Last time I wrote about my Sullivans in England, I was looking for my great grandmother’s siblings. Hanna was in the US already living with family there (George and Ellen Wharton to be specific). I told you that I found Mary Ann and Michael living with Maurice and Catherine O’Brien in Vauxhall, and Timothy living in St. Vincent’s Home in Paddington, London.
I started digging into Timothy’s life, and I found a marriage license application in Cleveland, Ohio, USA on 12 Jan 1904. Timothy S Sullivan, age 34, born in England to Michael Sullivan and Mary Dunn, works as a bartender. He is marrying Minnie Springer, age 21, born in Ohio, and works as a restaurant keeper. Here is the document:
This certainly looks like my Timothy Sullivan, and it also looks like he just married his boss? So now I had to resubscribe to genealogybank.com, so, I could check the Cleveland Plain Dealer for newspaper articles.
The first one I found just listed recent marriages license applications, then I found this:
This was interesting. I don’t know how long Tim had known MRS York, or why she was so enamored with him, but this is only six months after he was married. About five years later, I found this article:
The last entry lists the death of Timothy Sullivan, on 8 Feb 1909. A little more digging, finds an entry in findagrave.com. Whoever created the memorial added Tim’s death certificate:
His date of birth is listed as 20 Dec 1869 in England, marital status is married, parents names are listed as Michael Sullivan and Mary Ann Dunn, cause of death is pulmonary phthisis, AKA tuberculosis, and the informant is listed as his wife, Minnie Sullivan. He is buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.
The reason I told you that the informant is listed as Minnie Sullivan, his wife, is because 17 days after he dies, Minnie remarries. On 25 Feb 1909, Minnie marries a man named Charles Addis in Cleveland. This marriage lasts about twice as long as her marriage to Tim, and ends with her death 10 Oct 1920. I did not find an obit or a death certificate, but there is a memorial on Findagrave.com. She is buried in the same cemetery as Tim.
