Remembering From The Past to Present

Born the 12th of November 1805 Michael Patrick Walsh was born in Charleston SC and was the son of a poor farmer. When we went to the library I wasn't able to discover much on him and later I found out why. Upon seeing the death card at the Charleston Library which was almost impossible to find Walsh died of consumption which was tuberculosis at that time. What I found to be interesting is that Walsh had a pervious condition which weakened him and his immune system. On his stone it is said he fought along time for many years to survive and he ended up dying. Walsh was never a land owner and was never married although he had a companion for many years.

The plaque on Walsh's stone was why I found him so interesting. It seemed that near death he had a complete turn around in life and accepted his faith and began to turn his life towards God. Also on his stone it mentions his companion which I could not find anywhere because he was never married. The library nor find a grave had anything about him having a wife. He also had a twin brother who became a preacher less than a year after his brothers death.

I have came to the conclusion that Michael Patrick Walsh could have possibly been mentally handicapped or could have had some form of birth defect that caused him to contract diseases way easier than most normal people. In the 1800s especially being from a poor family twin births were way more rare than today and if twins did happen one would usually not make it or be born with some kind of defect. Healthy twins were almost unheard of in this time period. I believe that Walsh was sickly and near death turned his life around and became a lot closer to God near his end days and his companion was either a very close friend or a girlfriend at the time of death.

I was going to try to contact Jerry J. Walsh which was a descendant in some way to Walsh but he had very recently died in Lancaster. Not much information could be found but what i could find helped me to draw an outline of Walsh's life and it was interesting learning about a man that completely turned his life around at death and affected so many people. He died June 3rd 1836 at the age of 31.