Patrick Henry McEvoy

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Patrick Henry McEvoy

Date of Birth: 9 May 1848

Born In: Austrailia

Age: 75

Occupation: 

Marital Status: Married

Died: 21 Aug 1923

Cause of Death: Run over by an automobile

Death Location: Oakland

Burial Plot: K28

FindaGrave ID: 6542683

Patrick Henry McEvoy

Obituary

Patrick Henry McEvoy was born in Sidney, Australia on May 9th, 1848 and
migrated with his parents to California in the fall of 1849. After a six month sail aboard the ship “Monterey” they landed in San Francisco.
One year later they moved to the Carey Jones ranch, later known as the Horace Hawes ranch, now part of Greater Redwood City. From this place Patrick McEvoy attended the first school in Redwood City, a private one located on the northwest corner of what is now Dingee Park and finally
graduated from the old school building on the Island. He finished his education at Saint Mary’s college in San Francisco. As announced in the Redwood City Democrat, August 11,
1910. Patrick McEvoy somehow met Elizabeth (Lizzie) Lloyd in 1877 and one November 29, of that year he married her at the home of her father and mother in the town of Searsville. The service was conducted by Reverend H. K. Jewett and the supper was “A supper of grand triumph of gastronomy” as per the article in the Times-Gazette December 8, 1877.
Patrick and Elizabeth Lloyd McEvoy lived in Redwood City as Patrick served the County as a member of the Board of Supervisors. He started his political career in 1892 winning a close election; he ran a second time in 1896 and again won by a narrow margin. Patrick lost the election in 1900 but in 1904 he ran and won the largest margin of votes in San Mateo County history.
Patrick and Elizabeth moved from Redwood City to Menlo Park in 1920 and
were residing there when they began considering a move to Oakland. The couple went to Oakland August 1923; on 21 August they were crossing Broadway and Twelfth Streets when they were run over by a motor vehicle and killed. They were buried with their parents and children in plot 28K in Union Cemetery. Buried in plot 28K along with Patrick and Elizabeth McEvoy and William and Jane Lloyd are William J. McDonald, Lorraine V. McEvoy, William Henry McEvoy, Mary J. Townsend and Mildred J. Townsend.

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