James W. Kearney

James W. Kearney

• James W. Kearney was born in 1832 in Canada.
• James W. Kearney died on 27 October 1914 in Saskatchewan, Canada, near Maple Creek.
• 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.
• Charles T. Taylor and Maude C. Remington appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1940 in Hampton, Virginia, at 331 Armistead Avenue. Other members of the household included James W. Kearney.

• Last Edited: 26 Dec 2015