Obituary of William Joseph FITZPATRICK (1912), Allegany County, MD

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OBITUARY, WILLIAM JOSEPH FITZPATRICK, 11-17-1912
A transcript of an obituary from the Cumberland Evening Times, Monday, November 
18, 1912. 

William Joseph Fitzpatrick

Wm. Fitzpatrick, of Pekin, aged about 56 years, died yesterday, at the Allegany 
Hospital in Cumberland, after an illness of several weeks.  He was taken to the 
hospital on Friday for an operation with the hope of prolonging his life.  The 
deceased was a merchant and coal operator and is survived by his wife and 
several grown daughters.

The Evening Times
Cumberland
Tuesday, November 19, 1912
Lonaconing
Bureau of the Evening Times
Lonaconing Md, Nov 19

The funeral of William Fitzpatrick, who died in a hospital at Cumberland last 
Mon, will take place from St. Gabriel's church, Barton, tomorrow at 9 A.M.  
Interment will be made in the Catholic cemetery below in Barton.

William Fitzgerald(sic) will be missed in Pekin.  He was a good man in every 
acceptation of the word.  Honest, industrious and kindly.  He had the esteem of 
all who knew him.  Recently, he spent a great deal of money to re-open abandoned 
coalmines near Pekin.  It was a brave venture, but William Fitzpatrick had 
worked long in the coalmines and he knew how to get out coal.  His venture was 
successful, and had he lived he would have demonstrated that much of the 
abandoned coal which the theorists and the commercial course miners left behind 
them could be mined at a profit.  His death is a loss to this community.
 
The Evening Times, 
Wed, Nov 20, 1912
Bureau of the Evening Times
Lonaconing Md, Nov 20

  The funeral of William Fitzpatrick, of Pekin, took place this morning from St 
Gabriel's Church, Barton.  A requiem mass was sung and interment was made in St 
Gabriel's cemetery.  Gustave Eichhorn, funeral director.  It was the largest 
funeral seen in Pekin for many years.

The friends of the dead man came from Cumberland, Frostburg, Lonaconing, 
Westernport and Piedmont, making a long procession.