Clohessy, Andrew G 1a

Birth Name Clohessy, Andrew G
Gender male
Age at Death 82 years, 4 months, 25 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth 1864-03-22 Fanningstown, Fedamore, Limerick, Ireland
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Baptism 1864-03-22 Fedamore, Limerick, Ireland
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Immigration 1887
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Census 1900
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Occupation Missouri, USA Pastor
Event Note

Pastor of Sacred Heart, Warrensburg, Missouri between 1889 and 1891
Pastor of St. Joseph's parish, Kansas City, Missouri from about 1891
Pastor of St Mary's, Independence by 1925

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Occupation Kansas City, Missouri, USA Right Reverend Monsignor
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Death 1946-08-16
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Burial Kansas City, Missouri, USA Mount St Mary's Cemetery
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Parents

Relation to main person Name Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Clohessy, Dave
Mother Gleeson, Mary
Sister Clohessy, Mary Anne
Brother Clohessy, John
Sister Clohessy, Bridgie
Brother Clohessy, Patrick
Clohessy, Andrew G
Brother Clohessy, Dave

Narrative

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March 7, 1908

PRIEST LOSES THE BEQUEST.
Katie McGinty Was Very Ill When
She Made Her Will.

It was decided by a jury in Judge H. Slover's division of the circuit court yesterday that Katie McGinty was too ill to know what she was doing when she made her will bequeathing all of her property to the Rev. A. G. Clohessy, pastor of St. Joseph's church, Nineteenth and Harrison streets, and that the will should be set aside and the property given to her blood relations.

Miss McGinty served as housekeeper for Father Clohessy for fourteen consecutive years prior to the illness, which, on January 26, 1907, caused her death. She was paid $2.50 a week, and out of this she saved, in the fourteen years,, $1,128. The money was kept in the Fidelity Trust Company. A few days before her death in St. Margaret's hospital, she called Father Cloheesy in and asked him to accept the money. He refused to accept it. Then she made a will, in his presence, leaving everything to him, after he should expend $25 for her funeral and gravestone and $200 for masses to be said for her soul. The funeral was held, the headstone erected and the masses were said. Then when Father Clohessy probated the will, James McGinty, a brother of the dead woman, brought the action in the circuit court.

Miss McGinty left no property other than the $1,128, excepting her clothing and personal effects. The residue of the estate will be divided among James, Patrick and Dennis McGinty, three brothers in Kansas City, and seven nephews and nieces in St. Louis.

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June 4, 1908

PRIEST ENTITLED TO LEGACY.
Will of Katie McGinty is Held Valid
by a Jury.

At the second trial of the suit of the brothers of Katie McGinty to break her will, by which she gave all of her property to Father Andrew G. Clohessy of St. Joseph's church, the jury last evening found that the will was valid and that the priest is entitled to the money. The verdict in the first trial, three months ago, was in favor of the brothers. The second trial was in Judge E. E. Porterfield's division of the circuit court.

Katie McGinty was employed for fourteen years prior to her death in St. Margaret's hospital in January, 1907, as a domestic in the parish house at 1007 East Nineteenth street. She began service at $2 a week, was advanced to $6, and out of her wages saved $1,161. The day before her death she summoned to her bedside Father Clohessy, for whom she had worked the many years, and asked him to accept her earnings. He refused. Later, while he was absent, she drew up a will, giving it all to him.

The priest had spent all but $200 of the $1,161 before the suit was brought by Jim McGinty and Patrick McGinty and the children of George and Bernard McGinty, Katie's brothers. He devoted $400 to a funeral, $75 for a lot in St. Mary's cemetery, $260 for the gravestone and $200 gave to other priests for the saying of mass for the repose of her soul.

Pedigree

  1. Clohessy, Dave
    1. Gleeson, Mary
      1. Clohessy, Patrick
      2. Clohessy, John
      3. Clohessy, Bridgie
      4. Clohessy, Mary Anne
      5. Clohessy, Dave
      6. Clohessy, Andrew G

Ancestors

Source References

  1. Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Civil Birth Records, Ireland
      • Date: 1864-03-29
      • Page: Andrew Clohessy b1864 - Group Registration ID: 7462480, SR District/Reg Area: Croom
      • Confidence: High
      • Web Page:

        https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-perform-search.jsp?na...

      • Transcript:

        1864 Births Registered in the District of: Croom in the County of: Limerick

        No.: 36
        Date and Place of Birth: Twenty second March 1864 / Fanningstown
        Name (if any): Andrew
        Sex: Male
        Name and Surname and Dwelling Place of Father: David Clohesy / Fanningstown
        Name and Surname and Dwelling Place of Mother: Mary Clohesy formerly Gleeson
        Rank of Profession of Father: John Clohesy / Present at the Birth / Fanningstown
        Signature, Qualification and Residence of Informant: Twenty Ninth March 1864
        When Registered: Twenty Ninth March 1864

  2. National Library of Ireland: Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI
  3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: United States Census 1900-1940
      • Date: 1900-06-09
      • Page: Andrew Clohessy in Missouri - ED) 101, sheet 12A, family 291, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,863.
      • Web Page:

        https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3Z3-MFN

      • Source text:

