Francis Asbury Fitzpatrick

Brief Life History of Francis Asbury

When Francis Asbury Fitzpatrick was born on 18 December 1854, in Hutton Township, Coles, Illinois, United States, his father, Samuel Iota Fitzpatrick, was 46 and his mother, Deborah Ann Bodkin, was 40. He married Emma Elizabeth Stevens on 31 December 1874, in Edgar, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Lafayette Township, Coles, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Township, Apac, Northern, Uganda in 1925. He died on 16 July 1925, in Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Dodge Grove Cemetery, Mattoon, Coles, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Francis Asbury Fitzpatrick
1854–1925
Emma Elizabeth Stevens
1856–1917
Marriage: 31 December 1874
Ottis Iota Fitzpatrick
1875–1945
Ida Fitzpatrick
about 1876–
Rosa Mary Fitzpatrick
1878–1942
Tina May Fitzpatrick
1885–1930
Lulu M Fitzpatrick
1892–1985

Sources (19)

  • Asbery Fitzpatrick, "United States, Census, 1870"
  • Asbury Fitzpatrick, "Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916-1947"
  • Asbury Fitzpatrick, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1934"

World Events (8)

1861

Historical Boundaries: 1861: Coles, Illinois, United States

1862

British explorer John Hanning Speke becomes the first European to visit Buganda.

1875

Bugandan King Mutesa I allows Christian missionaries to enter his realm.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: Irish Brendan, Kieran, Declan, Ronan, Liam, Seamus, Sinead, Siobhan, Aileen, Bridie, Brigid, Conan.

Irish: occasionally this may be a genuine Anglo-Norman French patronymic meaning ‘son of Patrick ’, but more often it has been adopted as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Giolla Pádraig, ‘son of the servant (i.e. devotee) of (Saint) Patrick’ (see Kilpatrick ).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Place of death

According to Robert Fitzpatrick, Francis died on July 19,1925 of a hemorrage at the Sylvanus Doty Farm located southwest of Charleston Illinois. He lived a number of years there on the farm.

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