The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-06
IN MEMORIAM.

IN MEMORIAM.
New ORLEANS, June Sd, 1888.
Receiving in due time the notice OF
your dear mothers death, and trusting
I may receive space in your county
papers, viii speak q few words for the
deceased scion of one of the first families
of the north of Ireland, noted for talent
and high political and theological attain
ments.
Sir James Lynch and wife and family
of six SONS and two daughters emigrated
to America A. D. 1918, parting with his
free-deeded estate, on which eleven gen.
erations of his ancestors had lived and
died.
In the year 1841 Mrs. Hannah A. Nc
Cullough visited her friends in the New
World, and experienced SO many dangers
in her two months voyage across the
ocean as prevented her from attempting
to return. Two years later she was
joined by her husband and family in
America & October 18th, 184S, she re-
moved upon the farm from whence her
funeral occurred May 9th, 1888. They
brought with them from the old world
considerable wealth, and were abundant
ly able and always willing to assist their
less fortunate neighbors. Much wealth
had been bequeathed to her by Mary E.
Lynch, daughter of James Lynch, Jr.,
whose estate was valued after his demise
at 500, 600 NINETY thousand dollars aid
in which she was heavily interested.
The will referred to awarded her 100
acres of valuable land and five hundred
dollars per year during her natural life.
Her family was always designated as the
Casey-Lynch, from the fact that their
uncle was Lord Mayor Of the city Of
Londonderry at the time of their Ge-
parture from Ireland, and after his death
his son succeeded to the Office so long
and honorably held by his father, J.
Casey. When application was made by
Thomas Lynch as administrator over
the estates Of the deceased Catherine and
James Lynch, and also soliciting APP
pointment as guardian of William
Lynch, of Brooklyn, late of Pleasant
Prairie, who was then in an hospital
under treatment for injuries received
from falling through two stories in his
own store, from which injury resulted
loss of memory, the court regarding hin
an own brother" granted those privil-
eyes without security" Thomas
Lynch was a native of Patterson, New
Jersey, and was married to sister of
the deceased. after whose death he Scent
ed to forget all justice to her relatives
and all honor in carrying out the respon-
sibilities he had acted SO strategetically to
obtain. With the assistance of the Hon.
n. B. Morse, of Brooklyn, and other
leading attorneys, supported in Kenosha
county, Wis.,, by O. S. Head, the will
was rendered invalid. The two surviv-
ing sons of Thomas Lynch, lawyers and
brokers, are counted to-day among
Brooklyn millionaires, and ought to find
no inconvenience in paying the modest
judgment of $4,000 awarded by Hon.
J. T. Barnard in favor of Annie D. Nc
Cullough, whom Mrs. Mccullough vest
ed with lawful authority to look for her
long neglected rights. Miss Mccullough
has been for years prominent teacher
in the public schools of Lake and Keno
sha counties, and since her retirement
is fast gaining reputation as writer.
which will place her on the ladder of
fame in that spot where there is always
plenty of room. The three youngest
children of Mr.. and Mrs. John McCul- |
Tough were born upon the farm which
WAS ever the American home of their
parents. The eldest of the three re-
eeived a sunstroke some years since in
Chicago, during which time he has been
cared for in the various institutions pro-
vided for such sufferers, his family al
ways providing his necessaries.
The deceased John Mccullough and
wife were widely known and highly re- |
spected. In the early days, when pow
erty and privation hung over the homes
of the early settlers, their generous and
liberal hospitality was the theme of
every tongue. They brought with them
boxes of all kinds of merchandise and
barrels of all kinds of provisions, enough
to last their family at least three years,
for they reckoned on nothing being pro-
vided in the territory in those days, and
it can be said of them, as in many paral- |
lei cases, some who received the greatest
possible kindne sses in their early lives
became the most unworthy ingrates to
them at the close of their existence. 1t
can be truthfully recorded of our unset
fish deceased neighbors that although
they died surrounded by the comforts of
life in their own home, they were no
weather. than when they settled on
their 100 acres of wild, unbroken land in
Pleasant Prairie, Oct. 18th, 1843.
When civil war traversed our land no
purer sacrifice than made by these
patriotic parents in sending their Oldest
son, sacrifice, if God so willed, on the
altar of his country. It was not love of
gain, for in the days of his enlistment no
tender of bounty was made. 1t was true
patriotism fired their souls and rendered
Che land of liberty dear to them.
It was with tear-stained cheek the
broken.down, orphaned and homeless
veteran rehearsed her deeds of kindness
and humility which charity alone could
have prompted her to perform; the
homeless and needy were never denied
by her shelter under her roof, and
those deeds of christian charity are now
80 many gems adjoining the crown
which after a wellspent life she is called
to wear.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mccullough were as
strictly temperate as Industrious, both
being members and practical followers
of Fir. Matthew's temperance organiza-
ton. Although Mr.. Mccullough was a
liberalminded, well-read man, he never
became the popular man who would
take treat and give one. On the con-
trary, in those early days, when whisky
was so rife, he was considered very un-
popular.
| No willy treachery or cunning knavery
mars his record. He was unsel6sh, gen.
erous, frank, impulsive and honest; and
his wife corroborated. during her life,
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