Lake Co., IN Obit



OBITUARY FOR JOHN MELLON EARLY SETTLER OF LAKE COUNTY
OBITUARY OF JOHN MELLON OBITUARY OF JOHN MELLON FROM HOBART, LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA , 
JULY 27, 1910

JOHN MELLON PASSES AWAY................

JOHN MELLON WHO HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND HAD BEEN QUITE FEEBLE SINCE 
LAST FALL BECAME SUDDENLY WORSE LAST MONDAY EVENING AND PASSED AWAY AT 10 O'CLOCK ALTHOUGH HE 
HAD APPEARED SOMEWHAT BETTER THE PAST MONTH AND ATE A HEARTY SUPPER THAT EVENING.
THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN COUNTY DOWN, IRELAND, APRIL 25, 1833 AND CAME TO AMERICA WITH HIS 
PARENTS WHEN THREE YEARS OLD. THE MELLON FAMILY SETTLED NEAR TURKEY CREEK IN AN EARLY DAY 
IN LAKE COUNTY WHERE THE DECEASED HAS RESIDED FOR ABOUT SEVENTY -FOUR YEARS. HE WAS MARRIED 
THREE TIMES. THE THIRD BEING ON MAY 14, 1872 TO THE SURVIVING WIDOW. THEY MOVED TO HOBART 
IN 1883 AND FOR SEVERAL YEARS HE WAS ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN BUSINESS.
BESIDES A WIFE, HE IS SURVIVED BY THREE SONS, GEORGE, FRED AND JOSEPH E. AND BY A SON DANIEL 
AND A DAUGHTER MRS. MAGGIE PETTY, OF CHICAGO, BY A FORMER MARRIAGE.


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