Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Moriarty, Jerry 1904
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The Portland Observer, Wednesday, May 11, 1904

Jerry Moriarty died at his home in the east part of Portland township last 
Friday morning, aged 80 years the first of last April.

The subject of this sketch was a native of County Kerry, Ireland, where he was 
born April 1st, 1824, and 22 years later he came to American and settled in 
New York state.  About six years later he located in Grand Rapids and when the 
old Detroit & Milwaukee railroad was built he was boss of a grading gang.  He 
married Mary Callahan of Grand Rapids in 1856, and she and a family of 
children consisting of Michael, John, Mrs. Tony Leik, James and Margaret of 
Portland, and Mrs. P. Long of Fowler, survive him.  Funeral services over his 
remains were conducted from the Catholic church Monday forenoon by Fr. Auer 
and burial made in Portland cemetery.

Mr. Moriarty was one of those big-hearted Irish gentlemen which the Emerald 
Isle has produced and sent to this country, and who have done so much to 
maintain the reputation of the “ould sod” for hospitality and other sterling 
qualities.


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