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JOHN BRADY
Company C.
Submitted by:
Gary Brady
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October 30,
1903, Vinton Eagle, Friday Morning,
Mt.
Auburn
news: “Captain John Brady suffered a stroke
of paralysis last Monday morning, from the effects of which he has not
regained consciousness.”
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November 6,
1903, Vinton Eagle, Friday morning:
“AN OLD SETTLER GONE” Death Removes an Old
Settler of Buchanan County.
Mt.
Auburn News: John Brady died October 28, 1903.
He was born May 52 (says 52), 1825, at Olcott,
New York.
When quite young his father moved to Niogra,
Canada, where he
lived until he was thirteen or fourteen years of age, when he left home
and joined a whaling vessel upon which he made several trips to Alaskan
waters. He afterwards joined the British navy, during which time
he visited India,
China, and
all eastern ports. After serving several
years in the British navy he joined the U.S. Navy and served for several
years after which he joined a vessel engaged in the merchant marine in
which he visited nearly of port of consequence in the world.
He spent over twenty years upon the ocean, being shipwrecked
several times after an absence of over twenty years he returned to
Niogra, remaining there but a short time.
He removed to Illinois
and soon thereafter was married to Mary A. Knox at
Dixon,
March 21, 1859. In 1861 he moved to Buchanan
County, and in 1861 he enlisted
in Independence
and served until honorably discharged on account of the condition of his
eyes. About twenty years ago he was
converted and joined the Free Methodist church, of which church he was a
member at the time of his death. Interment
was at Brandon.”
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November 10, 1903, Vinton Eagle, Tuesday, Mt.
Auburn: “John Brady, who suffered a stroke of paralysis last
week, died last Wednesday, October 28, 1903, at the home of J. F. White.
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November 10, 1902, Vinton Eagle, Tuesday:
Mt.
Auburn.
Hon. Curtwright and wife, of Waterloo,
attended the funeral of their Uncle Capt. John Brady, last Friday.
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MARY ANN (KNOX) BRADY
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November
24, 1900, Vinton Eagle,
Friday, November 30, 1900, Mt.
Auburn:
“At Alma, Neb.,
Saturday, November 24, 1900,
occurred the death of Mrs. Mary Brady, aged 67, after a lingering
illness. Some time ago she and her husband
went to Nebraska
for the benefit of her health but grew rapidly worse until the end came. Her remains were brought here last Monday.
Funeral services were held in the M.E. church at
Brandon
Wednesday, at 10 o’clock,
conducted by the Rev. Carns, of Cedar Rapids.
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December 5, 1900, Conservative, Wednesday, Brandon:
“Mrs. Mary Brady, a former Brandon
resident, who later moved to Mt.
Auburn., died Saturday,
November 23, 1900, at the home of her daughter-in-law in Alma, Nebraska,
where she went with her husband last fall, in hopes that a change of
climate might be beneficial to her health, but during the past few weeks
she failed very rapidly. Mary Ann Knox was
born at Olcott, New York,
August 10, 1833. She was married to John Brady, March 19, 1859.
She became a Christian in 1863 and united with the M.E. church at
Brandon
and was a faithful member at the time of her death.
A husband and three sisters survive to mourn her death. The funeral services were conducted in the M.E. church
at Brandon, Wednesday at
11 o’clock a.m., Rev. Carns of Cedar
Rapids, officiating, and the remains were laid to
rest in the Brandon
cemetery. The bereaved have the sympathy of all in their
affliction.”
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December 6,
1900, Bulletin Journal, Thursday, Brandon:
“Mrs. John Brady, an aged lady, who had lived at
Mt.
Auburn, was buried in the
Brandon
cemetery Wednesday. The funeral services
were conducted by the Rev. Carnes of the Free
Methodist Church. Mrs. Brady was favorably known in
Brandon, and she was for many years a resident of
this place.
She leaves a husband, besides many friends to mourn her death.”
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NOTE: John Brady was born at the very same
town as his future wife, Olcott, Nigara Co., NY. It seems likely he was acquainted with the Knox family
there. If time frames in this obituary are
reasonably correct it would figure that John Brady left home at age
12-14 around1838-39 and spent the next twenty years at sea. He, therefore, will not likely be found on either the
1840 census or the 1850 census in the
U.S. Born in 1825 and moving to
Canada
while “quite young” probably takes the family out of the
U.S.
for the 1830 census as well. The obituary
does not name his parents or mention any siblings. The Knox family is found in Niagara Co., NY, in 1840, by
but 1850 have located in McHenry Co., IL.
For John Brady to have married Mary Ann Knox in
Illinois in 1859 would mean he probably headed
there shortly after returning from sea..
Twenty years at sea works about to returning c 1858-1859.
Did he learn upon his return from many years at sea that his childhood
sweetheart had accompanied her family to McHenry Co., IL, and go in
search of her?
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