Linking the Irish of Palo Alto Co, IA one record at a time. Obits, census records, military records, newspaper clippings and more! This is where all the Irish are related in one big Family Tree file! http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapaloal/paloalto.htm A search at the Palo Alto Co, IA site for "Carmody" yielded 11 other matches in newspaper abstracts and census records. I am not related. Emmetsburg Democrat Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa Wednesday, July 20, 1921 MRS. THOS. CARMODY DIES AT AGE OF 91 She Came to Palo Alto in 1882. Funeral Was Held Thursday. Last week we made brief mention of the death of Mrs. Ellen Carmody which occurred at her home in Chicago on Monday at 9:55 p.m. She was very ill for twelve weeks. The remains reached Emmetsburg early Wednesday morning and were taken to the home of her son, James Carmody. The funeral was held Thursday forenoon. Services were conducted at the Assumption church. Monsignor P.F. Farrelly celebrating a requiem high mass. Many old neighbors and friends were in attendance. The burial was in the family lot in St. John's cemetery. The pall bearers were M.F. Brennan, E.J. Higgins, J.T. Maguire, John O'Brien, Frank Hand and W.I. Branagan. Ellen Boland was born in the parish of Capamore, county of Limerick, Ireland, March 28, 1830. Her age was 91. She was educated in the Tower Hill National school. She came to the United States in April 1850. June 28, 1852, she was united in marriage at Lyons, New York to Thomas Carmody. Mr. and Mrs. Carmody came to Great Oak township, Palo Alto County in 1882. Mr. Carmody died June 2, 1896. Mrs. Carmody moved to Emmetsburg in 1898. She and her daughter, Miss Nellie, lived in a home in the Third ward. In 1916, they moved to Chicago where they subsequently resided. Mrs. Carmody is survived by two sons and two daughters. They are James Carmody of this city, Mrs. Nellie Neville of St. Louis, Missouri, Miss Nellie Carmody and Thomas Carmody, who is a cashier of the Whittemore State bank. All were present at the funeral. Mrs. Carmody had twenty grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Mrs. Carmody was a woman of deep earnestness and she took an active interest in all matters that she had the privilege and the time to consider. Her career of almost a century was marked by faithful, tireless, conscientious devotion to what she believed to be right and by the strict observance of the precepts of her holy church. Her sympathies, like most of the women of her race, were with the afflicted and downtrodden. She knew well the sad history of the land of her birth and she was anxious to learn of the success of the movement for independence before she would be called upon to answer the final summons. This privilege, however,was denied her. She was a solicitous, provident mother and her zeal for the welfare of the members of her household was equalled only by her tireless efforts to give them the best opportunities that her means could afford. She was warm hearted, friendly and neighborly and she enjoyed through life the good will and the sympathy in her various undertakings of those who were close to her socially and in general community affairs. While she had the loyal, the heartfelt affection of her two sons and daughters, circumstances were such that her youngest daughter, Miss Nellie, was required to give special attention, in her declining years, to her physical and other home comforts. No daughter ever gave more unselfishly years of patient devotion to the many needs of an aged parent, and none will, we are sure, treasure fondly the memory of a sacrifice more nobly or more unselfishly performed. The surviving members of the family, whom we have during our long residence in Emmetsburg counted among our warm personal friends, have our sincere sympathy in the sorrow that has come to them Cathy Joynt Labath Researching in Ireland, Joynt, Brennan, McNally See also some of my other sites: A Little Bit of Ireland http://home.att.net/~labaths/ Palo Alto Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapaloal/paloalto.htm Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~iascott/scott.htm Joynt/Joint Family Chronicles- One Name Study http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cmlabath/joynt.htm Newspaper Abstracts http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/IA/PaloAlto/ http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/IA/Scott/ http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/Ireland/