BORN: 1856
DIED: 19230822
AGED: 67
DEATH LOCATION: Oakland
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CURRENT EVENTS:- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
- 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
- 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
- 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake
- 1912 The Titanic sank
- 1920 Prohibition begins
- 1920 Women get to vote
- 1920 The Roaring 20's
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OBITUARY ---------------P. H. MCEVOY AND LIZZIE LLOYD McEVOY
Victims of car accident
The sudden and untimely death of P.H. McEvoy and his wife this week at Oakland caused profound sorrow in this community in which both had passed the greater portion of their lives. They met their death in a distressing automobile accident. Mr & Mrs McEvoy, after attending a moving picture show Sunday night started for home. On crossing Broadway at Twelfth Street, Oakland, the couple was run over by an automobile driven by a young italian. Both received fatal injuries. Mr. McEvoy died on Tuesday and Mrs. McEvoy died the following morning. The bodies were brought to Redwood City and the funeral of the two pioneers took place yesterday morning from the Congregational church. A large cortege of friends followed the remains to Union Cemetery, where all that was mortal of two pioneers were laid to rest among former friends who had passed beyond the stars years before.
P.H. McEvoy had a long and varied career in San Mateo County. Born in Australia in 1848, he came with his parents to Monterey in 1849. He had three brothers, Philip. John and Frank McEvoy, three sterling, active men who cut a big swath in the early history of Redwood City.
Mr. McEvoy attended the first school opened in Redwood City in the latter fifties. A mammoth oak tree on the highway near Wellesley Park sheltered the pupils. It was the schoolroom. Later McEvoy attended St. Mary’s College.
Mr. McEvoy’s political career in the county began 1892, when he sought the office of supervisor of the third township. After a fierce battle McEvoy won the contest between John Stafford the republican and John MacBain the independent by only 12 votes. During his four years of office made a reputation as a road builder, but he also made enemies that when the next election rolled around he had another contest on his hands. He won this contest by a mere 26 votes. In 1904 he was defeated by MacBain. Four years later McEvoy came back to defeat MacBain. This was the last term he served.
Mr. and Mrs. McEvoy left Menlo Park about three years ago to reside in Oakland. Mrs. McEvoy known in her girlhood as Lizzie A. Lloyd, was the daughter of the late William Lloyd, who came to the town of Searsville, located at the junction of the Portola and Sandhill road and erected a sawmill. It was here she was born in 1855. The following children survive the couple, Mrs. Gilbert H. Smith, Mrs. L. Cokely, Mrs. D. Bell, Mrs. C. Ankele, Mrs. C. Maloney and Mervin McEvoy. Two other children predeceased their parents, William McEvoy and Stanley McEvoy.
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