Grundy County IL Archives Obituaries.....Brannick, Michael 1903
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Phoenix Advertiser Minooka News, Feb 19, 1903
Death of Michael Brannick

Minooka lost one of her oldest and best citizens last Thursday morning, Feb. 
12, 1903, when Michael Brannick answered the death summons after a life of 
nearly eighty years. His health and mental powers were excellent until about 
three years ago when the infirmities of age began to manifest themselves and 
the splendid faculties declined as all mortal powers some time must. Mr. 
Brannick was born in County Mayo, Ireland, in 1823 and came to America when a 
young man. He was on a farm near Lisbon for a few years until the gold fever 
of California cast its charmed spell over the whole country when he became an 
argonaut to the far land. Fortune smiled rather generously on Erin's hardy son 
and he returned here to claim the hand of Miss Mary Sterling in marriage. Mr. 
Brannick purchased a farm south of town in 1851 and there he lived from that 
time until about fifteen years ago when he came to spend his last years in the 
rest which he had so well earned. He was a man of generous nature, of good 
impulse and benevolent deeds, honest, industrious and successful. Many friends 
besides the family mourn his decline and departure. Mr. Brannick's death was 
the first in his family. He leaves a widow, six sons and four daughters, John, 
Ambrose, William, Henry, Katherine and Margaret Brannick, and Mrs. William 
Coulehan of Minooka; Michael and Thomas of Cripple Creek, Col. and Mrs. Thomas 
Brady of Joliet. The funeral took place Saturday morning at 10 o'clock and the 
obsequies conducted by Rev. Father McMahon, were very largely attended by the 
citizens in general. The pall bearers were Messrs. P. H. Priscoe, William 
Coulehan, Thomas Comerford, John McDonald, James McEvilly, and J. P. Clennon. 
The interment was in Dresden Cemetery. 

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