I have some information from our Elizabeth Feisst, Qualtrough researcher supreme.
Medical: Died at St Alexis Hospital, Cleveland. age 26yrs.
Left wife Olive Kermode Qualtrough and daughter, Margaret Olive Qualtrough in Isle of Man when daughter was 2yrs old to go to the USA. He died in Cleveland Ohio not long after.
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Buried initially in Woodland Cemetery, Cleveland Ohio but in 1914, Mona's Relief Society purchased a plot in Highland Park Cemetery and people of Manx descent were exhumed and transferred to Highland Park. Joseph is re-buried in plot #868. and his name is listed on the Mona's Relief Society Monument.
Woodland Cemetery details - Section 5, Lot 14, Tier 3, Grave 4.. single grave plot.
Died at St Alexis Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, aged 26 yrs,
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From the City of Cleveland (Ohio, USA) Dept of Parks, Recreation & Properties :
Cemetery Highland Park
Address of deceased: St Alexis Hospital
Name of deceased: Joseph Qualtrough (33-1) #868
Age 26
Native of Manx
Cause of death: abcess of Brain
Date of death 17 June 1890
Date of burial 12 February 1914
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Email from Meg Turville-Heitz of Madison, Wisconsin, USA 4 March 2001
"Hi Elizabeth,
Thought I'd share something of a discovery... I found a diary! I thought it was a quotations book, since my grandmother was always writing down poetry or sections of essays that intrigued her. And the back half of the book is indeed full ot this. But the front half begins in June 1923 with her return home to the Isle of Man with her mother to visit prior to her wedding to my grandfather Harry (Henry Lane Turvill). This is what she writes of Cleveland Ohio when the train enroute to New York stopped:
"In the afternoon we went to find Highland Park Cemetery for that is where my father is buried. We found the grave or graves for there are 56 others resting there. The bodies had been exhumed and taken from Woodland Cemetery and taken to the Manx ground at Highland. The monument was sweet and yet massive. There was something that suggested strength about it and yet one could only htink of something sweet & simple. It was a beautiful moment and I laid there some sweet peas from Harry's garden. I had carried them from Madison, Wisconsin had worn them in my belt most of the way at times giving them something to drink whilst I was eating. They looked pretty and ewre alive and sweet when I laid them there."
Meg
Note Meg's grandmother is Margaret Olive Qualtrough, bn 1888 d/o Joseph Qualtrough and Olive Kermode
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QUALTROUGHS TO CLEVELAND, OHIO, USA.
The following article taken from the 'CLEVELAND LEADER' of Wednesday, 22 July 1896 is a tribute to the early Manx settlers in Ohio, when the city was but a village. In a small way, the Qualtrough family played their part.
"From the tiny Isle of Man came one of the most valuable ingredients of Cleveland's population. It was the contribution of the people which began in the village period (of Cleveland).
The number of Manxmen in and near Cleveland is estimated to be several thousand. The proportion of the entire population of the city is not large but it constitutes a quota as decided in its effects as it has been beneficial. They were noteworthy for the readiness with which they became identified with the interests and the order of their new home, rooting themselves quickly and firmly in the land to give more than they should draw from it. They were industrious, intelligent and strictly temperate.
Mans immigration began in the third decade of Cleveland history, while the place was yet a village of a few hundred people and has been continued to the present (1896). The honour of being the first Manxman to visit Cleveland lies between Dr Harrison and Kelly Gawne and the latter was at least the first to remain. He was with the British army in the war of 1812 and through some connection with a duel while in the army, was at New Orleans and he had occasion to come northward individually and reacted positively to Cleveland. Dr Harrison was a surgeon in the British navy and traveled extensively about the world. In one of his trips prior to 1820, he stopped at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River (on which Cleveland is built) and was greatly impressed with its future prospects by reason of its environment and strategic situation. His accounts of the locality on his return (to the Island) directed attention to it as a desirable goal for emigration and in 1824 one family came out, by mistake settling in Painsville, Ohio. William Kelly and his family, in 1826, came on and settled in Newburg township and he was shortly followed by William Caine. In the years 1827 and 1828 over a hundred families settled about what is the "South End", more particularly from Union Street southward. It came to be true that one could pass for five or six miles in a line through Newbutg town and have Manx farms on either hand all the way. Among those who came with the movement of 1827 were the families of Mr Kerruish, Rev Thomas Corlett and Thomas Quayle.
The Manx people of Cleveland were mostly Methodists in their denominational following and in the early days public services were held in the Gaelic language near Warrensville. One of the earliest preachers was a Methodist minister - Pastor Cannell - who exercised great influence and who held services in his own log house and later led in having a church building erected on the Corlett farm. He was 73 years old when he came to America. A large proportion of the membership of the old Wesleyan Methodist Church which existed on Euclid Avenue years ago were Manx people and many of them are members of the First Methodist Church.
A relief society has been in existence among the Cleveland Manxmen for the past forty-five years and some years ago possessed a literary department. Another organization is Mona's Mutual Benefit Society. Some of the representative Manxmen of Cleveland, besides those mentioned are W.S.Kerruish, a prominent attorney, James Christian, once a superintendent of the infirmary and well known as a local preacher, John Gill, a member of the Ohio Legislature, the late Judge Sherwood, M.G.Watterson, once county treasurer, the late T.J.Carran, a member of the Ohio Senate and W.R. Radcliffe, well known before his death for connection in various capacities with the city government"
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The Mona's Relief Society has a Monument in Highland Park Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio. From description, it appears six-sided with the Manx three-leg symbol prominently featured.
A list of deceased names appearing on the Monument and are all recognizably of Manx origin and one J. QUALTROUGH appears among the names. Who this J.Qualtrough would be is anyone's guess.
Another Qualtrough also settled in the Cleveland area with her husband and family.
She was Ann QUALTROUGH, daughter of William Qualtrough and Margaret DOUGHERTY of Andreas and Rushen Parishes in the Isle of Man. Anne Qualtrough married Thomas TAUBMAN in Rushen 23 December 1848. The couple moved to America where some of their children are listed as having been born. However the family must have returned to the Isle of Man regularly as each is listed as having been baptized in Rushen, Isle of Man
DJD