The Ottawa Journal

Friends will learn with regret of the death of Mr. Patrick Reardon, who passed peacefully away to meet his God on Friday, October 12th, at the advanced age of seventy years. The funeral took place on Sunday, the 14th, to Osgoode cemetery, the service being conducted by Rev. Father Constantineau.

In hospital since last March suffering from the effects of a fractured hip, received when he fell on the ice. Peter Kavanagh. well-known farmer of Osgoode township, died this morning in his 71st year. Mr. Kavanagh was born in Osgoode township and had farmed there all his life, up to the time of his accident He was unmarried and was the last surviving member of a pioneer family, his father, the late Edward Kavanagh, having been one of the first settlers in the township.

The funeral of Mr. Kavanagh will be held from McEvoy’s funeral Parlors, 471 MacLaren street, on Monday, at 8.15 a.m., for requiem high mass at St. John's Church. Osgoode, at nine o'clock. Interment will take place in the parish cemetery.

A member of one of the pioneer families of Osgoode. and a well-known and highly respected resident of the Ottawa Valley district passed away yesterday in the person of Patrick Dewan, whose death occurred at his home at Osgoode. He was in his 86th year.

Mr. Dewan will be mourned throughout the district and by his friends in the Capital who were numerous, and who held him in the highest esteem. Bora 85 years ago, on the farm adjoining his present home, he was a son of the late Patrick Dewan and Mary McGee. His father came to Canada from Clonmel, Ireland, with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. Dewan. who settled on a farm at Hog's Back.

At the time of his marriage to Miss McGee, Mr. Dewan‘s father moved to Osgoode, settling on a farm. At that time Osgoode was but a forest. It was on this farm, opened by his father, that Mr. Dewan, eldest son was born. He was engaged in farming all his life, and was also a well-known fire insurance agent. A devout member of St. John's parish, Osgoode. Mr. Dewan had the happy faculty of making friends.

Surviving are his widow, the former Ellen Blanchfield: three sons, Edmund Dewan, Ottawa; Bernard Dewan, Osgoode, and William Dewan, living on the homestead; five daughters, Miss Teresa Dewan, Ottawa; Mrs. Patrick McEvoy and Mrs. Thomas McEvoy, Osgoode; Mrs. Ambrose Kelly and Mrs. Earl McGuire, of Osgoode; two sisters. Mrs. William O'Brien and Mrs Thomas Shields, Osgoode. Thirty-six grandchildren also survive.

The funeral will be held from his late residence at Osgoode at 9.30 o'clock Thursday morning to St. John's Church for requiem high mass at 10 o’clock. Interment will be made at the parish cemetery.

Deep regret of many friends was manifest this morning at the funeral of Edward Celestine McEvoy, widely known farmer of Osgoode, who died Saturday at the home of his sister, Miss Catharine McEvoy, 479 Cooper street.
The funeral was held from McEvoy Bros. funeral home, MacLaren street to St. Patrick's Church, where Rev. Father Leo Blanchfleid chanted requiem mass. The body was taken to Notre Dame cemetery, to remain until spring, when interment will be made at Osgoode.
Mr. McEvoy's sister was the chief mourner. A brother, Austin McEvoy, lives at Grand Prairie. Alta.

Solemn tribute was paid Mrs. Philip McEvoy, of Osgoode, at her funeral held this morning at ten o'clock from the residence of her son-in-law, John H. McEwen, of Osgoode, to the parish cemetery. Mass was said in St. John’s Church by a nephew, Father A. Daly, of St. Brigid’s parish, assisted by Father Corkery and Father Tierney in the sanctuary.

There were a large number in the funeral cortege and many spiritual offerings testified to the regard in which Mrs. McEvoy was generally held in the community.

Chief mourners were four sons. Thomas, Augustine, and Raymond, of Osgoode, and James, of Detroit. Mich.; two daughters, Mrs. J. H. McEwen, of Osgoode, and Mrs. John Meegher, South Gloucester: also two brothers, Michael and James Daley, of Osgoode, and three sisters, Mrs. John Kelly, Manotick; Mrs. Thomas Grant, and Mrs. Hugh Cleland, both of Osgoode.

An old and highly-esteemed resident of Osgoode, Ont., died yesterday in the person of Philip McEvoy, at the age of 78 years. Mr. McEvoy had been in failing health for some time. His passing will occasion wide-spread regret among many friends in the district.

Born at Osgoode, Mr. McEvoy was the last surviving member of the family of the late John McEvoy. For many years he had been engaged in farming, but for some time past had been retired. He was a devout member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, and was well-known throughout the parish.

Surviving his death are his widow, formerly Mary Daley; four sons, Thomas, Augustine and Raymond McEvoy, Osgoode, and James McEvoy, Detroit; two daughters. Mrs. J. H. McEwen. Osgoode, and Mrs. John Meagher, South Gloucester Also surviving are 24 grandchildren.

The funeral will be held from his late home at Osgoode on Saturday at 9.15 am., Standard Time, to St. John's Church for requiem high mass at 9.30 o’clock. Interment will be in the parish cemetery.

Following an illness of three months, the death occurred at her home in Osgoode, Ont., of Mrs. Michael Herbert, a life-long and highly esteemed resident of that place, and a sister of John, Edmund, and Timothy Shields, and Mrs. T. Daley, Ottawa, Mrs. Herbert’s death, at the age of 5O years, although not entirely unexpected, will grieve many friends in the Osgoode district.

Born there, she was formerly Emma Shields, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Shields. During her long residence, there, she was a devout member of St. John's Roman Catholic Church, and took a deep and active part in all parochial work.

In addition to her husband, Michael Herbert, and her three brothers, and sister, John, Edmund, and Timothy Shields, and Mrs. T. Daley, in Ottawa, she leaves to mourn, another brother, Patrick Shields, Osgoode; one son, James Herbert and a daughter, Miss Mary Herbert, at home.

The funeral will be held from her late residence In Osgoode. although the date and time have not been set.

Mrs. Mary A. McEvoy, member of one of the pioneer families of Osgoode, and for the past 16 years a resident of Ottawa, died this morning at the home of her sons. A. J. and D. D. McEvoy, well-known funeral directors, 471 MacLaren street, in her 83rd year.
A daughter of the late James Buckels, one of the early settlers of the Osgoode district, Mrs. McEvoy had endeared herself to a very large circle of friends in Osgoode and in Ottawa, and the news of her passing will be received with deep regret. A devout Catholic she was actively associated with parochial affairs and was a member of the Living Rosary of St. Joseph's parish, the League of the Sacred Heart and the Ottawa Sub-division of the Catholic Women's League. Her husband, John J. McEvoy, died eight years ago.
Mrs. McEvoy is survived by six sons, John and Leo McEvoy of Osgoode, James McEvoy of Detroit, Mich., Michael McEvoy of the Government Printing Bureau, Ottawa, and A J. and D. D. McEvoy, funeral directors of the city; and three daughters, Mrs. James Shields of Osgoode, Mrs. J. M. Casey and Mias Mary E. McEvoy both of Ottawa. Also left to mourn her passing are one brother, John Buckels of Osgoode, and 25 grandchildren.
The funeral will be held on Saturday morning at 8.45 o'clock from the residence of her sons, with whom she made her home at 471 MacLaren street, to St. Patrick’s Church for solemn requiem high mass at nine o'clock, and thence to Notre Dame cemetery vault.