Jeremiah O'Sullivan (1857-1916) (Part 3)



City Square, Charlestown, Massachusetts

Family tradition says that Jeremiah O'Sullivan was employed as a bartender in the City Square area of Charlestown.  In the 1910 census his occupation is listed as bartender and his place of employment as a saloon.  Jeremiah lived in Charlestown from at least 1880 until he moved his family to 29 Newbury Street, Revere, sometime between the birth of his son John in Charlestown in June 1900 and the birth of his daughter, Lauretta, in Revere in April of 1902.  

Boston Globe, January 26, 1916

Jeremiah was arrested on the evening of Tuesday, January 25 in City Square and charged with drunkeness.  The next morning he was taken ill in the City Square Charlestown Police Station.  He was taken to the Relief Hospital where he was pronounced dead. 

On his death certificate the Cause of Death is listed as "Not determined".  This is followed by "oedema of the brain and of the lungs, associated with fracture of the skull sustained under circumstances unknown and fr...... into the overuse of alchohol."

Boston Globe, January 1916

This was signed by Medical Examiner McGrath on Thursday, January 27 and the body would have then been released to the undertaker, Bernard S. Macken.

His funeral was held from his mother's home at 180 Chelsea Street, Charlestown on Saturday, January 29 at 8:30 a.m.  A requiem Mass was celebrated at St Catherine's Church at 9 o'clock.  Burial was the same day at Holy Cross Cemetary in Malden.

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