Cork - Field, Jeremiah December 12, 1888

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FIELD, JEREMIAH DECEMBER 12, 1888

Boston Daily Globe, Boston, MA  31 Dec. 1888
The body of Watchman Jeremiah Field of the National Dock
Company, who has been missing since the 12th inst., was
found floating in Lombard's Dock at East Boston yesterday
afternoon by Watchman Quigley. The body when found was in an
excellent state of preservation, and bore no signs of
violence. It was Field's duty to ring several boxes every
hour, and on the night of his disappearance he rang in the
last box almost immediately over where his body was found at
7:20 o'clock. Deceased came to this country 40 years ago
from County Cork, Ire., making his home in East Boston. For
the past 25 years he has worked for the National Dock
Company.  He was a man of exemplary habits. and had
accumulated considerable property.  The family have not
decided when the funeral will take place.