        TWELFTH CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES
        SCHEDULE No. 1 - POPULATION

        State: Missouri Supervisor's District No.: 5 Sheet No. 12
        County: Jackson Enumeration District No.: 101
        Township or other division of county: Kansas City Name of Institution: X
        Name of incorporated city, town or village, with in the above-named division X Ward of city: 9th

        Enumerated on the 9th day of June, 1900

        LOCATION
        - Street, avenue, road, etc: E19
        - House number (in cities or towns): 1007
        - Number of dwelling house in order of visitation: 209
        - Number of family in order of visitation: 291
        NAME: CLohessy A. G.
        RELATION: Head
        PERSONAL DESCRIPTION
        - Color or race: W
        - Sex: M
        - DATE OF BIRTH
        - Month: Mar
        - Year: 1864
        - Age at last birthday: 35
        - Marital condition: S
        - Age at first marriage:
        - Mother of how many children:
        - Number of those children living:
        NATIVITY
        - Place of birth of this Person: Ireland
        - Place of birth of the FATHER of this person: Ireland
        - Place of birth of the MOTHER of this person: Ireland
        CITIZENSHIP
        - Year of immigration to the United States: 1887
        - Number of years in the United States: 13
        - Naturalization: Pa
        OCCUPATION TRADE PR PROFESSION
        - OCCUPATION: Priest
        - Months not employed: 0
        EDUCATION
        - Attended school (in months):
        - Can read: yes
        - Can write: yes
        - Can speak English: yes
        OWNERSHIP OF HOME
        - Owned or rented: O
        - Owned free or martgaged: F
        - Farm or house: H
        - Numer of farm schedule:

  4. Sacred Heart Catholic Preschool: Sacred Heart Catholic Preschool Parish history
      • Page: Andrew G Clohessy, pastor
      • Web Page:

        https://shcatholic.com/about

      • Source text:

        "While Fr. Andrew G. Clohessy (1889-1891) was pastor, a rectory was built on the east side of the church."

  5. Carrie Westlake Whitney: Kansas City, Missouri; its history and its people 1808-1908, Vol. 1
      • Page: Page 408
      • Web Page:

        https://archive.org/details/kansascitymissou01whit

      • Source text:

        St. John's and St. Joseph's parishes were taken from the territory of
        St. Patrick's parish. Both were founded at the same time. Father James
        Phelan organized St. John's parish in February, 1882; the cornerstone of
        the church was laid Sunday, June 14, 1882. He purchased the pa.storal
        residence in 1892. Father James Kennedy of St. Joseph's said mass in an
        empty hall on Eighteenth street until he completed the basement of the
        church at Nineteenth and Harrison streets. He purchased the location on
        which he erected the parish school. In connection with the school property,
        he bought a lot and house for the Sisters. Father Clohessy became pastor
        in 1889 or 1890. He completed the church, and erected a pastoral residence.

  6. M. A. Solomon / R. J. Claybaugh, Architects, Inc. and Bernd Foerster. A. I. A.: Independence Historical Survey for the Heritage Commision, Independence, Missouri
      • Date: 1975
      • Page: Page 270
      • Web Page:

        https://dnr.mo.gov/shpo/survey/JAAS031-S.pdf

      • Source text:

        III. HISTORICAL INFORMATION
        The grading began on June 15, 1925, under the supervision of H. R. Foley. The actual construction
        was expected to begin in 20 days. ("Memorial Under Way", THE INDEPENDENCE EXAMINER,
        June 15, 1925)
        The cornerstone was laid August 16, 1925, with the simple inscription, " Erected in memory of
        those who gave their today for our tomorrow. " ("In Memory Of War Dead", THE KANSAS CITY
        TIMES, August 17, 1925). The article continued,
        " In the ceremonials of the corner stone laying yesterday political and sectarian
        lines were forgotten, all classes uniting wholeheartedly in the ceremony. On the
        program were ministers of the Protestant, the Roman Catholic, and the Reorganized
        Latter Day Saint faiths. In the closing prayer the Rev. A. G. Clohessy, parish
        priest of St. Mary's (Catholic) church, of Independence , referring to the young
        men who had given their lives in the war, remarked:
        "Jew and Gentile, Protestant and Catholic, they were trained together, they slept
        together, they messed together, they fought side by side, and they were buried together--God
        grant they may all rise together when God shall call them from their
        graves." Ibid.)

  7. Jim Tipton ( Find A Grave Founder ): Find A Grave
      • Page: Andrew G Clohessy d1946 - #34729392
      • Web Page:

        https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34729392

      • Source text:

        Rev Andrew G. Clohessy

        Birth: Mar. 20, 1864
        County Limerick, Ireland
        Death: Aug. 16, 1946
        Kansas City
        Jackson County
        Missouri, USA


        Burial:
        Mount Saint Marys Cemetery
        Kansas City
        Jackson County
        Missouri, USA

        Created by: DeLoss McKnight III
        Record added: Mar 12, 2009
        Find A Grave Memorial# 34729392