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1898 Thomas Heraty's Diary
| Date | Day | Entry |
| Jan. 10 | Mon | The Rainer girl burned to death at Johnny Devine's by clothes catching fire under soap kettle in the yard. She lived 23 hours. |
| Jan. 11 | Tue | Received invitation to attend John Lindsay's wedding anniversary to be held January 14th at Manley's. |
| Jan. 29 | Sat | Heard this evening of the illness of Emma Naughton from pneumonia. Was attended by priest and doctor. |
| Feb. 9 | Wed | Heard of the death of Mrs. Pat Dwyre. She died suddenly, though sick with cancer for some time. |
| Feb. 14 | Mon | Heard today of the death of Mrs. Martin Devine this evening. She died at 8 p.m. |
| Feb. 15 | Tue | Mrs. Martin Devine buried today in Osceola. Funeral held at Mitchell church. |
| Feb. 17 | Thur | Auction at George Alcox' today. |
| Feb. 22 | Tue | Ignatius Donnelly and Miss Marion Hanson of Minnesota were married. |
| Feb. 25 | Fri | Last day of Parnell school by Miss Lamb. |
| March 3 | Thur | Young Tommy Manley buried today at Mitchell. |
| March 6 | Sun | Heard today of the death of Mrs. Reilly at Seattle, Washington. She was a daughter of Jas. Mangan of Bear Lake. |
| March 12 | Sun | Registered letter to New York for Mrs. Bat Donohue with $4.00 inclosed. |
| March 21 | Mon | The Assyrian peddlar here all night. |
| March 22 | Tue | Jas. Mangan auction at Bear Lake today. Girl baby born to John Gaynor's today. |
| March 24 | Thur | Auction at McBride's. Tim Clifford had Bart arrested for assault. |
| April 5 | Tue | Town Meeting. Elected: Chairman, Mangan; Sups., Slattery and Bilgo; Treasurer, Burke; Clerk, Rooney; Assessor, Reddington. |
| April 6 | Wed | Johnny Bowen's barn, granary and horse stables and grain burned down. The fire caught from Brogan and Heraty engine that was there sawing wood. He lost all his hay, grain, binder, seeds, cutter and some harnesses. |
| April 8 | Fri | Old Pat Fitzgerald of Osceola died. |
| April 9 | Sat | Old Mrs. Prindeville died tonight. |
| April 10 | Sun | Eloquent sermon preached by Deacon Phelim Hughes. |
| April 11 | Mon | Mrs. Joe Tracy buried at Mt. Pleasant. |
| April 16 | Sat | Willie Connell died at 6:05 a.m. John Connell and Dan went to Plymouth for coffin. Old Mrs. Harvey died yesterday. Buried at Mt. Pleasant on April 12, 1898, ae. 86. (Either the date is wrong for the entry or for the burial - K.R.) |
| April 18 | Mon | Old Mrs. Graham. Dan's and Ed's mother, buried at Osceola. |
| April 30 | Sat | Old Man Fee died and Mrs. Cox of Osceola. |
| May 3 | Tue | Old Pat Cain of Russell buried today. |
| May 4 | Wed | Heard of the death of Mrs. John Malloy, to be buried at Mitchell on Friday. |
| May 11 | Wed | Mrs. Peter Hand buried in cemetery at Plymouth. |
| May 30 | Mon | Heard at Plymouth today of Jerry Murphy being cut and slashed with a knife at Sheboygan last night, and not expected to live. |
| May 31 | Tue | Miss Nolan called to see her school. |
| June 4 | Sat | Johnny Bowen had a barn raising. |
| June 16 | Thur | Dance at Bowen's barn tonight. |
| June 19 | Sun | Johnny Gibbons died at 3 a.m. at house of Peter Murphy of consumption in his 40th year. Phelim Hughes ordained today at Milwaukee. |
| June 20 | Mon | Went to Osceola to see Father Downs about saying mass for John Gibbons and to Jim O'Brien's about the well which caved in with a terrible crack. |
| July 3 | Sun | Heard of the sudden death of one of John Murray's boys. |
| July 12 | Tue | A Mr. Ryan of Sheboygan and Mary Gannon were married today. |
| July 19 | Tue | 98 degrees at noon. |
| Aug. 20 | Sat | Heard this evening of the burning of Florence Lindsay by the dropping, breaking, and igniting of a kerosene lamp. |
| Aug. 28 | Sun | Mrs. Coughlin, George Lindsay's sister from New York, passed through here on her way to see the Beaucage's. |
| Aug. 31 | Wed | After breakfast, I went over to see Maggy Alberts. Saw there, Mrs. Coughlin and her son and Mrs. Lena Alberts of Chicago. |
| Sept. 10 | Sat | First killing frost of the season. |
| Sept. 15 | Thur | John Devine sold his factory to Herman Ninnemann, $660.00. |
| Sept. 17 | Sat | Florence Lindsay died. |
| Sept. 28 | Wed | The Johnny Malloy vs. John Dowling assault and battery at Plymouth. |
| Sept. 30 | Fri | Father Hugh McMahon died today at Oconomowoc. |
| Oct. 4 | Tue | Frank Beaucage was killed this p.m. by falling from a load of bags on his wagon, east of O'Brien's, Osceola. 55 years old, born in lower Canada. |
| Nov. 26 | Sat | Mrs. Michael Mugan died. |
| Nov. 29 | Tue | Requiem High Mass for Mrs. Michael Mugan by Reverend Charles Mugan and Reverend Father Lyons of Chicago and Father Miller of Russell. |
| Dec. 28 | Wed | Willie Leonard died at ______. |
| Dec. 30 | Fri | Old man Falvey buried at Osceola. |
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