Burial in Catholic Cemetery in Omaha

Published in Tribune on 14 February 1914

Over forty years ago we first called upon the late Daniel Fenton and his wife on the old Blackwood homestead in DeSoto three miles from Ft. Calhoun on the bottom road to Blair and our friendship during all those years has been unbroken. Many a pleasant hour have we spent together. The Fentons were Catholics and Dan was a democrat and we were a Methodist and a republican, but we all three had the same feeling of the divine brotherhood of man and we shall surely miss them. They were noble, pioneer people.

Grandma Fenton was born near Cork in Ireland about seventy-seven years ago and came from Boston, Mass., to Nebraska about 1866. After the death of her husband some years ago she spent $700 in placing a large altar in our Ft. Calhoun Catholic church in memory of him.

For a number of years, James Sully, who married their only daughter, has had charge of the home farm and when we last saw her a few months ago she was very happy with her children and grandchildren.

A short service was held at the house, where her daughter lay sick and another at the Ft. Calhoun Catholic church by Father O'Driscoll, which Thomas Kelley of Blair tells was very beautiful. The body was then taken by train to the Catholic cemetery in Omaha to be laid beside the grave of her husband on February 8, 1912. The pallbearers were James Maher of Blair, John Hineline, James Justice and Harry Seltz of DeSoto, James Shinninck of Garryowen and John Daily of School District 29.

Among others present were S. W. Chambers of Blair, Mrs. Herman Jacobson of 2725 Ames Avenue, Omaha, and many others who had known and loved her for years.

W.H. Woods

Note: Since the actual death date was not given, the news article date was used in order to input this record.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~