notes from Monday's Streator Daily Times-Press ...death of Mrs. Julia Corcoran, which occurred very suddenly at her home, 311 W. Bridge st, Saturday afternoon at 3:20 came as a shock.. ... Mrs. Corcoran was the daughter of Thomas and Mary Breen, and was born at Hopkinton, Mass., Sept. 23, 1857. The family later moved to Penn., and was 13 when she was brought to Hardscrabble by her grandmother Purcell. The family came two years later.... Her marriage with James Corcoran occurred here in 1880, they became the parents of five children,, two of whom, preceded their mother in death in infancy. Mr. Corcoran died Jan. 3, 1930. Left are two sons, Frank and Louis of Chicago and a daughter, Mary at home. . one sister, Mrs. Mary McCloskey and a brother, Michael Breen both of Streator. two brothers, Thomas and John Breen, and three sisters, [email protected] wrote: > > Hi all, I am interested in locating an obit notice for my gr-gr grandfather, > Thomas > Breen. He was born in Ireland in 1815 and died in Streator July 10, 1880. I > am > also interested in obit notices for his children, Julia Breen Corcoran, D. > 4/30/1938, and Michael P. Breen d. 12/24/1938. If anyone on the list in Streator > can provide > these I would be grateful. Thanks so much Kate Kochman > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237