Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-02-23

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i. Ro1s u, ossSt u , men 20
.jAoat lIsuisk ~ Ihisl Iszert bat
influence over. the society IN which they
live. He loved y tell. bat II vas only
on subjects on which be could give or
receive idfokmstioA' HI hated to 70
idle, even in hs conSsrsation. u his
religious belief 10 has Uoiversalist, aod
his personal hsbits ~ chssaetsr, gave
tonc TO the religious sentiments Of bis
mind. He never wished harm 70 any
thing, and bis ideas Of deity revolted st
the thought that God Who was . good,
could b otherwise than meroiful to oil
bis creatures
Patrick Mcclure wss born in Ireland,
and emigrated TO this country when
quite Z young man. He settled in Dav-
export in 1880. He belonged to the
humble, but honest poor Of society be
toiIsd in the stone quarry, in the brick
yard, with the bod, and With tho pillow,
IN building the homes and farms which
others enjoy. He lived lopg enough,
and vas industrious enough to earn and
. own farm of HE own, on which he hes
, left to his family free from debt.
Many Of the fine houses Of Daven-
port, now owned and occupied By ito
wealthiest citizens, can boast Of honest
Pat Mcclure ~ one OF ito builders.
: He was . sturdy, honest yeoman, free
. from the blarDey Of his race; be was :
, strong Democrat ~ his politics, was able
, to read the newspapers, and Informed
, above his class, upon oil public sff.irs
I He died in this town on the goth o.
: January, 1851, aged "a years.
During the last harvest, he was 90
{ customed to rest his pitch-fork on hi,
), thigh, and the constant use Of it, in one
particular spot, bruised and produced =
, lump, which, from want Of care, con.
: nected with old age, and habits, in.
: creased in volume until it endangered
I his life, and when the tumor was removed
BY a surgical operation, he was 90 ex.
{ hausted that he died in sixty hours
;, thereafter.
!, OF Mrs. Ellen Fitzgerald and Mr.
9 Thomas Dotys' lives, have not beer
able to obtain any detail.
It's to be hoped that the monument
. which il placed here tonight, is intend
t ed a. model of one, more permsnen,
e and enduring, which shall be hereafter
J erected in some public place, and on
I which will be finally headed the name,
. Of all the Pioneers Of this county and
D when death shall have removed the last
3 one of us from earth, some kind de-
scendant will place an epitaph on the
D tomb of the last Of the Old Settlcrs.
}, cant permit tn sketch OF the dead
9 OF our Association tor the year 1860, to
Q be closed without referring to Mr.. Joseph
Woodward, who, though not technically
, an Old Settler, was an carly emigran'
, to this county, and one Of ito Oldest in.
0 habitanta. He was born in Burlington
8 New Jersey, on the let of December
!. 1885, and died in this town on the l4th
G Of December, 1860. He was married
0 in his native town in 1911, and removed
: to Ontario, now Wayne county, New
York, in 1917, aud from Ontario county
in 1910, to Cincinnati, Ohio, and thence
j to Kentucky in 1921, and back to Gin
cinnati in 1928. lie emigrated from
: Cincinnati to Davenport in the Spring O
8 1912. and l formed his acquaintance
D soon after he came here. Mr.. Wood
E ward was man OF stern morality, and
: unwaverng integrity. He never shaped
8 his opinions to suit the times. He wat
! a Federalist in politics, and was neve,
| afraid or ashamed at any time or At any
, place, to give bis opinions. In early
lite, he had hard struggle with power.
ty, bnt there was never an hour, that in
. all his business affairs, bis word was mol
: as good Is his bond. He felt the van,
of an education himself, aud no sacrifice
s Of comfort or necessity was 50 great that
: he was not disposed to mako it, that be
+ might educate his children. was on
c pleasant personal relations with the de-
: ceased during all the timc he resided
! here, venerated bis age, but / hon0red
s his integrity more; but few men have
, lived and died in this county who have
D set a more worthy example Of hon
: esty, real manhood and fearless indie
, pendence.
= The large and increasing mortality
G among the Old Settlers during the las'
o year, cannot be attributed to the un
| healthlulness OF the country. The
: death statistics show that the genera
health Of this country has been con-
e stantly improving for the last few years.
. am informed BY Mr. Hall, who per
3 forms the sad duty Of burying most o
the dead in this vicinity, that his record
shows the following facts
The number Of persons who died and
3 we're buried 10 aud around Davenport
, and the neighborhood-
1859 was.... ......-SA
1901 = o01
1893 eSSA
loSV 700
In the year 1860, the increase ovsl
, the previous year, he attributes to the