This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Tabor, McGrady Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zh.2ADE/890.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Tampico Tornado: April 15, 1920 BARNEY McGRADY AN OLD SOLDIER DIES IN CHICAGO Barny McGRADY, An Old Soldier and Well Known Citizen Dies At Hospital in Chicago. Barney McGRADY, an old soldier and one of Tampico's oldest and best known citiaens, died at Alexian Bros. hospital in Chicago last week Wednesday about midnight. Death was due to hardening of the arteries and gall stones. He had been taken there Tuesday of the week previous for treatement and also an operation. At first he responded to the treatemtn and was considerable better on Sunday after which he lapsed into uncounsciousness until the end came. The remains accompanied by the son Ralph who was with him in the city, were brought to Tampico Friday eveing and taken to the late home on north Main street where they reposed until Saturday afternoon when funeral services were held at 2 o'clock, Rev. WILSON, pastor of the Methodist chruch at Prophetstown offering a prayer at the house. Services were held at 2:30 at the Methodist church also conducted by Rev. WILSON, the regular pastor Rev. H.C. BROWN being absent from town on account of sickness. Masons from Tampico and Pr! ophetstown, old soldiers from both the Tampico and Prophetstown posts and members of the Relief Corps attended the funeral in body. Appropriate music was furnished by a quartette consisting of Mesdames CLUM and DENISON and Messrs. MEREDITH and CLUM with Miss Vesta DENISON as accompaniast. There were a number of beautiful floral tributes from the lodges, societies, relatives and friends and the church was filled with relatives and friends of the deceased including may from Prophetstown. The Masonic brethern had charge of the services at the grave and six of the Masons acted as pall bearers. Interment was in the family lot in the Tampico cemetery. Obituary. Barney McGRADY was born in Cattaraugus County, New York Nov. 27, 1845 and died in Chicago April 7, 1920, aged 74 years, 4 months and 10 days. He was 15 years of age when in the fall of 1860, he removed with his parents from New York to this county where he has since resided. During the Civil War, in the fall of 1862, at the age of 17 years, he enlisted in Co. D. 75th Ill. Volunteer infantry, which was assigned to the Army of Tennessee, and the first battle in which he took part was the engagement at Perryville, Kentucky. With his commander he followed HOOD to Nashville, later was in the battles of Murphysboro and Chattanooga, was in the Atlanta campaign, went with SHERMAN to Savannah, Georgia and participated in the battle of Bentonville, North Carolina - which was the last engagement of the war. The regiment then marched through Richmond to Washington, D.C., and from there to Parkersburg, West Virginia, and from that city proceeded by boat to Louisville, Kentucky, whence they came by railroad to Chicago where they were honorably discharged in July, 1865. While Mr. McGRADY was in many battles and had his clothes pierced by bullets, he fortunately was never wounded, though he was ill for six months in the hospital in Nashville. He returned home with a war record of which he was justly proud. In Prophetstown, Sept. 11, 1867, Mr. McGRADY was united in marriage to Miss Celia TABOR, and to this union was born 5 children, namely: Wm. who proceded in death in 1903, Ralph and Bert of Prophetstown, Pearl LANDWEIR of Rock Falls, and Florence SOLLARS of Tampico. After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. McGRADY moved to their farm west of Tampico where they resided 41 years, his remaining years were spent in Tampico. Socially he was one of the early members of Yorktown Lodge A.F. & A.M., also a Royal Arch Mason, Eastern Star, Member of the White Shrine, Modern Woodmen and an honored member of the Grand Army of the Republc. Also a member of the local M.E. Church. Mr. McGRADY was a man who greatly enjoyed the company of others and leaves to mourn his death many friends besides his immediate family, 5 grand children, 1 great grandchild and 3 brothers, Frank and Luther of Kansas and Orton of Rock Falls.