William Kearney

William Kearney

• Father: James W. Kearney b. 1832, d. 27 October 1914

• William Kearney was born circa 1863 in Minnesota.
• He married Marie Jane Jamison circa 1909.
• The following appeared on 29 October 1914 in The Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times: James W. Kearney, born in 1832 near Montreal, Canada, died the 27th of October, 1914 near Maple creek, Saskatchewan, Canada. He leaves a wife and seven children, five boys and two girls, all grown. Mr. Kearney was well and favorably known to the old timers of the Black Hills and in the earlier days was a member of the Black Hills Pioneer society. Mr. Kearney has had an active, prosperous, and adventurous life. He was with the government in the suppression and punishment of the Indian outbreak, in Minnesota during the war and at the close crossed the plains into Helena, Mont., at which place he did well. Returning to Minnesota, he came to the Black Hills in 1876 and for the first few years prospected and blacksmithed, afterwards proceeding to False Bottom, where he lived until his departure for Canada in 1902. [:CR;]      Mr. Kearney at his death was possessed of a farm of 2,400 acres in Canada worth $50 an acre, about 400 head of stock, principally horses and cattle and about $2,000 in the bank, and a ranch on False Bottom, this county, of 400 acres worth $50 an acre on which he sunk the first artesion well on False Bottom, occupied by his son, William Kearney. Mr. Kearney and Jeanette Kinghorn were married in 1852 in Minnesota and have numerous relatives, friends and acquaintances here in the Black Hills.
• William Kearney and Marie Jane Jamison appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920. Other members of the household included William Albert Kearney, George Kearney and Zella Kearney.
• He was a farmer, according to the 1920 census.
• William Kearney died circa July 1925.
• The following appeared on 27 August 1925 in The Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times: (Hayes & Heffron, Attys) Notice of Application for Letters of Administration
       In the County Court of the County of Lawrence, State of South Dakota.
       In the Matter of the Estate of William Kearney, Deceased.
       Notice is hereby given that Marie J. Kearney has filed with the Clerk of the Court a petition, praying for Letters of Administration of the Estate of William Kearney, deceased, and that Wednesday, the 9th day of September A. D. 1925 at 10 o'clock a. m. of said day, being a day of a regular term of this Court, to-wit: of the September term, 1925 at the Court Room thereof, at the Court House in the said County of Lawrence, has been set for hearing said petition, when and where any person interested may appear and show cause why the said petition should not be granted.
       Dated August 21st, A. D. 1935. R. N. Ogden, Judge of the County Court. Attest: L. P. Jenkins, (SEAL) Clerk.
• Marie Jane Jamison became a widow at his death.
• The following appeared on 30 July 1926 in The Deadwood Daily Pioneer-Times: Notice to Creditors in the County Court of the County of Lawrence, State of South Dakota.
       In the Matter of the Estate of William Kearney, Deceased.
       Notice is hereby given by the undersigned administratix of the estate of William Kearney, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased, to exhibit them with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice, to the said administratrix at the office of Hayes & Heffron, attorneys for said estate, at Deadwood, in the County of Lawrence.
       Dated at Deadwood, South Dakota, July 29th, 1926.
       MArie J. Kearney, Administratrix of the Estate of William Kearney, Deceased. (First publication July 30, 1926) (Hayes & Heffron, Attys.)
• The following appeared on 14 January 1935 in the Lead Daily Call: Mrs. Marie Kearney-Kennedy, mother of William and George Kearney of this city, died at St. John's hospital in Rapid City Saturday afternoon, January 12, at 3 o'clock, according to word received in Lead. She had been in failing health for some time and the immediate cause of her death was heart disease, it was stated. [:CR;] [:TAB;] Born in Topeka, Kansas, August 7, 1893, she was married in Canada in 1909 to William Kearney. They came to the Black Hills in 1910, settling in St. Onge. Three children were born to the union, two sons, William and George, and a daughter, Mrs. Zella Points of White Clay, Neb. Mr. Kearney died in 1923, and on March 17, 1930, Mrs. Kearney became the bride of Mike Kennedy of Hermosa.
       Other survivors in addition to the two sons and a daughter are two grandchildren, Mary Ellen and William John Kearney, and several other relatives.
       It was announced that the body of Mrs. Kennedy would be brought to the home of her son, William Kearney, 613 McClellan street, this afternoon, to remain until the hour of the funeral services Tuesday morning at 9:30 from St. Patrick's church. The body will be interred in Calvary cemetery in South Lead.

• Last Edited: 29 Dec 2015