Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1878 — A Mother’s Mournful Death. [ARTICLE]

A Mother’s Mournful Death.

The closing ’pages of East Lynne, wherein the novelist aptly pictures the sad finish of the wasted and blackened life of a woman, among her children, almost find a parallel in the death of Mrs. Kate Moynahan, on the West Side, last night. There is one difference, and an important one, namely, the causes leading to the separation of mother and children are widely dissimilar. In the case of the mother depicted by the novelist it was crime, in the present case it was a vice—intemperance. Mrs. Kate Moynajian was 38 years old, and the mother of three children. Awhile back her husband, James, after years of useless pleading, was compelled to apply for a divorce from the mother of his children, owing to her uncontrollable passion for strong drink. The decree was granted, and the pair went various ways, the father being awarded the custody of the children. Perhaps it was thought by the dissevered pair that they would never meet again, but the mother’s love for her children was such that, after a brief absence, she souerht the husband she had sinned against, and begged one boon, that she might be allowed to call and see the little ones at intervals. The request was granted, and she called at. times at their home, 222 Aberdeen street, and spent an hour with the dear ones. It was noticed that her spells of drinking .were becoming less, and the possibilities of a brighter future began to glimmer. But that dream is over now. Between 6 and 7 o’clock last evening Mrs. Moynahan went to the home, and, after being there a brief while, sadly conversing with and weeping over her little ones, she fell back in her chair dead.— Chicago