Gravestone from Kansas After 88 Years For Irish Immigrant
There’s a nice story in the Daily Courier of Prescott, Arizona about an Irish immigrant and longtime KC resident who after dying in Arizona almost 100 years ago received a headstone from a relative in Kansas 88 years later.
The story is told in 3 parts:
1) The death in 1912 of James Doak, described as a large Kansas City real-estate owner.
James Doak was born on May 15, 1848, in Glasgow, Scotland, to Irish parents who were fleeing Ireland’s potato famine. Life in Scotland was not satisfying to his parents, so they moved to the United States while James was a child. As a young man, he established himself in Kansas, marrying Miss Jennie Enochs in 1874
2) The adoption of Doak’s Arizona grave by a namesake in 1997 through the “Adopt a Pioneer Gravesite Project” of the Prescott Cemetery Association.
3) The arrival of relatives from Kansas, the first to ever visit Doak’s grave, and the permanent setting of a marker on his grave by his grandson.
Read the whole story in the Daily Courier
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