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Note: !BIRTH: ABT 1797 New York City, New York, New York (calculated from newspaper account of her death below). However, 1870 census indicates 1798; 1850 census indicates 1804. !PARENTS' FAMILY: Complier vaguely remembers hearing a long time past that they are buried in Trinity Church Cemetery, Wall Street and Broadway, New York. This is being checked out. A Eleazar Little, age 65 yrs, 11 mos was buried there Sept 15, 1817; a good possibility as the father of Eliza. !MARRIAGE: MRIN19 to James LYNCH RIN30 probably in New York City before 1820, year of birth of eldest son. !DEATH and BURIAL: 17 MAR 1888 Chicago, Cook, Illinois, age 91 years. Burial: 22 MAR 1888 St. Mary Cem., Syracuse, Ononda- ga, New York RESIDENCES: New York City; Syracuse,Onondaga,New York; Chica- go,Cook,Illinois !CENSUS(1): 20 July 1850 Page 26 1st Ward Onondaga Syracuse James LYNCH 60 Ireland RIN30 Elisa 46 New York RIN31 Michael 30 Mechanic " RIN853 John 25 " " RIN137 George 23 " " RIN852 Adelia 21 " RIN136 James 18 " RIN138 Thomas 15 " RIN851 Louisa 13 " RIN15 ****************************************************************** !CENSUS(2): 1870 PG 54-55 332 413 LYNCH, JAMES 86 MW RETIRED SALE MAKER 125,000 REAL ESTATE 125,000 PERSONAL IRELAND LYNCH, ELIZA 72 FW KEEPING HOUSE NEW YORK LYNCH, JAMES 37 MW CLERK IN STORE NEW YORK !SOURCE(1): Same as those of her husband, James LYNCH RIN30 - see notes "A30" !REMARKS: The following were copied from newspaper clippings in a scrapbook belonging to Florence Marie PENDERGAST RIN 7, grandmother of the compiler and granddaughter of Eliza A. LITTLE. (Scrapbook is in RIN 7 file folder of the compiler): MRS. JAMES LYNCH Death of the Oldest Roman Catholic in this County Word was received here yesterday, annoucing the death of Mrs. James Lynch, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E. D. MURRAY, in Chicago. The sad event occurred on Saturday evening. Deceased was visiting her daugh- ter at the time. Mrs. Lynch was the oldest Catholic in Onondaga county. She was born in New York city ninety- one years ago, and came to Syracuse in 1825. At that time there was not a Catholic church in this vicinity. Mass was celebrated only once a month by a visiting missionary. Mrs. Lynch was an ardent member of that faith, and most prominent on account of her charity and zeal. The monthly religious service were held at her house at which gathered the handful of Catholics then living here. Her husband, James Lynch, died in 1871. He was one of the most prominent business men in the city and identified especially with the salt industry in the First Ward. Mrs. Lynch was a lady of many noble qualities which attracted to her a wide circle of friends. She leaves four children -Mrs. E. D. MURRAY of Chicago, Mrs. Charles H. PENDERGAST of New York city, John O.S. LYNCH of this city and James LYNCH of Oneida. The remains will be brought to this city for interment. The funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. (Note: no date on any of the clippings. However, a hand-written note says: Darling Mother died in Chica- go March 17th 1888 was interred in St. Mary Cemetery Syracuse NY March 22.) (Two other clippings only added information that brief funeral service was conducted by Rev. Dr. O'Hara.) !CITATION: From the book PIONEER IRISH OF ONONDAGA, page 37 -> 41: James Lynch was the son of Cornelius and Joanna Dooling Lynch of Tralee, County Kery, Ireland. Originally from the city of Dublin, Cornelius Lynch married and setttled among the relatives of his wife in Kerry. Their sons, James and John, both came to Onondaga County. James had obtained a clerkship in Cork with relatives engaged in shipping dairy products to Eng- land. Some good fortune brought him a similar office in the United States Navy during the War of 1812, and he came to America. During his service he met many men from the city of New York among whom were two brothers named Little serving in the navy. These young men invited Lynch to their home and there he fell in love with their sister, Eliza, then sixteen years of age. She was of Knickerbocker stock, her mother a daughter of the Von Mullers. Small and curly-headed, vivacious yet haughty, she surrendered to the tall, handsome, bold Irishman whom her brothers called their friend. She was of Knickerbocker stock, her mother a daughter of the Von Mullers. Small and curly-headed, vivacious yet haughty, she surrendered to the tall, handsome, bold Irishman whom her brothers called their friend. James Lynch was a gentleman of distinguished bearing, exquisite taste in dress, and of polished manners, upright in character and of sterling worth. His little wife forsook for him the gay life of New York and came up into the wilderness to Utica, where the Devereaux family, true to their reputation made them welcome. There in the course of time James Lynch and Thomas McCarthy met. Lynch with his wife and children came to Salina in the year 1824, opened a store, and engaged in the salt industry. McCarthy and Lynch worked together for many years, in business, in politics, and in reli- gion. They were both in the movement which led to the establishment of the first Catholic church in this County. Both were eminently successful in business, accumulating a fortune. Socially they were in the foremost rank and exercised a hospitality of which this generation knows not the mode. Both held office and took part in every work of good citizens and won for themselves a place in the history of their time. Eliza Little Lynch brought with her to the settlement at Salina the charm and grace of the metropolis and is still remembered for her dainty loveliness. The first piano of this region was hers, and the salt boilers often gathered round her gate to beg the favor of her musical art. Her home rivalled the McCarthy home in its reception of distinguished guests. It became a chapel at need and the piano served for an altar. So was laid in Onondaga County the foundation of the Lynch family, which grew and spread into all the avenues of work and life. The children of James anmd Eliza Little Lynch are: Mary, who married Edward Murray of Pompey; Lucy who married John White of Binghamton; Michael, who married Helen Barry of Oswego; John O'Sullivan, who married Eleanor Denman, Ohio; George, who went to California; James, Captain 149th N.Y.Vol. Inf.; Thomas, unmarried; Louise who married Charles Pendergast, a ship owner of Baltimore, and Adelaide, who married James Pendergast of Baltimore, a ship owner and a brother of Charles. James Lynch, the third, son of James Lynch and grandson of James Lynch, served in the war with Spain. ANOMALY(1): On page 76 of the scrapbook are three clippings concerning the death of Mrs. James Lynch at the Chicago home of her daughter, Mrs. E. D. MURRAY. Since daughter Adelaide LYNCH-136 was married to James F. PENDERGAST-131, Eliza LYNCH (junior)-135 to Jerome Aloysius PENDERGAST-132, and Louise L. LYNCH-15 to Charles Henry PENDERGAST-14, another daughter born probably after the 1850 census became Mrs. E. D. MURRAY. Later research revealed that she was daughter, Mary, probably married before the 1850 census accounting for her name not being in that census list.
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