Posted on: PaloAlto County Obituaries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ia/PaloAltoObits/502 Surname: Dungan, Woods, Jones, Downs, Higgins, Steil ------------------------- Emmetsburg Democrat Emmetsburg,Palo Alto, Iowa Wednesday, 17 May 1911 FUNERAL HELD THURSDAY James Dungan Was One of the Pioneers of Our County Last week brief mention was made of the death of James Dungan, who passed away at this home in this city Monday night at 11:25. The funeral took place Thursday forenoon. There was a large procession. Services were held in Assumption church. There was a solemn requiem mass. Very Rev. J.J. Smith was celebrant. He was assisted by Father Marks of this city and Father Kelly of Graettinger. The burial was in St. John's cemetery. The pall bearers were Thomas Kirby, Thomas O'Connor, Edward Keenan, P.J. Wagner, Joseph Mulroney, and Henry Selle. Mr. Dungan was born in the parish of Dunboin in the County of East Meath, Ireland, October 12, 1828. He came to America in 1848 and settled in Niagra county, New York, where he lived for four years. In 1852 he moved to Allamakee county, Iowa, locating on a farm. He was married at Wexford, that county, in 1857, to Miss Mary Woods. In 1881 Mr. and Mrs. Dungan sold their farm in Allamakee county and came to Palo Alto. They settled on a farm in Great Oak township. In 1880 they moved to Emmetsburg, subsequently residing in their fine home in the Fourth ward. Ten sons and daughters were born to Mr. and Mrs. Dungan. Two-John and Lizzie-died at early ages. The survivors are Mrs. Dungan, Mrs. W.T. Jones of Oakes, North Dakota, Mrs. Geo. W. Downs and Mrs. Thomas Higgins of Emmetsburg, Mrs. M.F. Steil of Wagoner, Oklahoma, and Julia, Katie, Nellie and James of this city. All were in attendance at the funeral. Mr. Dungan was one of the rugged, fearless, achieving pioneers of our county. He did his own thinking, laid his own plans, and carried out his purposes regardless of what others might think or say about him. He had a strong personality and he had positive convictions on all matters of local or general importance. God gave him a keen, sensitive conscience and he made constant use of it to direct him in the trying and exacting affairs of life. He was a hard worker, a prudent provider, a thoughtful, far-seeing, upright citizen, an affectionate husband and father and a most exemplary and useful member of society. He lived to a ripe old age and he passed away conscious that he had profited by the splendid opportunities that were his for four score years and more and that he had used wisely and with scrupulous consideration the many temporal and other blessings that Providence had bestowed upon him. The sympathy of a wide circle of friends, many of them the acquaintances of 30 years, is extended to the surviving members of the family. Link: Palo Alto County, Iowa USGenWeb Project URL: <http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapaloal/paloalto.htm>