Thomas Fitzgerald
1797-March 25, 1855
Niles Republican, Saturday, March 31, 1855, page 3, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
DEATH OF THE HON. THOMAS FITZGERALD
It is with heart felt sorrow we announce the death of our fellow citizen, the Hon. Thomas Fitzgerald, who departed this life on Sunday evening last, at 9 o'clock at the age of 58 years. This melancholy event, sudden and unexpected, has cast a gloom over this community such as we seldom witness. The Tuesday previous Dr. Meeker of LaPorte visited him and performed a surgical operation supposed to be of a simple character, but it proved fatal. In relation to it we hear various rumors but we forbear comment.
General Fitzgerald has filled various stations of honor, the duties of which he has always discharged with honor to himself and justice to all. He was a true friend to men, honorable and high-minded and universally tried his earnest best to promote universal good. He has served his country upon the field of battle and in the Senate of the United States, and carried with him to his grave British lead being severely wounded in the battle of Emily's Lane. Whatever may have been his faults, the real man of charity is thrown over there and all who knew him are deeply saddened. Private burial on Wednesday at 11 o'clock, with Masonic honors.
St. Joseph Valley (Indiana) Register, Thursday, April 5, 1855, page 2, col. 1, microfilm Niles District Library
DEATHS: We notice in our recent exchanges, the death of Thomas Fitzgerald of Niles, W.M. Dunham, Mrs. J.E. Brooke, Miss Matilda Fuller, and Edgar Hawley of Plymouth, and Robert Graves of Warsaw.