Joseph Andrew Kearney, ^

1878 - 1944  (66 years)

• Name	Joseph Andrew Kearney  [1]
  Suffix	^
  Birth	14 May 1878	Ennistymon, Clare, Ireland   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	29 Jun 1944	Brookhaven, Suffolk (then the east riding of Yorkshire), NY   [1, 3, 4]
  	Cause: CAUS: result of injuries sustained on 21 January 1944 from a motor vehicle accident
  Burial	3 Jul 1944	Brookhaven (Oaklawn Cemetery), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY   [1, 3]
  Person ID	I16346	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Patrick Kearney,   b. 1841, Co Clare d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Catherine O'Brien,   b. 1857, Co Clare d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	6 Feb 1869	, Kane, Illinois
  Family ID	F6949	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Karney,   b. 1880, Ireland (Irish Free State) d. 1962 (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	Y  [1]
  Children	1. Thomas J Karney,   b. 1910, Massachusetts d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F6948	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 May 2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S10] Oaklawn Cemetery, Hamlet of Brookhaven, Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, NY (includes gravestones and cemetery association records), Lot 024. [S499] Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D, Census Place: Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York; Roll: T627_2784; Page: 1A; Enumeration District: 52-59. [S49] Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance, 20 Medford Ave, Patchogue, NY), 13 Jul 1944, p. 2. Joseph Andrew Kearney, age 64, died at his home on Pine street, Brookhaven, on Thursday, June 29, as the result of injuries sustained January 21, when his car skidded and hit a tree on Montauk highway, Brookhaven, while carrying mail from Brookhaven post office to the Brookhaven railroad station. Mr. Kearney was born in County Clare, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1902. He had resided in Brookhaven for nine years, during which time he had been employed as a mail carrier. He previously lived in various parts of Long Island, since 1929, being employed as foreman by Weston Brothers Construction company in building roads. Before coming to Long Island he resided in New York, and he was an inspector on the Third Avenue railroad. Also for some time he lived in Washington, D.C. A requiem mass was held Monday, July 3, at 10 a.m. in Mary Immaculate R.C. church, Bellport, with burial in Brookhaven cemetery. Mr. Kearney leaves his widow, Margaret Kearney, a sister, Mrs. Michael Gillespie of Brookhaven, and a brother, Patrick Kearney of New York. He was a member of the Brookhaven Democratic club. [S49] Long Island Advance (Long Island Advance, 20 Medford Ave, Patchogue, NY), 27 Jan 1944, p. 4. While Joseph Kearney of Brookhaven, was driving the mail between the postoffice and the railroad station in that village Friday morning, the car skidded on the ice and struck a tree. Mr. Kearney sustained a fractue of the leg and of the nose, cuts and bruises. He is now recovering at Mather Memorial hospital, Port Jefferson, where he was taken in the Brookhaven ambulance.