AGED DAUGHTER OF PIONEER CAIROITE DIES AT DUPO, ILL.
Telegrams received yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Baird and others
announced the death at Dupo Saturday of Mrs. Kate Hamilton, 88 years old,
for many years a resident of Cairo.
The body will be taken to Mounds
for interment in Beech Grove Cemetery at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon, and
relatives and friends will go to Mounds at 2 o'clock on the interurban car
to attend the funeral.
Arrangements had been made for an earlier
services but announcement was made last night by Undertaker G. A. James, who
will direct the funeral of the change in time. Services will be conducted at
St. Raphael's Church at Mounds by Fr. Feeney.
Mrs. Hamilton was a
daughter of Bryan Shaughnessy. She was two years old when he came here in
1838 as one of the contractors for the first Illinois Central embankment
between Cairo and Mounds. He remained in Cairo and became one of the most
prominent citizens, being connected with many improvement projects.
Her husband, John Hamilton, was in the mercantile business her and later
erected the building at 602 Commercial Ave., where he opened a furniture and
carpet store in the '80's. He was fatally injured in a fall at the store and
died a few days later. Mrs. Hamilton left here soon afterward and lived in
Cape Girardeau for a time but returned to Cairo and made her home her until
about seven years ago when she went to live with her son, John W. Hamilton,
a railroad man running between East St. Louis and Dupo.
Her son is
her only near relative but she has several others living here among them
Edward and Jesse Shaughnessy, sons of her brother, Mr. Baird and Mrs. E. A.
Carkuff.
Contributor's Notes:
1) Her husband had to have opened his store, Hamilton Bros. Furniture in the 1860's as he died in 1869.
2) Her father, Bryan Shannessy, was a postmaster twice and a circuit court judge as well as police magistrate.
3) I have also been told by my late
Grandmother and her sister that he [her father?] owned and ran a boarding house or hotel
around the time of the Civil War.
Contributed by Vicky Parrin
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