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Michael Tigue obit (continued:)
From 1914 to 1918 he worked at Ross Gear and Tool Works, leaving there in 1918.
Subsequently he was appointed custodian at the Purdue mechanical engineering building,
retiring Feb. 4, 1934 when 87 years old.
Mr. Tigue's memory of early days in Lafayette extended back farther than that of any
other living resident. When he was eight, that was in 1855, he stood with his parents at
Third and Main streets during the hanging of David Stocking, Abram Rice, and Timothy
Driscoll in the courthouse yard. They had been convicted of the murder of Cephas
Fahrenbaugh, and the hanging took place in an enclosure. It was the first and only legal
hanging in this county, according to Mr. Tigue.
Mr. Tigue's mother, Nancy Tigue, received nation-wide attention when she observed
her 107th birthday. Born in 1799 and dying in 1906, she had lived in three centuries--the
eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth.
FUNERAL AT ST. ANN'S
Mr. Tigue was a member of St. Ann's Catholic church and it's Holy Name society.
His wife, Bridget Dolan Tigue, died in 1933. The only survivor is a niece, Miss Edna
Brady, of West Lafayette, a member of the staff of Purdue university.
The funeral will be conducted Wednesday morning at 9 at St. Ann's church; burial at
St. Mary's cemetery. The remains may be viewed at the Vianco funeral home after 2
o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Lafayette Journal & Courier June 23, 1942
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