OBITUARY.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1925, Page 12

OBITUARY.

I OLD COLONIST'S DEATH. I ACKD NIXETY-SEVEX YEARS. ' : Hue of the early settlers of Wah'ku. '. Vr. W. c. di«d recently in Auckland at the advanced age of PT year-. He was born at Kathkale, ireland, living the youngest hi n family of | lliirteen. When about IS years of age he went to America, where he lvarn.-d the building trade. From there h.; went lo Australia and worked at his trade | in (.eeloiii:. Victoria. He came r.trofS" ti> New Zealaiiil in the ship Taliho in j ilie year lh.Vi. In ihe early fifties Mr. j (icaruii Ijouuht a farm at Waiukif. .vhore lie lived until lniiG. wlien he handed it ■ nver to hi- -on. Mr. .lolin T. Gearon. and came to reside in Auckland at F.dinbiirtih Mreet. line of his old Waiuku . neighhoiirs, Ur. Ciles. i- still living at ..Mt. Kden. j Mr. (ipiirnii was of a quiet, retiring 'nature. » htauiuh flood Templar, and a ; firm belinver in r,inyl,> tax. His wife predeciit-ed liim 1- years ago. Five ehil- ! .hen who survive their father are livincr

the Auckland provim-e. MRS. ELLEN McGUIRE. i i line i.i the early pioneers of Aueki lai'H. Mr-. Kllen Mriinire.. Pa-cd away at her laic resilience, 20. Brown Street. in her seventy-eighth year. She c.-inie to New Zealand ill iier in-| fiiliry. and has -pent the whole of her lon,'" life in An.kbmd. and for sixty! years lived in ronsonby. Her husband, (iredeecased her :i"> years ago. She | leave? live Mm> and seven .lanphter-. | lwentv-live j;rHiidehildren. aivl nine ereat-'srandehil.lren. I