MCDONALD, DANIEL
Pioneer Passes Away
Oct.2, 1914

Last Friday evening at eleven o'clock occurred the death of Daniel McDonald, a 
pioneer of Dixon County and Northeast Nebraska. Mr. McDonald came to Dixon 
County in 1873 and located on a farm three miles west of Martinsburg and has 
lived in the county since. He was born in Ireland over eighty-five years ago, but 
went to Scotland when a boy. In early manhood, he came to the United States, 
landing at New Orleans, where he lived a few years and in the early fifties he 
located in Galena, Illinois. In 1858 he was united in marriage to Miss Ellen 
McMahon of which union four children were born and survive him. B. J. McDonald 
of Emerson, J. E. McDonald of San Antonio, Texas, Mrs. Dan Donlin and 
Mrs. Chas. Eyler of Ponca.

He is also survived by his life mate, who is in good health at the age of eighty-two. 
The funeral services were conducted from the Catholic Church in Ponca, Tuesday 
morning and the remains laid to rest in the South Creek cemetery near Ponca. The 
Ponca Journal Leader says in part: The funeral services were held in St. Joseph's 
church in Ponca this (Tuesday) morning, Oct.6, Rev. Father O'Toole of Newcastle 
celebrated the requiem high mass. The church was crowded with relatives and 
friends of the deceased , who had assembled to pay their last respects the the 
departed pioneer and citizen.

Father O'Toole delivered a beautiful funeral sermon, touching upon the high noble 
life of the departed one, and held out assurance to all that the deceased had lived 
a life in accordance with the doctrine of the church; that he had passed over to 
the other shore where sorrows are unknown and where he will receive the reward 
promised to those who serve His commandments. We shall miss his cheerful smile 
as we were accustomed to seeing him in everyday life. His hearty handshake was 
the evidence of his true friendship. (the rest of the obituary is unreadable).