The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-07-28
M'TIGHE DEAD
PIONEER OF MANKAT0
Well knoWn Man Passed Away
In St. Paul; Buried Here
Today
From Mondays Daily.

Patrick McTighe, we'll known and
respected old resident of this vi
entity, who has been making his
home with his oninlaw and daugh-
ter, Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Gardner, 481
Inglehart avenue, st. Paul, passed
away in that city Saturday morning
about $50 death coming very sud-
denly as the result of an attack of
heart trouble with which he had been
ailing for seven or eight years past.
Mr.. McTighe arose early Saturday
morning, shaved himself and ate his
breakfast before seven o'clock. He
then walked about two blocks to the
home of his daughter, Mrs. H. A..
Roof, 4S4 Marshall avenue, and Wis
tied there for about thirty minutes.
When he started to rise from his
chair he dropped to the floor, and
died almost instantly, without speak
ing again. He was born in Ireland,
county Galway, seventy-siX years
ago. When a young man he left Ire
land and went to England where he
obtained work for period of about
six months, after which he came to
America. He was only eighteen years
old when he arrived in New York,
and he lived in that city two years,
moving from there to Toledo, Ohio,
where he was employed by the Lake
Shore road for six years. He was
married in Toledo to Miss Bridget
Madigan, sister of Patrick Madigan
of this city, and chortly afterward
came to Mankato and obtained en-
ployment on the Northwestern rail-
OF Monlyotn Tn While
ployed there he purchased 297 acres
of land north and east of the junction,
and lived there until about seven
years ago when he disposed of his
farm and went to st. Paul to live
with his daughter. Mrs. McTighe died
eleven years ago last May.
Six children survive as follows:
Thomas, Mankato; Patrick, Calgary,
Canada; Peter, st. Paul; Mrs. Will
liam Gardner, $40 North Second
street, city; Mrs. w. T. Gardner, St.
Paul; Mrs. H. A. Roof, ST. Paul.
Funeral services were held at nine
O'Clock this morning from st. Johns
Catholic church.
Father BLANCHARD, who is in charge
of St. Johns parish during the absence
of Father Robert Hughes, officiated at
the funeral services, and the pail
bearers were Henry Heintzman, T. R..
Coughlan, Martin Bowe, Frank Keefe,
Martin McHale, and John Mullen.
Mrs. Joseph Krause died at her
home in Breckenridge last Saturday,
death resulting from child birth, and
the news of her death coming as a
sorrowful shock to her relatives and
friends. She was the wife of Joseph
Krause, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
Krause of 724 North Sixth street, this
city, who is now manager of the
Lampert Lumber company's office at
Breckenridge. Her maiden name was
Ruth Matilda Danicourt, and she was
twenty-three years of age. She was
married to Mr.. Krause in Brecken-
ridge just two years next October
The surviving relatives are the
widower, the parents, and four broth
ers, CASTOR, Roney, John, and Edward
Danicourt, all of Breckenridge. Mrs
Peter Krause and daughter, Miss
Clara, left yesterday to be present at
the funeral, which will take place to-
morrow.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. o. Daily and daugh-
ter Marjorie and Mrs. Dailey's sister,
Miss Alice Wilson, teacher of South
ST. Paul, and their aunt, Mrs. Frank
Adams of Denver, all left the Daley
residence today in an automobile for
Owatonna, having received news of
the death of John Wilson of Granite
Falls, uncle of Mrs. Daley and Miss
Wilson.
Mr.. Wilson died yesterday at Owa-
tonna where he had been staying at
the home of his sister, Mrs. Young.
He had been ill for some time, and
had been cared for at a hospital in
Minneapolis prior to coming to Owa-
tonna. He was unmarried and seventy
one years old. p 1A
Arrangements were made to have
a funeral service at Owatonna and to
ship the body this evening to Black
Earth, Wis, where it will be inferred
in the same cemetery where his par
ents lie buried
Mrs. Fred Magin passed away at
the home of her parents, Mr.. and
illness with pulmonary tuberculosis
morning about five o'clock after an