The Tumut and Adelong Times 26 Jun 1928
DEATH OF MR. JOHN A. MADIGAN There passed away at the Tumut District Hospital on Friday night at 10.30 another native born in the person of Mr John Alawicious [sic] Madigan, after a few days' illness, at the age of 70 years. On Saturday, December 24 last, when returning from evening devotions in the Roman Catholic Church, Tumut, he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Wynyard and Russell-st., by whose car or who was driving it was never known to him or his relatives. He was picked up by others following him who observed his prostrate form in the street. Injuries were inflicted to his thigh that rendered him a cripple to the end, and he received such a shock to his system that he never recovered. He had been a sufferer periodically from asthma and on top of one of these attacks he was seized with bronchitis. Dr. Browne was called in and immediately ordered the patient to hospital. That was on the Tuesday, but although all that was possible was done to afford relief he gradually sank until death claimed him as stated. Deceased was the youngest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Madigan, of the the Oriental Hotel, and only brother of the present owner, Mr. Jas. E. Madigan. Those left to mourn his demise are the brother (and his family), and Mrs Ellen O'Mara, both of Tumut. Three sisters, Mrs. Layiffe, Mrs.O'Connell and Mrs. P. Kiley, predeceased him. The respect in which the subject of this obituary was held was signalled by the long cortege which followed the remains to their last resting place in the Roman Catholic portion of the New Cemetery. Rev. Fr. J. Sharkey, P.P., officiated at the graveside, and Mr. H. W. Baker conducted the funeral arrangements. The bearers were his six nephews, viz: Maurice, Percy and Vincent Madigan, John, Patrick and Louis Kiley (''Darath," Cootamundra). The deceased was of a quiet unobtrusive nature, and had many friends who sympathise with the bereaved in their loss. |