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Matthew Sylvester Connors

Birth	:	1 Feb 1868 Lanark, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Death	:	2 May 1940 Manchester, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
Burial	:	Washington Prairie Cemetery, Grand Forks County, USA
Coordinate	:	47.7000008, -97.4083023
Plot	:	Sec 1, Lot 143
Description	:	Funeral services for Matthew S. Connors, 71, were held at the Donald A. Lee Funeral Home on Sunday afternoon, May 5, at 2:30 o'clock. The services were conducted by Father A. R. Portelance of the Catholic Church of Osage City, and burial was made in the Burlingame Cemetery. Mr. Connors, long a resident of Alton, Ill., died in a hospital in St. Louis on Thursday, May 2, to which he had gone for treatment a few weeks before. Funeral rites were held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, in Old Cathedral at Alton with a preliminary service on Friday evening,... Read More	Funeral services for Matthew S. Connors, 71, were held at the Donald A. Lee Funeral Home on Sunday afternoon, May 5, at 2:30 o'clock. The services were conducted by Father A. R. Portelance of the Catholic Church of Osage City, and burial was made in the Burlingame Cemetery. Mr. Connors, long a resident of Alton, Ill., died in a hospital in St. Louis on Thursday, May 2, to which he had gone for treatment a few weeks before. Funeral rites were held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 4, in Old Cathedral at Alton with a preliminary service on Friday evening, when members of the Alton Council of the Knights of Columbus in which Mr. Connors held high rank met to recite the rosary. Although of Irish ancestry, Matthew Sylvester Connors was a native of Scotland, born February 1, 1869 near Glasgow. His parents died in Scotland and when a boy of ten Matthew came to this country with his grandmother who settled in Franklin County, Kansas. There he grew to manhood and when 21 years of age became a brakeman on the Missouri Pacific, working also for the Denver & Rio Grande, and later for a seven year period for the Santa Fe. It was after a short venture in the coal business, with mining interests at Burlingame that Mr. Connors returned to railroading, taking a position as yardmaster for the Chicago & Alton at Roodhouse. His return to railroading had an unfortunate aftermath. Shortly after locating at Roodhouse in 1908, he jumped in to help a yard crew in a tie-up of switch trains, and lost a part of his right leg in a fall under the cars. On recovering a few months later, he secured an artificial leg, and was assigned by the Alton as night yardmaster at Roodhouse. Typical of Connors' sunny outlook on life, well known to acquaintances, was the manner in which he triumphed over the disability of the loss of his leg to carry on the vigorous occupation of a switching foreman. In 1910 Mr. Connors was transferred to the company's yard at Alton where he had since resided. He retired from railroading in 1923; served the city as police judge and justice of the peace for many years. On June 14, 1888 Mr. Connors was united in marriage to Miss Theresa Maude Edwards, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Edwards of this city. There survive his wife; three sons, Leo of New York City, Charles of St. Louis and Thomas Connors of Shipman, Ill.; and two daughters Mrs. C. E. Salter of Washington, MO., and Miss Jane Connors of Alton, Ill.. All came to Burlingame for the burial service with the exception of the eldest son, Leo. Other relatives present were; Mrs. Edith Edwards Sibles of Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Fannie Thurman of Verdun, Kans.; Charles Shields of Topeka; John McFarlane, Mrs. Jane Lavey Donovan and Mrs. Mary Lavey Harrison of Kansas City. In 1935, Mr. and Mrs. Connors returned to Burlingame where for many months they enjoyed meeting old friends and neighbors. Because of his ill health they later returned to their home in Alton. Burlingame, KS Enterprise-Chronicle May 9, 1940 p1

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Matthew Sylvester Connors death on 2 May 1940 in Manchester, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA
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Latitude: 47.7000008
Longitude: -97.4083023

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