or $24jier month.While in Illinois he was married, and to this union was born a son, Charles who is * resident of flew Hampton. Some yeare after the war be came to Iowa, and for many years he has been' a resdent ot Oelwein.Until incapacitated by advanced age he was employed as a laborer, and since he baB been unable to do manual labor his pension has been hisi means of support. Since the death of his wife in 1892 he has made bis home nearly all the time with Mr. and Mrs. Jamee Cannon. He was on the streets Friday forenoon but was ill that xfternoon.and tbe next forenoon sent for Fr.O Connor**^© administered 10 bimthecom eolation of the church of which he had been a member all his life. He pawed oeacefully away while engaged in hi» devotions. Requle^st in pace.
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Oelwein Register
Oelwein, Iowa, US
Wed, Apr 08, 1908
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