Obituary of James McGuire (b.1825 d.1901), Swift County, MN

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A Pioneer Passes Away                          Appleton Press, 4-25-1901

James McGuire, of Hegbert, died of heart failure at his home at seven o'clock   
Monday morning, April 22nd.  His death was unexpected by his family though he   
seemed to realize that the end was near.
He had been ailing but a few days.  Sunday morning he said he had but a short   
time to live and wished to prepare for death.  His children who were not at home   
were at once sent for.
Monday morning the absent ones arrived.  His strength never left him till the   
last.  when his children entered the room he sat up on the bed side and bade   
them a last farwell.  He then told them he was dying, but they could not realize   
it.  He lay back on the bed as he had often done after a hard days labor, closed   
his eyes in death and without a sound or a struggle his great honest soul went   
to its reward.   
the deceased was born in Ireland in 1825.  He came to America when he was twenty   
two years old and working in the New England States and in the South came to   
Minnesota in 1870 and in 1872 settled in Swift County on the place that has   
since been his home.  A wife and six children mourn his loss.