Rank: Capt
Conflict: Civil War
Side: Confedrate
Type of Unit:
Organization: Inf
Name of Unit: 18th
Alternate Unit Name:
Company:
Died, at his residence at Quarrytown, four miles south of Ste. Genevieve, last Friday evening, September 20th, Mr. John O'Shea, aged fortynine years.
Mr. O'Shea was born in Virginia on June 25th, 1840, and was a stone-cutter by trade. He came to this county about the year of 1870 and was superintendent of the Sandstone Quarry for several years. He served in the army under General Mahone, of Virginia for four years.
Deceased was a good citizen, pleasant neighbor and devoted husband and father. He leaves a wife and four children, three boys and one girl, to mourn the loss of a kind husband and loving father. The family have the sympathy of the whole community in their sad bereavement. The remains were interred in the Catholic Cemetery at Valle Spring on Sunday afternoon, a large concourse of mourning friends and relatives following the body to its last resting place.
Source: stegenevieve.net
Rank: Capt
Conflict: Civil War
Side: Confedrate
Type of Unit:
Organization: Inf
Name of Unit: 18th
Alternate Unit Name:
Company:
Died, at his residence at Quarrytown, four miles south of Ste. Genevieve, last Friday evening, September 20th, Mr. John O'Shea, aged fortynine years.
Mr. O'Shea was born in Virginia on June 25th, 1840, and was a stone-cutter by trade. He came to this county about the year of 1870 and was superintendent of the Sandstone Quarry for several years. He served in the army under General Mahone, of Virginia for four years.
Deceased was a good citizen, pleasant neighbor and devoted husband and father. He leaves a wife and four children, three boys and one girl, to mourn the loss of a kind husband and loving father. The family have the sympathy of the whole community in their sad bereavement. The remains were interred in the Catholic Cemetery at Valle Spring on Sunday afternoon, a large concourse of mourning friends and relatives following the body to its last resting place.
Source: stegenevieve.net
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