Person:Hugh Corrigan (1)

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Hugh Corrigan
b.1846 New York, United States
d.22 Oct 1894 Perry, Oklahoma Territory
Parents and Siblings
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m. Abt 1842
  1. Michael William CorriganAbt 1843 - 1917
  2. Hugh Corrigan1846 - 1894
  3. Rose Ann Corrigan1849 - 1896
  4. John Patrick Corrigan1851 - 1920
  5. William Patrick Corrigan1854 -
  6. Patrick Corrigan1855 - 1872
  7. James W. Corrigan1858 - 1925
  8. Ellen Corrigan1860 - 1936
  9. Joseph Corrigan1862 - 1944
  10. Peter William Corrigan1865 - 1944
Spouse and Children
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m. 1 Nov 1876
  1. James Patrick Corrigan1877 - 1962
  2. Martha Ellen Corrigan1879 - 1957
  3. Luna Rose Corrigan1881 - 1954
  4. Margarette Louise Corrigan1883 - 1963
  5. Margaret L Corrigan1883 - 1963
  6. Lorena Marie Corrigan1885 - 1957
  7. Anna Hazel Corrigan1887 - 1890
  8. Hugh Corrigan1891 - 1975
  9. Maymie George Corrigan1894 - 1978
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Facts and Events
Name Hugh Corrigan
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1846 New York, United States
Marriage 1 Nov 1876 Palo Pinto, Texasto Anna Ophelia Hazelwood
Occupation[5] 1885 Cisco, Eastland, Texas, United Statesin saddle business
Death[2][3] 22 Oct 1894 Perry, Oklahoma Territory
Burial[4] Oct 1894 Perry, Noble, Oklahoma, United States
Reference Number 1184

from an email 24 Apr 2005 from Hugh Corrigan IV: "My ancestor Hugh Corrigan, left the civilized world of Ontario and headed for Texas. He ended up in Palo Pinto County, Texas in the town of Mineral Wells. He married a local girl and went into the saddle making business. The lure of the oil fields tugged at his mind and so he left his wife and kids in the home of her father and he went to Oklahoma. He was elected to the city council of Perry, Oklahoma, a wild boomtown. One night he was murdered and his body thrown on the train tracks. It was hot and they had to bury him before his wife could travel. She decided to leave him there. The community only came up with a sandstone marker which deteriorated very fast. I hired a researcher to see if the grave could be located, but although the old timers remembered the man who was run over by a train, they could not identify the grave location."

References
  1. ↑ Hugh Corrigan (Family History Report H)pdf 6-2005.

    Hugh Coorrigan pdf 6-2005.

  2. ↑ Hugh Corrigan (Family History Report H)pdf 6-2005.

    "Acc. to Palo Pinto records, died in 'railroad accident' in Perry, OK. Terr. on October 22, 1894."

  3. ↑ obituary
    The Orillia Times; 29 November, 1894.

    QUAY 3 Millington, Nov. 24th - Word comes to us of the untimely and shocking death of Mr. Hugh Corrigan, an old resident of Mara, where most of his relatives still reside, but for the past 27 years he has be en ilving in Cisco, Texas (where he acted as county treasurer) and Perry Oil City, having only moved to the latter place within the last 18 months.
    Mr. Corrigan lived about 200 feet east of the Santa Fe railroad, and in crossing the track at night to reach his home, he met an instantaneous and fearfully disfiguring death. The trunk of the body w as found at 6 o'clock in the morning, lying between the two rails, some fifty feet north of the spot where he was struck by the locomotive, dismembered and lifeless. Mr. Corrigan was held in high est eem by his fellow citizens and was manifested by the mayor calling a meeting of the city council (of which he was a member) for the purpose of passing a resolution of respect for their dead colleague . The funeral was conducted with civic honors and was attended to his last resting place by the city council., members of the fire department in uniform, school board and citizens."

  4. ↑ Hugh Corrigan (Family History Report H)pdf 6-2005.

    Buried in Fairview Cemetery, Perry, Indian Territory - grave location not known"

  5. ↑ Hugh Corrigan (Family History Report H)pdf 6-2005.
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