TS-EMOG-0149

Record Date: 
19 May 2015
Graveyard: 
Emly
Exact wording of epitaph: 

JESUS , MARY,  JOSEPH ,  SAVE  US.

A TRIBUTE OF

PARENTAL AFFECTION BY

 THOMAS  MITCHELL OF  BALLINAHINCH,

IN MEMORY OF  HIS SON,

JAMES  MITCHELL,

ECCLESTICAL  STUDENT OF

ST. PATRICK’S  COLLEGE, THURLES,

DIED AT  THE PREMATURE  AGE  OF 

18  YEARS, DEC  21ST  1869.

 

HE  WAS ADORNED WITH THE SOLID VIRTUE

AND GIFTED WITH HIGH ORDER OF TALENT

SUCH AS TO ELICIT FROM THE PRESIDENT,

THE VERY MEMORABLE EXPRESSION THAT HE

WOULD, HAD HE LIVED TO MATURE AGE,

BE AN HONOUR TO HIS  NATIVE DIOCESE.

 

BUT THOSE THAT WHOM GOD LOVES, DIE YOUNG.

 

MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE, AMEN.

 

Memorial Type: 
Celtic Cross
Hide Grave location
County: 
Tipperary
Latitude: 
52.462365
Longitude: 
-8.3515833333333
Number of people commemorated: 
2
People commemorated: 
Name: 
Thomas
Surname: 
Mitchell
Address: 
Ballinahinch
Name: 
James
Surname: 
Mitchell
Date of birth - year: 
1851
Date of death - day: 
21
Date of death - month: 
December
Date of death - year: 
1869
Age: 
18
Relationship with first person: 
Son
Notes: 

NB. Ballinahinch, a townland in Knocklong  parish, Co. Limerick.

NB.  James Mitchell (1851-1869), died of typhoid fever.

His parents, Thomas Mitchell & Johanna Connery were married in Galbally R.C, Co. Limerick on the 7-2-1842.

James’s  siblings were Michael 1843, Mary 1844, Johanna 1846 & Thomas 1848.

See memorials  0150 , 0151  & 0152.