Morris Ahern died at his home eight miles north of this city on Thursday, Aug. 27, 1903, of paralysis caused from injuries received a week ago by being thrown from a wagon in a runaway.
Deceased was about 65 years of age and was a native of Ireland. He came here from Glenco, Minn., fifteen years ago, was married in York state in 1846 to Miss Bridgett O'Keefe. A wife and seven children survive him - Mrs. Mary Basil of Dayton, Mrs. Ethel Baker of Lewiston, and Lawrence, Eugene, John and Morris Ahern and Willie, a three-year-old son of second wife. The funeral occurred Saturday conducted by Rev. T. H. Fertig and burial was in Spanjer cemetery in the afternoon.
Thank you Sue Gardner for this transcription.
**His second wife was Hanna Christina Johnson Freed (See Victor Freed tombstone in Ritzville Memorial Cemetery)
Morris Ahern died at his home eight miles north of this city on Thursday, Aug. 27, 1903, of paralysis caused from injuries received a week ago by being thrown from a wagon in a runaway.
Deceased was about 65 years of age and was a native of Ireland. He came here from Glenco, Minn., fifteen years ago, was married in York state in 1846 to Miss Bridgett O'Keefe. A wife and seven children survive him - Mrs. Mary Basil of Dayton, Mrs. Ethel Baker of Lewiston, and Lawrence, Eugene, John and Morris Ahern and Willie, a three-year-old son of second wife. The funeral occurred Saturday conducted by Rev. T. H. Fertig and burial was in Spanjer cemetery in the afternoon.
Thank you Sue Gardner for this transcription.
**His second wife was Hanna Christina Johnson Freed (See Victor Freed tombstone in Ritzville Memorial Cemetery)
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