Walsh, Richard

1881 - 1917  (35 years)    Has 2 ancestors and 2 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Walsh, Richard
  Born	14 Oct 1881	Woodville, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  Gender	Male
  1910 Census	1910	Stockbridge, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  Richard J Walsh28 Mary Walsh28
  Obituary	30 Jun 1917
  Chilton Times
  RICHARD WALSH This community has rarely been shocked to a greater degree than it was on Saturday when the report was circulated that Richard Walsh, Jr., of the town of Stockbridge had been killed by lightning on his farm during an electrical storm, shortly after six o'clock that morning. Mr. Walsh had left the house for the pasture to drive in the cows preparatory to milking and had reached a point about three hundred feet east of his house when he was struck by a bolt of lightning and instantly killed. At the time Simon Wettstein and his hired man were milking in the Wettstein barn across the road from the Walsh place and the sharp flash of lightning led then to believe that it has struck close by. They went out to see if any of their buildings had been struck and noticed a commotion among the cows across the road in Mr. Walsh's pasture. They hastened over to investigate the case and saw smoke issuing from the field nearby. As they approached the spot they found Mr. Walsh's lifeless body lying on the ground and the smoke which they saw was from the burning cloths which he wore. They extinguished the fire and examined the body for signs of life, finding that Mr. Walsh had been struck on the head by the bolt, which tore his hat to shreds and the rain coat which he wore was ripped from his body and lay ten feet from the spot where he fell. Both shoes were torn from his feet and one of them was thrown a distance of twenty feet. A watch on the person of the dead man was burned out, the hands on the same pointing to the hour of 6:10, which beyond doubt was the same time the bolt struck him. The grass nearby by was burned for twenty feet on each side of the body. Mr. Wettstein hastened to the Walsh home and broke the sad news to Mrs. Walsh that her husband bad been badly injured. A physician was called from Stockbridge in the hopes that he might be revived but the hope was vain for the life was extinct and nothing could be done. A sad co-incidence was the fact that his death occurred on his wedding anniversary. Richard Walsh was a son of the late Richard Walsh and was born near Forest Junction in the town of Woodville, Oct. 14, 1881. When he was two years old his parents moved to the town of Stockbridge and purchased a farm on the Bennett Road, and in that neighborhood he resided until death claimed him. After completing common schools he remained with his parents and assisted in conducting the homestead farm until he was married on June 23, 1909 to Miss Mary Dineen of Cedarburg, when he moved onto a farm adjacent to the homestead. He was energetic and ambitious, with a progressive mind, and was prospering nicely in the farm work when the deplorable accident happened. Always bright and cheerful, he drew about him friends wherever he went in the neighborhood in which he resided he was a general favorite with young and old. He was public spirited, deeply interested in civic affairs and particularly so in educational matters. He served on the board of education for several years displaying his usual efficiency in the work and last spring was elected town clerk of the town of Stockbridge. He is survived by his widow and six children, four girls and two boys, the youngest a babe of two weeks. He also leaves his mother, Mrs. Richard Walsh, Sr., of Stockbridge and five sisters, Miss Evelyn Walsh and Mrs. John Campbell of Stockbridge, Mrs. Andrew Flatley of Forest Junction, Mrs. F. E. Detling and Miss Anastasia Walsh of Los Angeles, California, and three brothers, James and Edward A. of Milwaukee and Eugene Walsh of Appleton, all of whom were present at the funeral, with the exception of the two at Los Angeles, who were unable to get here. (cut off) Chilton Times June 30, 1917
  Died	30 Jun 1917	Stockbridge, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
  Person ID	I179020	1FamilyTree
  Last Modified	12 Oct 2015

  
  

  Father	Walsh, Richard,   b. Abt 1835, , , , Ireland ,   d. 15 Jul 1915, Stockbridge, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA  (Age ~ 80 years)
  Mother	Milton, Bridget,   b. 10 May 1850, Sligo, Dunbarten County, Ireland ,   d. 22 Sep 1932, Stockbridge, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F62307	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Dineen, Mary,   b. 6 Nov 1881,   d. 16 Mar 1963, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin, USA  (Age 81 years)
  Married	23 Jun 1909
  Children	1. Walsh, Richard,   b. Abt 1916,   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Walsh, John
  Last Modified	27 Jun 2014
  Family ID	F55410	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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