Grundy-Will County IL Archives Obituaries.....McEvilly, Bridget November 7, 1915
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Newspaper Unknown, Nov 1915
Hold Funeral of Minooka Pioneer

Mrs. Bridget McEvilly, 70 Year Resident, Buried Yesterday

Sing Solumn Mass

November, 1915, newspaper unknown

Mrs. Bridget McEvilly was buried in Minooka yesterday.  She was 72 years old 
and one of Will County’s well known pioneer women.

Since her arrival in America at the age of two years from Castle-Bar, Ireland, 
where she was born in 1843, she has made her home on a farm near Minooka.

For seventeen months she had been confined to her home with paralysis.  She 
died Sunday evening, November 7, 1915.

In 1867 she was married to Hugh McEvilly.  During her life neighbors and 
friends for miles around made her home a center of social gatherings.  Her 
wide spread acquaintance and numerous friends were evidenced by the attendants 
at her funeral from Chicago, Joliet, Morris, Minooka and other neighboring 
towns.

Eight children survive her, James, Edward, John and William and four 
daughters, Anna, Katherine, Agnes and Tessie, all of Minooka.  One brother, 
James McEvilly, also lives in Minooka on the farm, where his father first 
settled.  Two sisters Mrs. Annie McEvilly and Miss Helen McEvilly reside in 
Chicago.  Another sister was the late Mrs. Joseph Kavanaugh of Joliet.

The funeral services were held yesterday morning at 10:30 o’clock at St. 
Mary’s Catholic church, Minooka, to St. Mary’s cemetery.

Solemn high mass was celebrated with Rev. Father Joseph McMahon as celebrant.  
He was assisted by Rev. Father P. O’Dwyer and Rev. Father Thomas O’Brien of 
St. Patrick’s church in Joliet.  Rev. H.G. Van Pelt of Sacred Heart church 
delivered the sermon.

The choir was assisted by members of the St. Patrick’s and St. John’s churches 
of Joliet.

Pall bearers were:  John Brannick, J. P. Clennon, John McDonald, Alexander 
Coulehan, Ambrose Brannick and James McDonald.

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