Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Killed By Carrying Gold. [ARTICLE]

Killed By Carrying Gold.

Mr. F. R. Carter, who is in the bi--1 cycle and sewing machine business, confirms the report that his wife, ; Ellen Carter, is now the heir to | nroperty worth about $500,000. Mrs. Carter is one of the seven daughters of Mrs. Bridget Egan, who died at Greensburg, Penn., about a l month ago. Mrs. Egan at the time I of her death was over ninety years of age, and was in many ways a remarkable woman. She belonged to a good old Irish family. Early in life she went to Pennsylvania with her husband, and for fifty years she lived in Greensburg. Her son, Frank Egan, was sent to college, and while pursuing his studies became acquainted with James G. Blaine. Young Egan studied law and settled in San Antonio, Texas, when that city was miles away from a railroad. The young man was prosperous, and soon owned a large amount of property in the Texas city. He was taken sick, and went home and died. His mother assumed control of the property he left. She went to San Antonio to look after her interests, and disposed of a part of the real estate. She received payment in gold for the property, and the problem with her was to get the gold home. She finally hit upon the plan of putting the metal into sacks, which were bound about her chest. In this way she succeeded in getting the money to her Pennsylvania home, but the weight of the metal upon her chest gave her heart disease, with which she was always troubled after making the journey. Mrs. Egan paid the taxes on the San Antonio property, and now that she is gone, her daughters are heirs to about twenty-five acres of land in the Texas city’. Besides this real estate, the old lady left property in Galveston, Texas; Washington, Greensburg, Penn., and in Amherst, Canada. Siie never said much about her holdings, and it was not until a short time before her death that the members of her family knew that she owned any property in Canada. To all of Mr. Egan’s daughters were afforded excellent opportunities for good education, and some of them became expert linguists.