A Biographical Sketch
1908 Fayette Chronicle
24 July 1908, Vol. XLI, No. 43
John Aldridge Limerick died on July
12, 1908 at his home in Rodney, MS and burial at the Oakland College
Cemetery adjoining the grounds of the Alcorn A&M College by the
Masonic fraternity. He was born on Dec. 15, 1833 at Tuscambia, AL
and was 74-years old. His father was Thomas Limerick of Colerain,
Ireland and his mother was Elizabeth Williams of Virginia and was
one of nine children. His father moved from Tuscambia, AL to New
Orleans, LA, in business with his brother George Limerick who
remained in Tuscambia. The second wife of his father was Ann Aldrich
of Tuscambia.
He moved to Rodney in 1857 and embarked in the drug business. He was exempt from military service in the Confederate Army owing to the loss of one eye. He never owned a slave in his life and his father owned only one, his children's nurse, Frances who was freed in 1843 upon condition she would go to Liberia as a missionary, which she did. When a grown woman she married a missionary and their son was sent back from Liberia, through Mr. Limerick's step-mother and educated at Tuskegee Institute.
One May 7, 1861, he was married to Miss Irene Stuart, the second daughter of Moreau Stuart, a planter of Jefferson Co., MS at the home of her widowed mother in Rodney. Their children: Mrs. McRae of Vicksburg, whose son is Limerick McRae; Dr. Limerick, deceased of Vicksburg; John A. Limerick, Jr. of Natchez who has three children; Mrs. Robt. Lee Beck of Shubuta who has two children; Dr. Victor Limerick of New York City; and Mrs. Dunbar Holder of Fayette who has one child.